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.
- August 11, 2023
Medicaid Eligibility Call Centers: Questions for LEP & Disability Access
Elizabeth Edwards and Mara YoudelmanCall centers are often the primary way that Medicaid enrollees interact with the Medicaid agency. During the unwinding of…
- July 14, 2023
Comments on Proposed Medicaid Managed Care Access Rule
Sarah SomersCMS proposed a major administrative rule that would increase transparency in managed care; improve monitoring and assure adequacy of…
- July 13, 2023
Comments on Proposed Medicaid Access Rule
Jennifer Lav, Wayne Turner, David Machledt, Abigail Coursolle, Dania Douglas, Charly Gilfoil, Jasmine Young, and Madeline MorcelleCMS proposed changes and additions to regulations enforcing the "equal access" provision of Medicaid. These changes would strengthen opportunities…
- June 14, 2023
The Constitutionality of Demographic Data Collection
Geron Gadd and Mara YoudelmanCollecting demographic data is legal and constitutional. Questions have arisen about the constitutionality of the collection and use of…
- June 2, 2023
NHeLP Comments on 2024 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule
Charly GilfoilNHeLP submitted comments on the annual Medicare IPPS/LTCH Proposed Rule in support of two new health equity measures. NHeLP…
- May 30, 2023
Trends in State Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding Plans
Cassandra LaRoseAs part of the Medicaid continuous coverage unwinding, states were required to create plans to describe how they will…
- May 15, 2023
“Unfit” to work? How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities
David MachledtNew proposals to impose harsh work requirements in the Medicaid program will cause people with disabilities to lose Medicaid…
- April 28, 2023
NHeLP Comments on OMB’s Initial Proposals to Revise the Race & Ethnicity Statistical Standards
Charly GilfoilNHeLP submitted comments in support of OMB's proposal to revise the standards that the federal government uses to collect demographic…
- April 20, 2023
Risks and Rewards of Demographic Data Collection: How Effective Data Privacy Can Promote Health Equity
Charly Gilfoil, Naomi G. Goldberg, Patrick L. Mason, Mary Lou Breslin, Silvia Yee, and Georgia BurkeThis four-part report series is a joint project of the National Health Law Program, the Disability Rights Education and…
- April 17, 2023
What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?
Wayne TurnerWith the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, and the implementation of Medicaid expansions and Marketplaces…
- April 3, 2023
National Health Law Program Comments on the DEA’s Proposed Rule on Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Medications
Madeline Morcelle and Skyler RoselliniThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP) submitted comments on the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, "Telemedicine…
- March 16, 2023
Protect Medicaid Funding series
Michelle Yiu, Emma Parker-Newton, David Machledt, Amy Chen, Madeline Morcelle, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Catherine McKee, Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Charly GilfoilIn an updated series of fact sheets called Protect Medicaid Funding, NHeLP provides succinct analysis of the policy proposals…
- March 13, 2023
NHeLP Comments on the HHS Prior Authorization Proposed Rule (2023)
Wayne Turner, David Machledt, and Sarah SomersIn these comments on the Prior Authorization Proposed Rule, NHeLP urges HHS to go further to curb the abuse…
- March 7, 2023
National Health Law Program Comments on HHS’s Proposed Changes to Health Care Refusal Regulations
Madeline Morcelle, Charly Gilfoil, Cat Duffy, and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoThe National Health Law Program submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) Notice of Proposed…
- February 23, 2023
Issue Brief Series on California’s Reparations Task Force Newly Released Interim Report
Jasmine Young and Skyler RoselliniOn September 30, 2020, the California Reparations Task Force was formed, which is the first of its kind in…
- February 19, 2023
Protecting People with Disabilities and People with Limited English Proficiency during the Unwinding of the Continuous Coverage Provision
Elizabeth Edwards and Mara YoudelmanState planning for the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage provision needs to include evaluation of a state's processes,…
- January 31, 2023
Reforming Medicaid Coverage Toward Reproductive Justice
Madeline MorcelleThis article appeared in Volume 48, Issue 2–3 of the American Journal of Law & Medicine, North America’s leading…
- November 18, 2022
Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint
Madeline Morcelle and Amy ChenAccording to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2017–2019, roughly 84 percent of…
- November 1, 2022
Joint comment letter: Temporary Increase in Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) in Response to the COVID–19 Public Health Emergency (PHE); Reopening of Public Comment Period
Miriam Delaney Heard and Wayne TurnerIn the last days of the Trump administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an Interim…
- November 1, 2022
NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information: Promoting Efficiency, Reducing Burden, and Advancing Equity within CMS Programs
Charly GilfoilNHeLP submitted comments to CMS in response to a request for information on access to care, health equity, and…