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May 24, 2018
Groups File Class Action Against Calif. Over Care of Children with Disabilities
Sarah Somers Court Document
Representing children with disabilities, Disability Rights California, National Health Law Program and Western Center for Law and Poverty today filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against California's Medicaid agency (Medi-Cal) for failure to provide sufficient in-home nursing services. Medi-Cal's "deficient policies, practices, and procedures related to arrangement…
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May 18, 2018
AMICUS: United States v. California
dfitzgerald Court Document, Cases
The National Health Law Program filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of the organization, and 42 other legal health organizations, and human and civil rights advocates, and labor groups opposing the Trump administration's heavy-handed effort to overturn three California laws that provide vital protections for immigrants…
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March 26, 2018
FCC’s Proposed Rule on Promoting Telehealth in Rural Communities
Carli Suba Comments
In comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Health Law Program and Center for Rural Strategies urge the commission to restore net neutrality to ensure that "small, public, and not-for-profit health systems, clinics, community health centers, and other providers in rural areas can access the same broadband…
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March 6, 2018
Arkansas’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara Youdelman Issue Brief
On March 5, 2018 HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Arkansas. The approved project is effectively a cut that will worsen or eliminate access to Medicaid for low-income individuals. This proposal will have a significant detrimental impact on people of color, women, and people with disabilities. This…
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March 6, 2018
HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver in Arkansas: Effects on People with Disabilities
David Machledt Issue Brief
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February 22, 2018
NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis
dfitzgerald Comments
The National Health Law Program in comments to the Senate Finance Committee urges lawmakers to support Medicaid and its funding structure in efforts to address the opioid epidemic, which "now kills more individuals than HIV/AIDs did at the height of that epidemic in the 1990s." The National Health Law…
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Groups File Class Action Against Calif. Over Care of Children with Disabilities

AMICUS: United States v. California

FCC’s Proposed Rule on Promoting Telehealth in Rural Communities

Arkansas’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity

HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver in Arkansas: Effects on People with Disabilities

NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis