Medicaid Awareness Month Resources

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.

September 20, 2017
NHeLP Letter to Senate Leaders Urges Rejection of Graham-Cassidy Bill
Andy DiAntonio
In a letter to U.S. Senate leaders, NHeLP details how the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act…
September 19, 2017
Top 10 Threats to People With Disabilities Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
Jennifer Lav
The new Senate effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid funding, the Graham-Cassidy bill, poses threats…
September 19, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
Amy Chen
NHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen details the major threats to women's ability to access comprehensive reproductive care posed by the…
September 19, 2017
Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill: Implications for CA
Andy DiAntonio
NHeLP attorneys' analysis of the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal the Affordable Care and radically cut Medicaid funding explains how…
September 15, 2017
Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
Mara Youdelman and Kimberly Lewis
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson (hereinafter "Graham-Cassidy") this week introduced a bill to repeal…
August 31, 2017
Access to Mental Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Andy DiAntonio
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are a particularly vulnerable population who use an array of mental health…
August 11, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Arkansas’ Amended Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services (HHS), NHeLP urges the department to reject…
August 11, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Reproductive Health
Fabiola Carrión and Andy DiAntonio
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides vital and comprehensive reproductive health care for millions of low-income women in the state…
August 8, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Kentucky’s Modified Sec. 1115 Waiver
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Kentucky's…
August 4, 2017
NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Texas' so-called…
August 4, 2017
Q&A on Non-Medical Transportation and Reproductive Health Services
Amy Chen
In this Q&A, Senior Attorney Amy Chen examines Medi-Cal's Non-Medical Transportation Services (NMT) and discusses, not only, the robust…
August 3, 2017
Medicaid EPSDT Litigation Trends
Jane Perkins
Legal Director Jane Perkins explores litigation involving Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program. Perkins provides…
August 2, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California
Amy Chen
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to the health of millions of pregnant women in the state, providing access…
July 24, 2017
Children of the Opioid Crisis
Andy DiAntonio
The opioid crisis has caused an influx of children in the foster care system, and proposals in Congress to…
July 21, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders
Andy DiAntonio
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to ensuring that "individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) have access to to…
July 20, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Wisconsin’s Request to Amend its Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Wisconsin's…
July 14, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Access to Providers
Andy DiAntonio
Senate Republicans' effort to radically slash federal Medicaid funding would threaten the ability of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to…
July 11, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Kentucky’s Sec. 1115 Waiver Proposal
Andy DiAntonio
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the HHS Secretary to reject…
July 10, 2017
Webinar: Section 1115 Demonstration Waivers
Jane Perkins
As part of the NHeLP's "Protect Medicaid Webinar Series," Legal Director Jane Perkins and Cindy Mann, former director of…
July 10, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Indiana’s Amended HIP Plan 2.0 Sec. 1115 Waiver
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges Secretary Thomas Price to reject…