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.
- December 19, 2014
Lessons from CA: Ensuring Medi-Cal Plans Provide Services to Children
Andy DiAntonioIn this month's Lessons from California, we highlight how NHeLP worked to ensure that California's Medi-Cal managed care plans…
- December 18, 2014
NHeLP EPSDT Letter to California Department of Health Services
Andy DiAntonioThis letter urges California's Medicaid Agency to take action to instruct Medicaid Managed Care plans that they are required…
- December 16, 2014
Health Advocate: 2014 Litigation Round Up
Jane PerkinsMore than four years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law have passed, and yet litigation over…
- December 11, 2014
NHeLP Matters – December 2014
Andy DiAntonioWelcome to the year's final edition of NHeLP Matters. In the past 12 months, we have fought for the…
- December 5, 2014
Comparison of Medi-Cal Benefits and Covered California Essential Health Benefits
Michelle Lilienfeld and Shyaam SubramanianCovered California's second open enrollment period began on November 15, 2014, and Californians must once again navigate the maze…
- December 5, 2014
Q&A Relatives as Paid Providers
Elizabeth EdwardsMany states allow parents or other legally responsible relatives to become paid providers of Medicaid-funded home and community based…
- December 4, 2014
Q&A: Abstention Update
Jane Perkins and Sarah SomersQ&A: Abtention Update This short issue brief discusses the latest developments in abstention cases affecting Medicaid beneficiaries, including a…
- November 14, 2014
Health Advocate: Open Enrollment 2 (OE2): What to Expect
Mara YoudelmanThe second open enrollment period begins Nov. 15, 2014. While we are leaps and bounds from the road bumps…
- November 12, 2014
Marketplace MAGI Webinar Part II – Household Composition
Wayne TurnerPart II in a two-part series on rules for determining a consumer's Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). MAGI applies…
- November 10, 2014
NHeLP Letter to CMS re: PA State Plan Benefits
Leo Cuello and Jane PerkinsIn this letter to CMS NHeLP recommends that CMS not approve reductions to Pennsylvania's Medicaid state plan benefit pursuant…
- November 7, 2014
Marketplace MAGI Webinar Part I – Income
Wayne TurnerPart I of a two-part series on rules for determining a consumer's Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). MAGI applies…
- November 4, 2014
Due Process in Duals Demonstrations: A Closer Look at New York
Andy DiAntonioNew York is one of several states working to better integrate care and services for individuals dually eligible for…
- October 30, 2014
Medicaid and Medicare: Aging, Access and Affordability
David MachledtAffordability is a cornerstone of any efficient and effective health care system. Discussions of healthcare affordability often center on…
- October 29, 2014
Lessons from CA: Covering Behavioral Health Treatment in Medi-Cal
Andy DiAntonioIn this month's Lessons from California, we highlight how NHeLP is working with advocates in California to ensure the…
- October 27, 2014
CMS’s guidance on EPSDT Services for Children with ASD
Andy DiAntonioIn July, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance clarifying that evidence-based treatments for children…
- October 27, 2014
NHeLP Comments on Amendments to Arkansas’s Health Care Independence Program
David MachledtArkansas recently proposed amendments to its premium assistance Medicaid expansion demonstration, the Health Care Independence Program. These are NHeLP's…
- October 27, 2014
2015 Pickle Amendment Chart
Andy DiAntonioA Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment. Courtesy of Gordon Bonnyman, Tennessee Justice…
- October 27, 2014
Reducing Medicaid Emergency Department Use: Increase Accessibility, Not Copays
David MachledtEmergency department care, one of the most frequently cited drivers of health care costs, has become a major target…
- October 21, 2014
Issue Brief: Hearing Services for Children on Medicaid
Jane Perkins and Catherine McKeeHearing loss affects many low-income children in the United States. Despite the proliferation of hospital-based newborn hearing screening programs,…
- October 16, 2014
Issue Brief: Update on Private Enforcement of the Medicaid Act
Jane PerkinsOver the years, Medicaid beneficiaries have asserted claims under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and 42 U.S.C.…
