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.
- March 8, 2018
HHS Approves Sec. 1115 Waiver in Arkansas: Effects on People with Disabilities
David MachledtThe "Arkansas Works," Medicaid waiver project approved by Trump's HHS, if implemented, will block thousands of low-income people living…
- March 8, 2018
Arkansas’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara Youdelman and Rachel HoltzmanThe so-called "Arkansas Works" Medicaid waiver scheme recently approved by Trump's HHS is not only legally suspect, but will…
- March 6, 2018
Arkansas’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara YoudelmanOn March 5, 2018 HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Arkansas. The approved project is effectively a…
- March 6, 2018
HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver in Arkansas: Effects on People with Disabilities
David MachledtOn March 5, 2018 HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Arkansas. The approved project is effectively a…
- March 6, 2018
HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver Project in Arkansas
David MachledtTrump's HHS is pushing states like Arkansas to alter their Medicaid programs in legally suspect ways, such as adding…
- February 22, 2018
NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis
dfitzgeraldThe National Health Law Program in comments to the Senate Finance Committee urges lawmakers to support Medicaid and its…
- February 15, 2018
State Medicaid Buy-Ins: Implications for Low-Income Enrollees
Jennifer Lav and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoWith the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress constantly looking for ways to undermine Medicaid and destroy Medicaid Expansion, several…
- February 12, 2018
The Personal Stories of Those Affected by Kentucky’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid Waivers
Mara YoudelmanNational Health Law Program Managing Attorney of the D.C. office Mara Youdelman details how Kentucky's Sec. 1115 Medicaid waivers…
- February 3, 2018
HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver Project in Indiana
David MachledtPresident Trump's HHS on Feb. 2 approved an extension of Indiana's controversial Medicaid waiver project, which includes even more…
- February 1, 2018
HHS Approves 1115 Waiver in Indiana – Harming Medicaid Enrollees
dfitzgeraldEarlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Indiana. The approved project is effectively a cut that…
- February 1, 2018
Section 1115 Waiver in Indiana: Effects on People with Disabilities
David MachledtEarlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Indiana. The approved project is effectively a cut that…
- February 1, 2018
Indiana’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara YoudelmanEarlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Indiana. The approved project is effectively a cut that…
- January 26, 2018
Sec. 1115 Waiver Tracking Chart
Sarah GrusinSec. 1115 of the Social Security Act allows the Secretary of HHS to waive some requirements of the Medicaid…
- January 24, 2018
Summary of Lawsuit Filed Against HHS Approval of Kentucky Waivers
Leo Cuello, Jane Perkins, and Catherine McKeeOn January 12, 2018 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved numerous section 1115 waivers in Kentucky…
- January 24, 2018
Stewart v. Hargan, Lawsuit Challenging Kentucky Medicaid Waiver Project
dfitzgeraldRepresenting 15 Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), the Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KEJC), and…
- January 12, 2018
Harmful Section 1115 Waiver in Kentucky: Effects on People with Disabilities
David MachledtEarlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Kentucky. The approved project is effectively a cut that…
- January 12, 2018
HHS Approves 1115 Waiver in Kentucky – Harming Medicaid Enrollees Who Need Reproductive Health Services
dfitzgeraldEarlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Kentucky. The approved project is effectively a cut that…
- January 12, 2018
Kentucky’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver and Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara YoudelmanEarlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Kentucky. The approved project is effectively a cut that…
- January 11, 2018
NHeLP Letter to CMS Regarding Work Requirements
Jane PerkinsIn an unprecedented move, HHS issued a letter announcing its intention to approve state requests to impose work requirements…
- December 13, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Massachusetts’ Amended Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane PerkinsIn comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services (HHS), NHeLP urges it to reject Massachusetts'…