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.
- November 24, 2015
Health Advocate: Reproductive Health Data and Accountability Project
Andy DiAntonioThis month's Health Advocate details our Reproductive Health Data and Accountability Project, which, in collaboration with the Advancing New…
- October 20, 2015
Health Advocate: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Abbi Coursolle and Andy DiAntonioThis month's Health Advocate reviews the advocacy history that led up to guidance from the Centers for Medicare &…
- September 23, 2015
Health Advocate: Nondiscrimination and the ACA
Mara YoudelmanIn this month's Health Advocate, NHeLP provides an overview of the proposed regulation implementing Section 1557 of the ACA.…
- August 31, 2015
Step Guide to Reviewing Your State’s 2017 Essential Health Benefits Benchmark
Michelle LilienfeldIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act, Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service categories…
- July 29, 2015
Issue No. 5 – Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees
Wayne TurnerIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service…
- July 29, 2015
Issue No. 4 – United States Pharmacopeia Classification System
Michelle LilienfeldIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service…
- June 30, 2015
NHeLP Comments on Out-of-Pocket (OOP) Cost Comparison Tool for the Federally-Facilitated Marketplaces
Andy DiAntonioNHeLP comments on May 29, 2015 CMS Bulletin on Proposed Out-of-Pocket (OOP) Cost Comparison Tool for the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs).…
- June 22, 2015
EHB Prescription Drug Standard Issue No. 3 – Mail-Order Pharmacies
Wayne Turner and Shyaam SubramanianIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service…
- May 29, 2015
Lessons From CA: Essential Health Benefits
Michelle LilienfeldIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act, the Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) are a set of ten health care service…
- May 18, 2015
Health Advocate: Home & Community-Based Services
Elizabeth EdwardsThis month's issue of the Health Advocate offers guidance for advocates and a review of existing state-based transition plans…
- May 8, 2015
EHB Prescription Drug Standard – Exceptions Process
Michelle LilienfeldIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service…
- May 8, 2015
EHB Prescription Drug Standard – Formulary Transparency
Wayne TurnerIntroduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service…
- April 30, 2015
Lessons from CA: Ending Restrictions on Access to Reproductive Health Services
Andy DiAntonioIn this month's Lessons from California, we highlight the successful efforts by NHeLP and other advocates to ensure that…
- April 21, 2015
Health Advocate: Medicaid Expansion Waivers Update
Andy DiAntonioThis month's issue of the Health Advocate looks at the dramatic increase of Medicaid expansion waivers after the Supreme…
- April 10, 2015
Eighth Circuit Ruling in St. Louis Effort for AIDS v. Huff
Andy DiAntonioRuling in Missouri navigator case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed in part and otherwise vacated…
- April 9, 2015
Fact Sheet – IRS Updated Guidance on HCBS Difficulty of Care Payments
Wayne TurnerLast year, the IRS announced that payments received by in-home, individual care providers under Medicaid Home and Community Based…
- March 31, 2015
Lessons from CA: Hospital Presumptive Eligibility
Andy DiAntonioIn this month's Lessons from California, we highlight the successful efforts by NHeLP and other advocates to reverse an…
- March 12, 2015
Health Advocate: Medicaid Financing
Andy DiAntonioThis edition of the Health Advocate demonstrates Medicaid's cost-effectiveness and flexibility as broad proposals to cut Medicaid spending continue…
