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August 29, 2023
Resources for California Foster Youth: Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health Medi-Cal Services
Carly Myers, Jasmine Young, T. Nancy Lam, and Amy Chen Consumer Brochure, Fact Sheet, Toolkit
Current and former foster youth in the Medi-Cal program have access to a broad array of reproductive, sexual, and mental health services. Working with the National Center for Youth Law, the National Health Law Program has developed a suite of infographics and factsheets aimed at helping foster youth better understand…
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August 21, 2023
An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)
Priscilla Huang, Madeline Morcelle, and Amy Chen Health Advocate, Guide
In 2019, NHeLP published the 2nd Edition of An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (“Guide”). The Guide is designed to familiarize readers with the basics of the Medicaid program and highlight features that support reproductive and sexual health. Since the Guide was first…
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August 3, 2023
Aligning Pregnancy-Related Medicaid Coverage Extensions and Medicaid Doula Coverage to Improve Maternal Health
Natasha Rappazzo* and Amy Chen Issue Brief
Medicaid plays a crucial role in ensuring access to care during and after pregnancy. States can help alleviate maternal mortality and severe morbidity by putting in place both Medicaid pregnancy related extensions and Medicaid coverage for doula care. This issue brief shares an update of current state implementation efforts…
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May 9, 2023
Women’s Health Defense Table Letter to Congressional Leadership Opposing Medicaid Work Requirements
Madeline Morcelle Letter
On May 9th, 2023, more than fifty organizational members of the Women's Health Defense Table (WHDT)* and national allies sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to exclude Medicaid work requirements and other program cuts from any debt ceiling or budget negotiations or legislation. Such changes would result…
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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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April 4, 2023
NHeLP Comments on Coverage of Contraceptive Services Under the Affordable Care Act
Liz McCaman Taylor Comments
Section 2713(a)(4) of the Public Health Service Act, and its implementing regulations, make access to contraception possible by ensuring that health plans in the individual and small group markets adequately cover contraception without cost-sharing—cost-sharing that would otherwise reduce use of this necessary service. In our comments, NHeLP strongly supports…
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Resources for California Foster Youth: Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health Medi-Cal Services

An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)

Women’s Health Defense Table Letter to Congressional Leadership Opposing Medicaid Work Requirements

Women's Health Archive

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Resources for California Foster Youth: Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health Medi-Cal Services

An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)

Aligning Pregnancy-Related Medicaid Coverage Extensions and Medicaid Doula Coverage to Improve Maternal Health

Women’s Health Defense Table Letter to Congressional Leadership Opposing Medicaid Work Requirements

What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?

NHeLP Comments on Coverage of Contraceptive Services Under the Affordable Care Act