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.
- April 14, 2022
Statement for the Record to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “Communities in Need: Legislation to Support Mental Health and Well-Being.”
Jennifer Lav*Institutional Authors: National Health Law Program, Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Center for Public Representation,…
- April 6, 2022
Q&A: Recent EPSDT Cases
Jane Perkins and Amanda AveryThe Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment provisions are among the most specific in the Medicaid Act. This…
- February 8, 2022
Statement for the Record to the United States Senate Committee on Finance on Youth Mental Health
Jennifer LavNHeLP submitted a statement for the record to the Senate Finance Committee on approaches to improve coverage and services…
- February 1, 2022
Children’s Behavioral Health Mobile Response and Stabilization Services
Jennifer Lav and Kimberly LewisMobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS) is a specific kind of mobile crisis service and stabilization service for children…
- November 12, 2021
Comments to Senate Finance Committee on Improving Behavioral Health Care
Jennifer LavIn these comments, NHeLP offers policy options where additional legislation, oversight, or guidance would further the Senate Finance Committee’s…
- November 1, 2021
Comments: Utah Primary Care Network Extension Request
Catherine McKee, Jane Perkins, and Jennifer LavIn comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Health Law Program explains that the initial…
- November 1, 2021
Medicaid’s Gold Standard Coverage for Children and Youth: Past, Present, and Future
Jane Perkins and Sarah SomersThis article originally appeared in the "Loyola University Chicago School of Law: Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences."…
- September 30, 2021
Addressing Barriers to Behavioral Health Coverage for Low-Income Youth
Jennifer Lav, Abigail Coursolle, and Cathren CohenThis flip chart contains various scenarios and barriers that low-income youth with behavioral health conditions might face when trying…
- August 26, 2021
EPSDT Trends Fact Sheet 2015 – 2019
Daniel YoungThis Fact Sheet is a companion piece to the National Health Law Program’s publication, Children’s Health Under Medicaid. A…
- June 29, 2021
Children’s Health Under Medicaid A National Review of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services 2015 – 2019
Daniel Young, Zamir M. Brown, Sarah Somers, and Jane PerkinsThe Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment program requires each state to complete a reporting form provided…
- June 10, 2021
NHeLP AHRQ Comments
Elizabeth Edwards, David Machledt, Skyler Rosellini, and Liz McCaman TaylorIn these comments, NHeLP responds to a request for information from AHRQ regarding the use of clinical algorithms that…
- April 27, 2021
NHeLP Comments on New Mexico Centennial Care 2.0 SMI Amendment
Dania DouglasIn this application, New Mexico seeks to waive the Institutes for Mental Disease (IMD) exclusion, implement High Fidelity Wraparound…
- January 6, 2021
Meeting the Moment: Understanding EPSDT and Improving Implementation in California to Address Growing Mental Health Needs
Kimberly Lewis and Rachel Velcoff HultsChildren and youth across the country are facing an escalating mental health crisis. The events of 2020 have added…
- December 3, 2020
NHeLP Comments on HHS Regulations Rule (aka SUNSET Rule)
Wayne Turner and Dania DouglasIn the Regulations Rule, HHS seeks to retroactively impose a mandatory expiration date on an estimated 18,000 duly promulgated…
- October 13, 2020
Fact Sheet EPSDT Litigation Trends & Docket
Jane PerkinsThis Fact Sheet summarizes the Medicaid Act’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit. It then highlights…
- August 15, 2018
National Health Law Program Comments to HHS on Maine’s HIV/AIDS Waiver Project
Jane Perkins and Wayne TurnerNational Health Law Program in comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urges the agency to…
- August 3, 2017
Medicaid EPSDT Litigation Trends
Jane PerkinsLegal Director Jane Perkins explores litigation involving Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program. Perkins provides…
- May 12, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Children’s Health in California
Alicia EmanuelIn the first of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series, NHeLP Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk details the importance of…
- March 23, 2017
AHCA’s Block Grant Option and EPSDT
Jane Perkins and Mara YoudelmanIn an effort to win passage of the so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), House Republicans continue to add…
- March 15, 2017
Health Services in Schools: Medicaid and Special Education Services
Andy DiAntonioThis fact sheet provides information about health services for children, under age of 21, in schools. Many of the…
