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.
- October 18, 2022
Model Contraceptive Equity Act: Legislative Language and Issue Brief
Liz McCaman TaylorUpdated October 2023. This paper begins with model legislative language that can serve as a template for state advocates…
- September 14, 2022
Steps Toward Contraceptive Equity: State Legislative Considerations for the 2023 Session
Liz McCaman TaylorIn the first regular state legislative session post-Dobbs, many state policymakers and advocates may seek to shore up contraceptive…
- May 16, 2022
Medicaid Coverage of Advanced Practice Prescribing for Reproductive & Sexual Health Medications
Liz McCaman Taylor and Cathren CohenAdvanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care practitioners, other than physicians, who may practice independently and bill directly…
- May 3, 2022
Scope of Practice and Medicaid: State Flexibility to Cover Advanced Practice Care
Liz McCaman Taylor and Cathren CohenAdvanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care practitioners, other than physicians, who may practice independently and bill directly…
- April 27, 2022
National Health Law Program Comments on Consent for Sterilization Form
Cat DuffyThe Consent for Sterilization policy has provided much-needed protection against coercive sterilization. The United States has an ugly history…
- February 4, 2022
Coverage of Over-the-Counter Drugs in Medicaid (Revised February 2022)
Abigail Coursolle and Liz McCaman TaylorDrug coverage is an important facet of the Medicaid program. Although it is an optional benefit, all states cover…
- December 9, 2021
Contraceptive Equity Primers
Liz McCaman TaylorState Contraceptive Equity laws can play a critical role in filling the remaining gaps from the Affordable Care Act,…
- December 7, 2021
Model Contraceptive Equity Act: Legislative Language and Issue Brief
Liz McCaman TaylorUPDATED - December 2021. Contraceptive Equity is a policy framework under which contraceptive care is easily accessible and covered…
- June 15, 2021
State Approaches to Improving Reproductive and Sexual Health
Priscilla HuangNHeLP conducted a 50-state review of state Medicaid websites of COVID-19 related policies related to reproductive and sexual health…
- April 8, 2021
Post-Abortion Contraceptive Coverage in Medicaid
Fabiola De Liban and Liz McCaman TaylorThis issue brief discusses how Medicaid allows coverage of family planning services during an abortion visit that is not…
- March 31, 2021
Making “Convenient Care” the Right Care for All: Improving State Oversight of Urgent Care Centers and Retail Health Clinics
Tess Solomon, Kelly Jo Popkin, Amy Chen, Lois Uttley, and Susannah BaruchA growing number of health care consumers are turning to urgent care centers and retail health clinics, which have…
- December 17, 2020
Medicaid Coverage of Family Planning Services Delivered via Telehealth
Fabiola De Liban, Catherine McKee, and Liz McCaman TaylorThe COVID-19 public health emergency has shown the need to increase access to health services through telehealth, including for…
- 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…
- September 17, 2020
NHeLP comments on Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (the “Orange Book”)
Liz McCaman TaylorThe Orange Book is an important and informative drug resource for a range of stakeholders. In a request for…
- May 27, 2020
Top Ten List: Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access in the Time of COVID-19
Madeline Morcelle and Priscilla HuangThe COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating pervasive obstacles to sexual health, family planning, prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum,…
- February 7, 2020
Amicus: Doe v. Trump, Ninth Circuit
Jane Perkins and Sarah GrusinThe National Health Law Program, the American Public Health Association, and 48 other groups filed an amicus brief opposing…
- November 22, 2019
Young v. Azar, D.D.C.
Jane Perkins, Sarah Somers, and Sarah GrusinFour low-income individuals from Michigan enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its…
- November 19, 2019
Medicaid Abortion Coverage in Arizona
Fabiola De LibanAfter finding that several states violated federal policy requiring reporting waivers in cases of rape, NHeLP partnered with state…
- July 8, 2019
National Health Law Program Amicus Brief, Title X Final Rule Challenges
Andy DiAntonioCourt Cases On March 4, 2019 the Trump Administration announced a new final regulation change to the Title X…
- April 3, 2019
Pregnancy, Opioid Use Disorder, and Opioid Agonist Treatment: A Fact Sheet for State-Level Advocates
Rachel HoltzmanThe worsening crisis of opioid-related harm in the U.S. touches all members of society, including pregnant people. People may…
