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July 20, 2020
NHeLP comments on Medicaid Prescrption Drug Rebate Program and Value- based Purchasing Proposed Rulemaking
Wayne Turner, Liz McCaman Taylor, Madeline Morcelle, and Cathren Cohen Comments
In a proposed rule, CMS seeks to expand value-based purchasing arrangements for prescription drugs in commercial plans and the Medicaid program. However, the proposed changes offer a cost-containment strategy with no safeguards to ensure that Medicaid enrollees can continue to access needed outpatient prescription drugs. NHeLP comments warn against“cost…
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July 16, 2020
Amicus: Bellin v. Zucker, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Litigation Team Court Document, Cases
The National Health Law Program, along with the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Justice in Aging, filed this brief in the Second Circuit in support of the plaintiff. Rosalind Bellin receives Medicaid in New York and needs in-home long term care services to live in her home safely. She…
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July 7, 2020
Letter Calls on Seema Verma to Reject Oklahoma’s Section 1115 Request Following Ballot Initiative
Jane Perkins Letter
In a letter to the Center on Medicare & Medicaid Services, the National Health Law Program requested that Administrator Verma reject Oklahoma's SoonerCare 2.0 application. The proposed 1115 waiver project would violate recent changes to Oklahoma law following the June 30, 2020 ballot initiative that amended the Oklahoma Constitution…
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June 19, 2020
HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care
Wayne Turner, Mara Youdelman, and Madeline Morcelle Issue Brief, Fact Sheet
As part of its ongoing attacks on health care and civil rights, the Trump administration recently finalized drastic changes to regulations implementing Section 1557, the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination provision. Section 1557 provides important protections against discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin (including language access), sex,…
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June 5, 2020
Top Ten List: Maintenance of Effort Requirement Compliance
Hannah Eichner Fact Sheet
New federal law provides a significant increase in Medicaid funding for states. In exchange, states must comply with a maintenance of effort requirement, which helps ensure individuals are able to get and stay covered during the crisis. This fact sheet highlights ten actions advocates can take to make sure the maintenance…
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May 27, 2020
Top Ten List: Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access in the Time of COVID-19
Madeline Morcelle and Priscilla Huang Fact Sheet
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating pervasive obstacles to sexual health, family planning, prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum, and abortion care in the U.S. It is also illuminating how overlapping systems of oppression unjustly mar the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and people of…
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NHeLP comments on Medicaid Prescrption Drug Rebate Program and Value- based Purchasing Proposed Rulemaking

Amicus: Bellin v. Zucker, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Letter Calls on Seema Verma to Reject Oklahoma’s Section 1115 Request Following Ballot Initiative

HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care

Top Ten List: Maintenance of Effort Requirement Compliance

Top Ten List: Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access in the Time of COVID-19