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August 10, 2018
Fact Sheet: Medicaid Demonstration Waivers & Reproductive Justice
Priscilla Huang, Candace Gibson, and dfitzgerald Fact Sheet
Medicaid is an important lifeline for the 25 million women enrolled in the program. Women of color, women with disabilities, single mothers, and women from other underserved populations disproportionately depend on Medicaid for affordable health care coverage. In this fact sheet, the National Health Law Program along with All* Above…
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August 3, 2018
Fact Sheet: California’s Medi-Cal “Protection of Choice for Family Planning Act”
Amy Chen and Priscilla Huang Fact Sheet
Medicaid is the largest source of public funding for family planning services, accounting for seventy-five percent of all public funds spent on contraceptive services and supplies. Since 1972, Medicaid enrollees seeking family planning services have enjoyed free choice of provider. In 2017, responding to fears that the current administration…
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August 3, 2018
Fact Sheet: Legal Issues in Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers
Jane Perkins Fact Sheet
Section 1115 waivers have been used over the history of the Medicaid program to implement demonstration projects designed to improve the delivery of medical assistance to low-income people. Over the last year, the Trump administration and a handful of states have begun to use Section 1115 in an effort…
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July 25, 2018
Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Preliminary Injunction Decision
dfitzgerald Court Document, Cases
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Wisconsin health officials from enforcing a sweeping ban on medically necessary care for Wisconsin's transgender Medicaid beneficiaries. Read the preliminary injunction decision in Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Earlier this year, the…
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June 13, 2018
Fast Facts: Stewart v. Azar Oral Argument
Jane Perkins and Mara Youdelman Issue Brief, Case Explainer
What you need to know about June 15 oral argument in the federal class action lawsuit from Kentuckians challenging the Trump administration's approval of an onerous Medicaid waiver scheme that includes burdensome work requirements, high premiums, lock outs, and elimination of retroactive health care coverage. Read National Health Law…
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May 25, 2018
NHeLP Urges HHS to Reject Plan to Weaken Medicaid Equal Access Provisions
dfitzgerald Comments
National Health Law Program in comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urges the rejection of a plan being pushed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to weaken Medicaid regulations intended to ensure that CMS is enforcing "access to covered services in…
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Fact Sheet: Medicaid Demonstration Waivers & Reproductive Justice

Fact Sheet: California’s Medi-Cal “Protection of Choice for Family Planning Act”

Fact Sheet: Legal Issues in Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers

Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Preliminary Injunction Decision

Fast Facts: Stewart v. Azar Oral Argument

NHeLP Urges HHS to Reject Plan to Weaken Medicaid Equal Access Provisions