Each year, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) spends the month of April celebrating the lifesaving program that is Medicaid. Medicaid provides quality health care to more than 80 million people in the nation. Below is a curated selection or resources and cases we believe highlight our advocacy over the past year.
- June 28, 2023
California Abortion Coverage in Medi-Cal and Private Insurance
Jasmine Young, Amy Chen, and Fabiola Carrión*Co-written with Xochitl Lopez-Ayala (Policy Advocacy Coordinator at ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE) Access to comprehensive health care, which includes abortion…
- May 30, 2023
Trends in State Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding Plans
Cassandra LaRoseAs part of the Medicaid continuous coverage unwinding, states were required to create plans to describe how they will…
- April 5, 2023
FAQ: Insurance Coverage for Pharmacy-Dispensed Medication Abortion
Cat Duffy and Liz McCaman TaylorThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new changes to the mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)…
- March 16, 2023
Protect Medicaid Funding series
Michelle Yiu, Emma Parker-Newton, David Machledt, Amy Chen, Madeline Morcelle, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Catherine McKee, Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Charly GilfoilIn an updated series of fact sheets called Protect Medicaid Funding, NHeLP provides succinct analysis of the policy proposals…
- March 7, 2023
National Health Law Program Comments on HHS’s Proposed Changes to Health Care Refusal Regulations
Madeline Morcelle, Charly Gilfoil, Cat Duffy, and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoThe National Health Law Program submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) Notice of Proposed…
- January 31, 2023
Reforming Medicaid Coverage Toward Reproductive Justice
Madeline MorcelleThis article appeared in Volume 48, Issue 2–3 of the American Journal of Law & Medicine, North America’s leading…
- December 13, 2022
Report: Progress and Gaps in Medicaid Coverage of Telehealth Medication Abortion Services in Six States
Cat DuffyThis report examines the Medicaid telehealth medication abortion (TMAB) coverage policies in six key states (Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine,…
- November 1, 2022
NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information: Promoting Efficiency, Reducing Burden, and Advancing Equity within CMS Programs
Charly GilfoilNHeLP submitted comments to CMS in response to a request for information on access to care, health equity, and…
- May 16, 2022
Medicaid Coverage of Advanced Practice Prescribing for Reproductive & Sexual Health Medications
Liz McCaman Taylor and Cathren CohenAdvanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care practitioners, other than physicians, who may practice independently and bill directly…
- May 3, 2022
Scope of Practice and Medicaid: State Flexibility to Cover Advanced Practice Care
Liz McCaman Taylor and Cathren CohenAdvanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care practitioners, other than physicians, who may practice independently and bill directly…
- May 2, 2022
NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information on Access to Coverage and Care in Medicaid & CHIP
Charly Gilfoil, Cat Duffy, Abigail Coursolle, Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Jennifer Lav, Elizabeth Edwards, and David MachledtThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to develop and implement a…
- April 27, 2022
Abortion Coverage Under Medicaid
Fabiola Carrión, Cat Duffy, and Courtney MendozaThis Q&A provides an overview of how the federal government and states cover abortion under Medicaid. The Q&A’s Appendix…
- April 4, 2022
Asynchronous telehealth in states that cover abortions for Medicaid beneficiaries
Fabiola Carrión*Fact sheet was co-written with legal intern Allison Berquist In this fact sheet, NHeLP identifies and analyzes how the…
- June 7, 2021
Medicaid Coverage of Medication Abortion Delivered via Telehealth
Fabiola Carrión, Madeline Morcelle, and Alexis Robles-FradetThe COVID-19 public health emergency has shown the need to increase access to health services through telehealth, including for…
- April 8, 2021
Post-Abortion Contraceptive Coverage in Medicaid
Fabiola Carrión and Liz McCaman TaylorThis issue brief discusses how Medicaid allows coverage of family planning services during an abortion visit that is not…
- March 25, 2021
Fostering Equitable Access to Abortion Coverage: Reversing the Hyde Amendment
Madeline MorcelleThe future of access to abortion services is at a crossroads. The Biden-Harris administration and 117th Congress could commit…
- December 8, 2020
Testimony on the Hyde Amendment before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Madeline MorcelleThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP) submitted this testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Labor, Health…
- November 30, 2020
Abortion is Health Care
Alexis Robles-FradetThe National Health Law Program believes that abortion is health care and should be covered and accessible like any…
- November 10, 2020
California Policy Needs During COVID and Beyond: Reproductive and Sexual Health
Amy ChenCOVID-19 has changed the landscape for reproductive and sexual health care services, delivery, and access. As has been the…
- July 16, 2020
June Medical Services v. Russo and the Work that Remains for Underserved Populations
Fabiola Carrión and Abigail CoursolleOn June 29th, the Supreme Court ruled in June Medical Services vs. Russo that Louisiana’s admitting privileges law is…