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- April 22, 2016
Managed Care in California Series, Issue 7: Monitoring Access in the Medi-Cal Program
Read moreThe federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved a request by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to extend California's 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver, called the 2020 Demonstration, effective December 2015 through December 2020. The $6.2 billion demonstration project will fund several programs, including…
- April 20, 2016
Health Advocate: Section 1332 Waivers for State Innovation and Medicaid
Read moreIn December 2015, CMS provided guidance on section 1332 waivers and clarified the interactions between section 1332 and Medicaid. In this month's Health Advocate, we detail the "guardrails" for using section 1332 authority, the limits on combining 1332 and Medicaid waivers, and the potential impacts for Medicaid expansion. Ultimately,…
- April 12, 2016
CMS Highlights State Policies to Improve Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods
Read moreThe Maternal and Infant Health Initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Informational Bulletin highlighting state payment policies aimed at making long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods more available. This NHeLP Issue Brief provides an overview on barriers to access; promising state policies and practices; and further…
- March 31, 2016
Lessons from CA: HCBS Payments to Caregivers and MAGI
Read moreThis month's Lessons from California highlights an important state policy change to the treatment of payments received by in-home, individual care providers under the state's In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program. Wages received by IHSS caregivers who live with the recipient of those services will not be included in the…
- March 24, 2016
Amicus Brief: California v. Trump
Read moreThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP) filed on October 21, a "friend of the court" brief in federal court in California on behalf of Families USA, NHeLP, and 29 other health care and consumer advocacy groups, supporting a legal challenge to the Trump administration's latest effort to sabotage the…
- March 24, 2016
NHeLP Amicus Brief: Planned Parenthood v. Selig (8th Cir.)
Read moreBrief of the National Health Law Program, American Public Health Association, Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and Sexuality Education and Information Council of the U.S. (SEICUS) as amici…
