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.
- January 22, 2015
Order Granting Preliminary Injunction in Rivera v. Douglas
Andy DiAntonioJanuary 20 Alameda County Superior Court ruling that if California is unable to determine whether an applicant is eligible…
- 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 13, 2015
Amicus brief of the National Health Law Program in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center
Andy DiAntonioAmicus brief by NHeLP and advocates supporting the respondents and arguing that the history and purpose of the Medicaid…
- December 19, 2014
Lessons from CA: Ensuring Medi-Cal Plans Provide Services to Children
Andy DiAntonioIn this month's Lessons from California, we highlight how NHeLP worked to ensure that California's Medi-Cal managed care plans…
- December 18, 2014
NHeLP EPSDT Letter to California Department of Health Services
Andy DiAntonioThis letter urges California's Medicaid Agency to take action to instruct Medicaid Managed Care plans that they are required…
- 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
Andy DiAntonioWelcome to the year's final edition of NHeLP Matters. In the past 12 months, we have fought for the…
- December 4, 2014
Q&A: Abstention Update
Jane Perkins and Sarah SomersQ&A: Abtention Update This short issue brief discusses the latest developments in abstention cases affecting Medicaid beneficiaries, including a…
- November 10, 2014
NHeLP Letter to CMS re: PA State Plan Benefits
Leo Cuello and Jane PerkinsIn this letter to CMS NHeLP recommends that CMS not approve reductions to Pennsylvania's Medicaid state plan benefit pursuant…
- October 27, 2014
NHeLP Comments on Amendments to Arkansas’s Health Care Independence Program
David MachledtArkansas recently proposed amendments to its premium assistance Medicaid expansion demonstration, the Health Care Independence Program. These are NHeLP's…
- October 21, 2014
Issue Brief: Hearing Services for Children on Medicaid
Jane Perkins and Catherine McKeeHearing loss affects many low-income children in the United States. Despite the proliferation of hospital-based newborn hearing screening programs,…
- September 29, 2014
County Organized Health System Medi-Cal Plans
Andy DiAntonioIn certain counties, Medi-Cal managed care is operated by a single County Organized Health System (COHS). In COHS counties,…
- September 24, 2014
NHeLP Comments to Healthy Indiana Plan Renewal and Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 Section 1115 Demonstration Applications
Leo Cuello and Jane PerkinsComments to HHS regarding Indiana's HIP and HIP 2.0 section 1115 demonstrations to implement the Medicaid expansion. NHeLP's comments…
- September 17, 2014
Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions, Issue 4
Mara Youdelman and Elizabeth EdwardsOur new Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions Series features our set of modernized model federal regulations. Each issue provides…
- September 17, 2014
Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions, Issue 3
Abbi Coursolle and Andy DiAntonioOur new Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions Series features our set of modernized model federal regulations. Each issue provides…
- September 17, 2014
Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions, Issue 2
Andy DiAntonioOur new Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions Series features our set of modernized model federal regulations. Each issue provides…
- September 16, 2014
Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions, Issue 1
Sarah SomersOur new Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions Series features our set of modernized model federal regulations. Each issue breaks…
- August 29, 2014
Managed Care & Older Adults Series, Issue 1
Andy DiAntonioElderly African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to have lower incomes and poor health status and to live…
- August 29, 2014
Managed Care & Older Adults Series, Issue 2
Andy DiAntonioAs the Medicaid program has evolved to include a greater number of older adults and individuals with disabilities in…
- June 18, 2014
NHeLP Matters – June 2014
Andy DiAntonioSummary of the recent accomplishments of NHeLP, including protecting informed consent, stopping discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS and fighting…
