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 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 12, 2015
DRAFT 2016 Letter to Issuers in the Federally-Facilitated Marketplaces
dfitzgeraldNHeLP Comment letter on draft 2016 letter to issues in the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces.
- December 23, 2014
NHeLP Comments Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters
dfitzgeraldThe document includes NHeLP's comments to a proposed regulation from HHS, titled "Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters." The…
- 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…
- November 20, 2014
Lessons from CA: Marketplace Renewals
dfitzgeraldIn this month's Lessons from California, we review the annual renewal process for Covered California's (California's state marketplace) enrollees…
- November 14, 2014
Health Advocate: Open Enrollment 2 (OE2): What to Expect
Mara Youdelman and dfitzgeraldThe second open enrollment period begins Nov. 15, 2014. While we are leaps and bounds from the road bumps…
- November 12, 2014
Marketplace MAGI Webinar Part II – Household Composition
Wayne TurnerPart II in a two-part series on rules for determining a consumer's Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). MAGI applies…
- November 7, 2014
Marketplace MAGI Webinar Part I – Income
Wayne TurnerPart I of a two-part series on rules for determining a consumer's Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). MAGI applies…
- November 4, 2014
Due Process in Duals Demonstrations: A Closer Look at New York
dfitzgeraldNew York is one of several states working to better integrate care and services for individuals dually eligible for…
- November 3, 2014
Amicus Brief of AARP Foundation Litigation and NHeLP in Halbig v. Burwell
dfitzgeraldAmicus brief of AARP Foundation Litigation and NHeLP in Halbig v. Burwell defending the availability of the Affordable Care…
- November 3, 2014
Comments on Draft IRS Forms 1095 A-C
Wayne TurnerThe Affordable Care Act's individual shared responsibility provision requires individuals to have minimum essential health coverage (MEC), qualify for…
- October 30, 2014
Medicaid and Medicare: Aging, Access and Affordability
David MachledtAffordability is a cornerstone of any efficient and effective health care system. Discussions of healthcare affordability often center on…
- October 27, 2014
NHeLP Comments on IRS regulations for domestic violence survivors
Erin Armstrong and Wayne TurnerNHeLP provides the following comments on IRS Temporary and Proposed Rules allowing married persons who experience domestic abuse or…
- 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 27, 2014
2015 Pickle Amendment Chart
dfitzgeraldA Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment. Courtesy of Gordon Bonnyman, Tennessee Justice…
- 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 19, 2014
Health Advocate: Medicaid Managed Care: Modernized Federal Regulations are Long
Sarah SomersIn 1965, when the Medicaid program was created, American health care bore little resemblance to the complex system we…
- September 17, 2014
Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions, Issue 3
Abbi Coursolle and dfitzgeraldOur 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
dfitzgeraldOur new Medicaid Managed Care Model Provisions Series features our set of modernized model federal regulations. Each issue provides…