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 23, 2013
Medicaid Managed Care Quality: HEDIS Measure Comparisons for Five States
Andy DiAntonioThis paper describes HEDIS quality measures and provides analysis of Medicaid managed care quality using these measures in five…
- July 23, 2013
EPSDT Update For Child Health Insurance and Medicaid Advocates
Andy DiAntonioNovember 20, 1997 Prepared by Jane Perkins, Lourdes Rivera, and Kristi Olson--National Health Law Program Abigail English…
- July 23, 2013
New Childhood Lead Poisoning Report Issued (Jan. ’99)
External SourceThe General Accounting Office has just issued another report that concludes that federal health programs are not effectively…
- July 23, 2013
Federal Pronouncements Mark Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
Andy DiAntonioThe Child Health Law and Policy Project of the National Health Law Program Prepared by:…
- July 23, 2013
Federal Court Orders California to Help Children in State Mental Hospitals
Andy DiAntonioFederal Court Orders California to Help Children in State Mental HospitalsFinal Order Issued in Emily Q. v. BontáMay 11,…
- July 23, 2013
Comments on Final SCHIP Regulations
Sarah SomersThese are comments on the final regulations implementing Title XXI of the Social Security Act. Title XXI, which authorizes…
- July 23, 2013
Fourth Circuit Allows Medicaid Case to Proceed
Andy DiAntonioOn May 9th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals became the first circuit court to decide a novel…
- July 23, 2013
Pennsylvania District Court Finds Medicaid Claims Uneneforceable under Gonzaga
Andy DiAntonioPennsylvania District Court Issues Mixed Decision in Medicaid Dental Case The Middle District of Pennsylvania has issued an important…
- July 23, 2013
Q & A: Are Children in Juvenile Detention Eligible for Medicaid?
Andy DiAntonioQuestion: A juvenile court judge who is concerned about health care services for children in state custody has…
- July 23, 2013
Q & A: Children’s Personal Care Services Under Medicaid
Andy DiAntonioQuestion: My client is a child on Medicaid with multiple physical disabilities who receives personal care services. Currently,…
