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.
- August 19, 2022
NHeLP Letter to CCIIO Director, Ellen Montz – Re: Request for Modifications to the Federal Prescription Drug and Maternity Care Essential Health Benefit Standards
Wayne Turner, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, and Alexis Robles-FradetDespite improvements in coverage of Essential Health Benefits (EHB) since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, significant gaps…
- July 28, 2022
Essential Health Benefits: Best Practices in Benchmark Selection
Wayne Turner and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a comprehensive set of ten Essential Health Benefits (EHB) that most health plans…
- June 9, 2022
NHeLP Comments on Data Collection to Support Eligibility Determinations for Insurance Affordability Programs and Enrollment through Health Insurance Marketplaces, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Program Agencies
Charly GilfoilNHeLP submitted comments asking CMS to add expanded demographic questions to the Healthcare.gov application. The Marketplace Application should capture…
- June 7, 2022
NHeLP Comments on Fixing the Family Glitch
Dania DouglasIRS has proposed a rule that would help improve access to health coverage by correcting the Affordable Care Act's…
- 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…
- February 11, 2022
NHeLP letter to HHS Sec. Becerra – Re: Advancing Health Equity Through Essential Health Benefits
Wayne Turner, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, and Fabiola CarriónThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a comprehensive set of ten Essential Health Benefits (EHB) that most health plans…
- January 27, 2022
NHeLP Comments on Georgia Section 1332 State Innovation Waiver
Mara YoudelmanNHeLP submitted comments during the reopened comment period regarding Georgia's Section 1332 State Innovation Waiver. NHeLP recommends that HHS…
- January 27, 2022
NHeLP Comments on 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Proposed Rule
Mara Youdelman, Dania Douglas, Wayne Turner, David Machledt, Cathren Cohen, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Abigail Coursolle, Alicia Emanuel, Elizabeth Edwards, and Charly GilfoilNHeLP submitted comments on a vareity of topics addressed in the annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters proposed…
- December 16, 2021
NHeLP Comments on HHS SUNSET Repeal Rule
Dania Douglas and Wayne TurnerIn the HHS SUNSET final rule, HHS sought to retroactively impose a mandatory expiration date on an estimated 18,000…
- December 9, 2021
Contraceptive Equity Primers
Liz McCaman TaylorState Contraceptive Equity laws can play a critical role in filling the remaining gaps from the Affordable Care Act,…
- December 8, 2021
NHeLP Comments on the No Surprises Act Interim Final Rule, Part 2
Skyler RoselliniIn December 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act; a federal effort to protect people from surprise medical bills.…
- December 7, 2021
Model Contraceptive Equity Act: Legislative Language and Issue Brief
Liz McCaman TaylorUPDATED - December 2021. Contraceptive Equity is a policy framework under which contraceptive care is easily accessible and covered…
- December 6, 2021
Q&A: State Contraceptive Equity Laws
Liz McCaman TaylorThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most health insurance plans to provide coverage for a broad range of women’s…
- November 22, 2021
NHeLP Comments on Repeal of the “Good Guidance” Rule
Wayne Turner and Dania DouglasGuidance documents are a valuable tool that allows agencies to clarify policy issues and explain ambiguities raised by the…
- November 2, 2021
Amicus brief from National Health Law Program in CVS v. Doe
Elizabeth Edwards and Wayne TurnerIn CVS v. Doe, individuals living with HIV challenge a decision by their health insurers to require access to…
- September 8, 2021
NHeLP Letter to Congressional Leadership on HCBS and Coverage Gap
Elizabeth G. Taylor, Jennifer Lav, Madeline Morcelle, David Machledt, Mara Youdelman, and Dania DouglasAs the Senate and House move forward on landmark Medicaid legislation, the National Health Law Program urges Congressional leaders…
- August 20, 2021
NHeLP comments on Updating Payment Parameters Rule
Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Fabiola CarriónIn the Updating Payment Parameters Rule (UPP Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes several important changes…
- June 28, 2021
Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result
Madeline MorcelleExpanding Medicaid is an urgent moral, anti-racist, health equity, reproductive justice, and economic imperative. Yet today, policymakers in twelve…
- December 23, 2020
Comments to Georgia 1332 Application
Leonardo CuelloNHeLP comments to GA 1332 application attempting to privatize Marketplace.
- December 23, 2020
Comments to 1332 Guidance (2018)
Leonardo CuelloComments to 2018 CMS Guidance Weakening 1332 Standards.