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.
- July 24, 2015
Improving Coverage: Using State Law to Maximize Access to Family Planning and Abortion Services
Susan Berke Fogel and Catherine McKeeLaws and policies on coverage and access to family planning and abortion services vary significantly from state to state…
- January 22, 2015
Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions, Issue 5
Catherine McKee and dfitzgeraldOur new Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions Series features our set of modernized model federal regulations. Each issue provides…
- January 14, 2015
Health Advocate: Our New Year’s Resolutions
Susan Berke Fogel, Jane Perkins, and Mara YoudelmanThis edition of the Health Advocate previews what is ahead in the coming months including the continuing theme of Medicaid…
- January 7, 2015
Comments on Proposed Rule for Establishment of the Multi-State Plan Program
dfitzgeraldNHeLP's comments on the proposed rule for Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of the Multi-State Plan Program for the Affordable…
- December 16, 2014
Health Advocate: 2014 Litigation Round Up
Jane PerkinsMore than four years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law have passed, and yet litigation over…
- December 11, 2014
NHeLP Matters – December 2014
dfitzgeraldWelcome to the year's final edition of NHeLP Matters. In the past 12 months, we have fought for the…
- October 22, 2014
NHeLP Comments on Proposed Rulemaking for Coverage of Certain Services Under ACA
Deborah Reid and dfitzgeraldNHeLP is pleased to offer these comments on the proposed rule for Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the…
- August 4, 2014
Webinar: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby – Access to Care Implications
Susan Berke FogelWebinar focused on the impact on access to care post the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby…
- June 11, 2014
Background on Upcoming Supreme Court Decision-ACA’s Contraceptive Coverage
dfitzgeraldThe current round of Affordable Care Act litigation is dominated by cases challenging a requirement that most new health…
- July 23, 2013
Letter to the Judiciary Committee on H.R. 3, The No Taxpayer Funding for Abort
dfitzgeraldThe Honorable Lamar SmithChairman - Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of Representatives2138 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20514 RE:…
- July 23, 2013
Letter to the Sub-Committee on Health on H.R. 358, The Protect Life Act
dfitzgeraldThis letter expresses NHeLP's strong opposition to "The Protect Life Act" as it would impose dangerous and unprecedented restrictions…
- July 23, 2013
Indiana Law Threatens Medicaid Services UPDATED
dfitzgeraldDownload the document for full document text.
- July 23, 2013
Testimony Before Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Regarding Refusal Cl
dfitzgeraldFOR THE HEARING ENTITLED "LINES CROSSED: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. HAS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TRAMPLED ON…
- July 23, 2013
Health Care Refusals and Contraception: Undermining Quality Care
dfitzgeraldThis paper discusses how health care refusals or "conscience" clauses undermine medical standards of care and pose a risk…
- July 23, 2013
Q & A: Medicaid Coverage of Reproductive Health Services
Jane PerkinsWomen rely on the Medicaid program. Twelve percent of all women of child bearing age?over 7 million women?rely…
- July 23, 2013
NHeLP Comments Opposed to HHS Refusal Regulations (Sept. ’08)
dfitzgeraldSeptember 25, 2008 Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health and Science …
- July 23, 2013
Health Care Refusals: Undermining Quality Care for Women
Susan Berke FogelFor full publication text, download document. The executive summary to this report can be found here.
- July 23, 2013
New Mexico Supreme Court Requires Medicaid to Cover All Medically Necessary Abo
External SourceNM Supreme Court Requires Medicaid to Cover All Medically Necessary Abortions January 1999 The New Mexico…
- July 23, 2013
Access to Reproductive Health Services: A Checklist for Consumers and Advocates
dfitzgeraldIncreasingly, employers, private insurers, state Medicaid agencies and the federal Medicare program are contracting with hospitals and health…
- July 23, 2013
Protecting Reproductive Health Care for Low-Income Women
dfitzgeraldFor full publication text, download document.