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 20, 2015
Hill-Burton Facility Listing
Jane PerkinsHill-Burton Act funded the construction of health care facilities beginning in the 1940s. Facilities receiving this funding had a…
- November 9, 2015
NHeLP Comment: Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities NPRM
Mara YoudelmanNHeLP comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rule Making to the Affordable Care Act's section 1557, Nondiscrimination…
- September 29, 2015
Verified Petition for Writ of Mandate Order: Rivera v. Douglas
External Source and Andy DiAntonioHundreds of thousands of low-income people who are eligible for health care benefits have been waiting and suffering without desperately…
- September 29, 2015
Writ of Mandate Order: Rivera v. Douglas
External Source and Andy DiAntonioThe Petition of Petitioners Frances Rivera, Mark Mullin, Ebony Pickett, Groto Ni and Maternal and Child Health Access ("Petitioners") for…
- July 13, 2015
Health Advocate: The ACA and LGBT Health
Wayne TurnerIn this month's Health Advocate, NHeLP examines the issue of health care coverage and some of the important gains…
- May 14, 2015
Survey of Medicaid Managed Care Contracts: EPSDT Vision and Hearing Services
Jane Perkins, Sarah Somers, and External SourceAn estimated 25 percent of all school children in the United States have some type of vision problem significant…
- May 12, 2015
Issue Brief: Vision Services for Children on Medicaid A Review of EPSDT Services
Jane Perkins and Catherine McKeeA significant number of children in the United States are living with undiagnosed vision problems, and low-income children and…
- 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…
- March 10, 2015
NHeLP Matters – March 2015
Andy DiAntonioSummary of recent accomplishments of NHeLP including work to end HIV discrimination, protecting court access and Medicaid, and advancing…
- February 23, 2015
Comments to Help Shape a Federal Immigration and Refugee Integration Strategy
Erin Armstrong and Andy DiAntonioAs part of President Obama's Immigration Accountability Executive Actions, the administration created the White House Task Force on New…
- February 13, 2015
Top 10 Takeaways: CBO Report on Medicaid Spending Caps
Andy DiAntonioNHeLP's Top 10 Takeaways from the November 2013 CBO report illustrating why spending caps in Medicaid are a bad…
- February 9, 2015
Top 3 Takeaways: Burr-Hatch-Upton Plan to Replace the ACA
Andy DiAntonioOn February 4, 2015, three Republican legislators released a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Burr-Hatch-Upton…
- February 6, 2015
Earlier Access to Care for Uninsured Women Living with HIV and the ACA
Andy DiAntonioThe Medicaid program has traditionally served as an important safety-net program for low-income women living with HIV/AIDS; however, the…
- January 28, 2015
Amicus Brief of AARP and NHeLP in King v. Burwell, U.S. Supreme Court
Jane Perkins and External SourceAmicus brief of AARP and the National Health Law Program in King v. Burwell supporting the availability of the…
- January 20, 2015
2015 HHS Federal Poverty Guidelines
External Source and Andy DiAntonioUpdated HHS poverty guidelines to account for last calendar year's increase in prices as measured by the Consumer Price…
