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May 16, 2023
Helping Those on HCBS Waiting Lists: Positive Impacts of the ACA
Elizabeth Edwards, Dania Douglas, and Michelle Yiu Issue Brief
Expanded services and coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its Medicaid expansion provide states opportunities to decrease waiting lists for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) and generally increase access to services for people with disabilities. HCBS programs offer states a great degree of flexibility to design…
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May 15, 2023
“Unfit” to work? How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities
David Machledt Issue Brief, Fact Sheet
New proposals to impose harsh work requirements in the Medicaid program will cause people with disabilities to lose Medicaid coverage. This brief shows how Medicaid already supports employment opportunities for people with disabilities seeking to work -- supports that work requirements may undermine. It provides evidence showing that exemption…
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May 3, 2023
NHeLP Summary of Proposed Access and Managed Care Rules
Sarah Somers Fact Sheet
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released two proposed rules intended to improve access to care, quality and health outcomes, and address health equity issues. The first, Medicaid Program: Ensuring Access to Services (Access Rule), addresses in Medicaid fee-for-service, managed care, and HCBS program. The…
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April 20, 2023
AMICUS: J.R. v. Horizon NJ Health, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division
Litigation Team Cases
J.R. is a young child who requires nursing services and appealed a significant reduction in her Medicaid nursing services that was based on the results of a secret scoring tool and care guidelines. The notice provided to J.R. reducing their services only provided the end result of the tool…
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April 17, 2023
What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?
Wayne Turner Issue Brief, Fact Sheet
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, and the implementation of Medicaid expansions and Marketplaces in 2014, the U.S. significantly expanded access to health insurance coverage. Architects of the ACA rightly viewed Medicaid as an essential piece of the universal coverage puzzle. Indeed, Medicaid is…
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March 16, 2023
Protect Medicaid Funding series (2023)
Michelle Yiu, Emma Parker-Newton, David Machledt, Amy Chen, Madeline Morcelle, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Catherine McKee, Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Charly Gilfoil Fact Sheet
A 2024 update of this series can be found here. In an updated series of fact sheets called Protect Medicaid Funding, NHeLP provides succinct analysis of the policy proposals that if enacted would jeopardize the health and financial security of the tens of millions of low-income individuals who depend…
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Helping Those on HCBS Waiting Lists: Positive Impacts of the ACA

“Unfit” to work? How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities

NHeLP Summary of Proposed Access and Managed Care Rules

AMICUS: J.R. v. Horizon NJ Health, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division

Home and Community Based Services Archive

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Helping Those on HCBS Waiting Lists: Positive Impacts of the ACA

“Unfit” to work? How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities

NHeLP Summary of Proposed Access and Managed Care Rules

AMICUS: J.R. v. Horizon NJ Health, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division

What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?

Protect Medicaid Funding series (2023)