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.
- April 29, 2014
Comments on Cal MediConnect Enrollment Materials
Andy DiAntonioThe Coordinated Care Initiative encompasses several very complex changes. This makes it very difficult to create notices that can…
- April 28, 2014
Comments on All Plan Letter: Continuity of Care
Andy DiAntonioWe are happy to see that the APL addresses that COC applies to both continuity of services and continuity…
- April 28, 2014
Comments on 90-day MLTSS Duals Notice and 45-day MLTSS Notice
Andy DiAntonioAs a preliminary matter, we urge DHCS to also provide the draft notices directed to seniors and persons with…
- April 28, 2014
Cal MediConnect 45-day voluntary Enrollment notice for Los Angeles
Andy DiAntonioThe three-month voluntary enrollment period allowsdual eligibles a period of time to review Cal MediConnect prior to passive enrollment…
- April 21, 2014
Health Advocate: Medicaid Estate Recovery
Michelle LilienfeldWhat happens to an estate when someone on Medicaid passes away? Can children still recover a home owned by…
- April 21, 2014
Proposed Rule: Community Health Needs Assessments for Charitable Hospitals
Andy DiAntonioIt is critical not only that that low-income and underserved individuals have access to emergency and medically necessary care…
- April 21, 2014
NHeLP Comments on Medicaid Program; Increased Federal Medical Assistance Percent
Andy DiAntonioNHeLP believes HHS? proposed rule is well designed to ensure states are able to receive the enhanced matching funds…
- April 21, 2014
The Transition of People Living with HIV/AIDS from Ryan White-Funded Care to California’s Early Medicaid Expansion Program: Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead
Andy DiAntonioIn 2010, the Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a California Medicaid waiver (pursuant to §…
- April 14, 2014
Comments on 60-Day and 30-Day MLTSS Duals Notices
Andy DiAntonioWe urge DHCS to insert a tagline on the notices or include an insert with the notice in the…
- April 10, 2014
NHeLP Comments to Health Pennsylvania 1115 Proposal
Andy DiAntonioThe Pennsylvania 1115 Medicaid proposal is an extremely dangerous one. Under the guise of expanding Medicaid it would enact…
- April 3, 2014
Q&A: EPSDT Coverage of Nutrition Services
Jane PerkinsQ&A Fact Sheet on EPSDT coverage of nutrition selection. EPSDT is a mandatory Medicaid service for children and youth under…
- April 3, 2014
Fact Sheet: Medicaid EPSDT Case Trends and Docket
Jane PerkinsThe Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) provisions are among the most specific in the Medicaid Act.…
- March 31, 2014
Comments to Draft Medi-Cal Plan Choice Notices
Andy DiAntonioNHeLP's comments on LIHP manged care plan notices focused ensuring that enrollees have adequate information about continuity of care…
- March 26, 2014
Comments to Two-Plan Model Modification
Andy DiAntonioDisability Rights California, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, National Health Law Program, Project Inform, and Western Center on…
- March 26, 2014
Draft Communication and Outreach Strategy for the LIHP Transition
Andy DiAntonioThank you for the opportunity to comment on the Draft Communication and Outreach Strategy for theLow Income Health Program…
- March 25, 2014
Medicaid Premiums and Cost Sharing
David Machledt and Jane PerkinsThis brief reviews the literature on the impact of premiums and cost sharing on enrollment, service utilization, and health…
- March 18, 2014
Health Advocate: Medicaid Expansion and Premium Assistance
Andy DiAntonioThis issue of the Health Advocate covers how states are implementing the Medicaid expansion authorized by the ACA using…
- March 6, 2014
NHeLP Amicus Brief in Florida v. HHS
Jane Perkins and Sarah SomersIn the U.S. Supreme Court. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly held that the Medicaid expansion provisions…
