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.
- October 17, 2025
An Advocate’s Guide to Access GAC in CA: Chapter 2 Important Terminology & Documents
Abigail Coursolle and Skyler RoselliniThis chapter is part of NHeLP’s forthcoming Advocate’s Guide to Accessing Gender-Affirming Care in California. It focuses on important…
- September 15, 2025
An Advocate’s Guide to Access GAC in CA: Chapter 5 File A Grievance or Appeal
Abigail Coursolle and Skyler RoselliniThis chapter is part of NHeLP’s forthcoming Advocate’s Guide to Accessing Gender-Affirming Care in California. It focuses on the…
- August 21, 2025
Changes to Medi-Cal and Covered California Under the OBBBA and the CA Budget
California Policy TeamH.R. 1, also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” (OBBBA) cuts approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid which…
- June 12, 2025
Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Justice-Involved Individuals Transitioning Out of Incarceration
Jasmine YoungThis so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will cut billions from Medicaid and heavily impact individuals who are transitioning out…
- April 2, 2025
Best Practices for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care
Amy ChenThe National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project is proud to publish its Best Practices for Medicaid Coverage of…
- March 20, 2025
A New Medi-Cal Program Helps You Stay Off Stimulant Drugs
Héctor Hernández-DelgadoStimulants are drugs like cocaine, meth, and ecstasy. A new program will pay certain Medi-Cal enrollees up to $599…
- February 6, 2025
Protect Medi-Cal Funding 2025 series
Kimberly Lewis, Skyler Rosellini, Abigail Coursolle, Jules Lutaba, Jasmine Young, Fabiola De Liban, Amy Chen, Alicia Emanuel, Carly Myers, Alexis Robles-Fradet, and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoCalifornia’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) provides a critical investment in the health of Californians. Medi-Cal coverage and services are tailored…
- January 15, 2025
Why Medicaid is Important for Rural Health
Alexis Robles-FradetRural residents rely on Medicaid to provide much needed insurance coverage. Rural hospitals and providers are already facing closures…
- January 15, 2025
Why Medicaid is Important: EPSDT and Services for Children and Youth with Disabilities
Shandra HartlyMedicaid services are vitally important for children and youth with disabilities. Through benefits like the Early and Periodic Screening,…
- December 18, 2024
Medicaid coverage of sexual health services
Rory Peters, Wayne Turner, and Fabiola De LibanThis factsheet describes how Medicaid covers sexual health services. It follows the World Health Organization’s definition of sexual health,…
- December 13, 2024
Know Your Appeal Rights for the California Children’s Services Program
Skyler Rosellini, Alexis Robles-Fradet, and Kimberly LewisThe CCS Program can often be challenging to navigate for families with children with complex health needs. CCS children…
- December 9, 2024
State of the States (November 2024): Efforts to Expand Access to Doula Care in Medicaid and Private Insurance
Amy ChenAs 2024 draws to a close, a slim majority of states – 27 total plus Washington DC – have…
- December 2, 2024
NHeLP Comments on Mandatory Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Core Set Reporting
David MachledtThese comments respond to a CMS proposed rule that would require annual reporting on a core set of measures…
- November 7, 2024
Medi-Cal Services & Supports for Californians Transitioning Out of Incarceration
Jasmine Young and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoIn California, roughly one million adults and youth involuntarily enter or are released from a California public carceral system…
- October 4, 2024
Fact Sheet: Medi-Cal Coverage of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Hector Hernandez-DelgadoTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an evidence-based device and procedure used in the treatment of major depresisve disorder (MDD)…
- August 28, 2024
Medicaid Advisory Committees: Best Practices for Effective Stakeholder Engagement
Daniel Young and Wayne TurnerAlthough Medical Care Advisory Committees (MCACs) have been federally required for nearly forty years, some states have seriously underutilized…
- August 14, 2024
Medi-Cal Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) & Intensive Home Based Services (IHBS): Access Standards and Beneficiary Rights
Carly Myers and Kim LewisSome county mental health plans (MHPs) have policies and practices on ICC and IHBS that do not comply with…
- July 15, 2024
Coalition Letter on California’s Essential Health Benefits Benchmarking
Héctor Hernández-DelgadoCalifornia is currently in the process of evaluating the State's Essential Health Benefits benchmark plan. In response to a…
- July 11, 2024
NHeLP Letter to CCIIO on DC EHB Procedural Defect
Wayne Turner and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoNHeLP urges the HHS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) to reject the District of Columbia's recent…
- June 3, 2024
Addressing Language Access for Reproductive Telehealth Care
RHITES, COLOR Latina, Frontera Fund, and National Health Law Program (NHeLP)RHITES latest factsheet created in partnership with COLOR Latina, Frontera Fund and the National Health Law Program dives deeper…
