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.
- July 23, 2013
Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive Health in the Medicaid Program: Updated ACA
Andy DiAntonioWhen reading content in the Advocate's Guide to Reproductive Health in the Medicaid Program the Guide, refer to this…
- July 23, 2013
NHeLP Comments: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of Ex
Andy DiAntonioVIA ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPO Box 8010Baltimore, MD 21244-8010Attention: CMS-9989-FPatient Protection…
- July 23, 2013
2012 HHS Federal Poverty Guidelines Released
Andy DiAntonioSUMMARY: This notice provides an update of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) poverty guidelines to account…
- July 23, 2013
NHeLP Comments on the Citizen Health Care Working Group Proposed Recommendation
Andy DiAntonioCitizens? Health Care Working Group7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Room 575Bethesda, Maryland 20814Re: Comments on Interim Recommendations To the Citizens? Health Care…
- July 23, 2013
NHeLP Letter of Support for Legal Immigrant ChildrenÍs Health Improvement Act o
Andy DiAntonioThis letter to Senators Clinton and Snowe thanks them for introducing the Legal Immigrant ChildrenÍs Health Improvement Act of…
- July 23, 2013
Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Fail Limited English Proficient Beneficiaries
Alejandra PavisichMedicare prescription drug plans are required to provide multi-lingual services to Limited English Proficient (LEP) persons. Many beneficiaries have…
- July 23, 2013
Serving Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a Community Healt
Andy DiAntonioA national survey of federally qualified community health centers to examine their policies and practices for providing language service…
- July 23, 2013
Language Access: Understanding the Barriers and Challenges in Primary Care Sett
Andy DiAntonioA report including case studies from community health centers and free clinics describing how they provide language services to…
- July 23, 2013
The Human Right to Health and Women’s Reproductive Health Policy
Alejandra PavisichThis fact sheet provides an overview of the right to health as international authorities have interpreted and applied it…
- July 23, 2013
An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive Health in the Medicaid Program
Susan Berke Fogel, Deborah Reid, and Mara YoudelmanAn Advocate's Guide will familiarize readers with the basics of the Medicaid Program and highlight features that support women's…
- July 23, 2013
Providing Language Interpretation Services in Health Care Settings: Examples fr
Jane Perkins and Mara YoudelmanA report exploring how to provide language services for limited English proficient (LEP) patients in a vareity of health…
