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.

November 7, 2024
An Advocate’s Primer on Fighting Barriers to Prescription Drugs for Chronic Conditions Under Dobbs
Madeline Morcelle
Amid escalating attacks on sexual and reproductive rights in the U.S., people are facing increasing barriers to prescription drugs…
May 9, 2024
[Webinar] The Biden Administration’s Final Rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: What You Need to Know
Mara Youdelman, Jennifer Lav, Madeline Morcelle, and Wayne Turner
The final Section 1557 regulation was recently released by the Office for Civil Rights. Implementing Section 1557 of the…
May 9, 2024
Questions and Answers on the 2024 Final Rule Addressing Nondiscrimination Protections under the ACA’s Section 1557
Mara Youdelman, Madeline Morcelle, Wayne Turner, and Jennifer Lav
The Biden Administration finalized updates to the regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 prohibits…
April 30, 2024
Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding: Messaging and Outreach Resources
Michelle Yiu
State Medicaid agencies are beginning to unwind the Medicaid continuous coverage provisions enacted in early 2020 to adapt to…
March 12, 2024
DOJ and OCR Complaints: Complaints Filed Against Medicaid Programs in DC and Texas
Elizabeth Edwards, Jane Perkins, and Litigation Team
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP), together with Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services (DRDC) and Disability Rights…
March 8, 2024
NHeLP’s Framing and Language in the Doula Medicaid Project
Michelle Yiu
In recent years, NHeLP has encountered discussions regarding the problematic etymology of the term “doula” as associated with slavery.…
February 21, 2024
Testimony to Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: Promise and Pitfalls
Elizabeth Edwards
NHeLP submitted written testimony to the February 8, 2024 Senate Finance Committee meeting on AI and health care that…
February 7, 2024
AMICUS: Planned Parenthood of Montana v. Montana, Supreme Court of the State of Montana
Catherine McKee
In 2023, Montana imposed severe restrictions on coverage of abortion services for individuals enrolled in Medicaid. Reproductive health providers…
February 2, 2024
Case Update: Supplemental Complaint file in Rose v. Becerra
Jane Perkins and Catherine McKee
This case update focuses on Rose v. Becerra, which challenges approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid project in Indiana.…
December 6, 2023
Unwinding Call Center Data Shows Ongoing Problems
Michelle Yiu and Elizabeth Edwards
In August 2023, CMS issued letters to states regarding unwinding data metrics as of May 2023, including data on…
November 22, 2023
U.S. v. Florida Case Explainer
Arielle Linsey and Jane Perkins
On July 14, 2023, the Southern District of Florida issued a significant decision in United States v. Florida, a…
November 21, 2023
AMICUS: U.S. v. Florida, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jane Perkins
NHeLP and the amici are pediatric experts and medical associations, a national philanthropic organization committed to advancing health equity,…
November 15, 2023
Comments on Section 504 Proposed Rules: Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Services
Jennifer Lav, Dania Douglas, Elizabeth Edwards, Charly Gilfoil, David Machledt, Madeline Morcelle, Carly Myers, Michelle Yiu, and Daniel Young
NHeLP offered support and suggested critical ways to strengthen the first update to Section 504 regulations since 1977. The…
August 22, 2023
LGBTQ+ Unwinding Fact Sheets for Medi-Cal and Medicaid
Skyler Rosellini and Michelle Yiu
In partnership with Equality California and its affiliate Silver State Equality, the National Health Law Program created two fact…
August 11, 2023
Medicaid Eligibility Call Centers: Questions for LEP & Disability Access
Elizabeth Edwards and Mara Youdelman
Call centers are often the primary way that Medicaid enrollees interact with the Medicaid agency. During the unwinding of…
May 30, 2023
Trends in State Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding Plans
Cassandra LaRose
As part of the Medicaid continuous coverage unwinding, states were required to create plans to describe how they will…
October 3, 2022
NHeLP Comments on Section 1557 Proposed Rule
Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Elizabeth Edwards, Madeline Morcelle, Abigail Coursolle, Charly Gilfoil, Jennifer Lav, Skyler Rosellini, Alicia Emanuel, Cat Duffy, Catherine McKee, Fabiola De Liban, David Machledt, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Dania Douglas, and Carly Myers
NHeLP submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services' Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement Section 1557…
June 19, 2020
HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care
Wayne Turner, Mara Youdelman, and Madeline Morcelle
As part of its ongoing attacks on health care and civil rights, the Trump administration recently finalized drastic changes…
June 4, 2019
Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557
Wayne Turner and Candace Gibson
In courts and through regulatory action, the administration is vigorously working to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On…
January 9, 2015
Letter to HHS Office of Civil Rights on pending HIV discrimination complaint
Jane Perkins and Wayne Turner
The National Health Law Program and The AIDS Institute (TAI) sent the attached letter to the HHS Office of…

Medicaid Awareness Month Resources

An Advocate’s Primer on Fighting Barriers to Prescription Drugs for Chronic Conditions Under Dobbs

[Webinar] The Biden Administration’s Final Rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: What You Need to Know

Questions and Answers on the 2024 Final Rule Addressing Nondiscrimination Protections under the ACA’s Section 1557

Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding: Messaging and Outreach Resources

DOJ and OCR Complaints: Complaints Filed Against Medicaid Programs in DC and Texas

NHeLP’s Framing and Language in the Doula Medicaid Project

Testimony to Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: Promise and Pitfalls

AMICUS: Planned Parenthood of Montana v. Montana, Supreme Court of the State of Montana

Case Update: Supplemental Complaint file in Rose v. Becerra

Unwinding Call Center Data Shows Ongoing Problems

U.S. v. Florida Case Explainer

AMICUS: U.S. v. Florida, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Comments on Section 504 Proposed Rules: Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Services

LGBTQ+ Unwinding Fact Sheets for Medi-Cal and Medicaid

Medicaid Eligibility Call Centers: Questions for LEP & Disability Access

Trends in State Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding Plans

HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care

Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557

Letter to HHS Office of Civil Rights on pending HIV discrimination complaint