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 29, 2015
Q&A: CMS Guidance on EPSDT Services for Children with ASD in Medicaid
Andy DiAntonioUnder longstanding Medicaid law, the state Medicaid agency must cover particular treatments "including intensive behavioral services" if they are…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- November 18, 2014
EPSDT – A Guide for States: Coverage in the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents
External Source and Andy DiAntonioThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) go-to resource for anyone interested in improving child health. The Guide was…
- October 27, 2014
CMS’s guidance on EPSDT Services for Children with ASD
Andy DiAntonioIn July, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance clarifying that evidence-based treatments for children…
- October 16, 2014
Issue Brief: Update on Private Enforcement of the Medicaid Act
Jane PerkinsOver the years, Medicaid beneficiaries have asserted claims under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and 42 U.S.C.…
- October 14, 2014
Health Advocate: EPSDT Screening: Including Sexuality Education in Health Education
Andy DiAntonioUnder Medicaid and some Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIP), youth are eligible to receive the Early and Periodic Screening,…
- July 2, 2014
Sexuality Education in Health Care Delivery for Medicaid and CHIP-Eligible Youth
Jamille Fields and Andy DiAntonioThis issue brief discusses the health education component of the EPSDT medical screens required for Medicaid and some CHIP-eligible…
- 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…
- May 5, 2014
Manual: Toward a Healthy Future: Medicaid EPSDT Services for Poor Children
Jane Perkins and Sarah SomersTimely screening examinations and necessary medical treatment are needed to maintain and improve children's health. Lower-income children are at…
- May 2, 2014
Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment – Annotated Federal Document
Jane PerkinsThis memorandum updates an August 18, 1993 memo from the National Health Law Program that annotated EPSDT-related transmittals issued…
- April 3, 2014
Q&A: EPSDT Coverage of Nutrition Services
Jane PerkinsQ&A Fact Sheet on EPSDT coverage of nutrition selection. EPSDT is a mandatory Medicaid service for children and youth under…
- April 3, 2014
Fact Sheet: Medicaid EPSDT Case Trends and Docket
Jane PerkinsThe Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) provisions are among the most specific in the Medicaid Act.…
- March 20, 2014
NHeLP Matters – March 2014
Andy DiAntonioSummary of the recent accomplishments of NHeLP, including a win for Missouri's navigators, health reform implementation and defending women's…
- February 3, 2014
Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
Elizabeth EdwardsThis issue brief discusses the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and the final regulations for the…
