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 20, 2021
NHeLP comments on Updating Payment Parameters Rule
Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Fabiola CarriónIn the Updating Payment Parameters Rule (UPP Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes several important changes…
- June 29, 2021
Webinar: Quality and Accountability in Medicaid Managed Care — Where We Stand in 2021
David MachledtThis webinar presents a recent series of papers that provide tips on leveraging managed care accountability tools, locating state…
- June 28, 2021
Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result
Madeline MorcelleExpanding Medicaid is an urgent moral, anti-racist, health equity, reproductive justice, and economic imperative. Yet today, policymakers in twelve…
- 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…
- May 25, 2021
Addressing Health Equity in Medicaid Managed Care
David MachledtAdvocates have long pushed states and CMS to improve Medicaid data collection and reporting on health disparities with little…
- April 15, 2021
NHeLP Urges Congress to Confirm Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as Next CMS Administrator
Madeline MorcelleNHeLP letter to Congress urging the confirmation of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as the next Administrator of the U.S. Centers for…
- 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…
- March 25, 2021
Fostering Equitable Access to Abortion Coverage: Reversing the Hyde Amendment
Madeline MorcelleThe future of access to abortion services is at a crossroads. The Biden-Harris administration and 117th Congress could commit…
- March 24, 2021
NHeLP’s attorney on KCBS radio interview
Mara YoudelmanNHeLP's attorney Mara Youdelman was interviewed by San Francisco's KCBS radio on the language barriers that people face as…
- March 4, 2021
NHeLP attorney Madeline Morcelle publishes op-ed with Rewire News Group
Madeline MorcelleNHeLP attorney Madeline Morcelle published an op-ed with Rewire News Group on how the Trump-era public charge rule harms…
- February 18, 2021
NHeLP Expresses Support for Xavier Becerra to be the Next HHS Secretary
Mara Youdelman and Kimberly LewisNHeLP letter to Congress urging the confirmation of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next Secretary of the…
- January 21, 2021
Finding and Analyzing Medicaid Quality Measures
David MachledtThis brief provides tools to find the major sources of state and plan-level Medicaid quality data, to learn how…
- December 8, 2020
Testimony on the Hyde Amendment before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Madeline MorcelleThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP) submitted this testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Labor, Health…
- 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…
- July 20, 2020
NHeLP comments on Medicaid Prescrption Drug Rebate Program and Value- based Purchasing Proposed Rulemaking
Wayne Turner, Liz McCaman Taylor, Madeline Morcelle, and Cathren CohenIn a proposed rule, CMS seeks to expand value-based purchasing arrangements for prescription drugs in commercial plans and the…
- June 19, 2020
HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care
Wayne Turner, Mara Youdelman, and Madeline MorcelleAs part of its ongoing attacks on health care and civil rights, the Trump administration recently finalized drastic changes…
- May 14, 2020
Top Ten List: Coverage of COVID Testing and Treatment for Immigrants
Sarah GrusinThe NHeLP Medicaid COVID Top 10 Series provides advocates with a useful tool to guide COVID-related work with Medicaid…
- October 18, 2019
Comments on HUD Disparate Impact Rule Changes and the Use of Algorithms
Elizabeth Edwards, David Machledt, and Hannah EichnerIn comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), NHeLP expresses strong opposition to the proposed rule…
- October 15, 2019
DHS’ Final Rule: Impact of Public Charge on Health Care and Benefits
Mara Youdelman and Priscilla HuangOn August 12, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a final rule redefining the term “public charge.”…
- September 1, 2019
Declaration of Leighton Ku in La Clínica de la Raza v. Trump
Litigation TeamThis declaration examines the potential effects of the final public charge regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland…