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.

August 29, 2023
Medi-Cal Pregnancy Services for Current and Former Foster Youth
Jasmine Young and Amy Chen
Current and former foster youth in California have access to a broad array of sexual and reproductive health services.…
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 21, 2023
An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)
Priscilla Huang, Madeline Morcelle, and Amy Chen
In 2019, NHeLP published the 2nd Edition of An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid…
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…
August 3, 2023
Aligning Pregnancy-Related Medicaid Coverage Extensions and Medicaid Doula Coverage to Improve Maternal Health
Natasha Rappazzo* and Amy Chen
Medicaid plays a crucial role in ensuring access to care during and after pregnancy. States can help alleviate maternal…
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…
May 9, 2023
Women’s Health Defense Table Letter to Congressional Leadership Opposing Medicaid Work Requirements
Madeline Morcelle
On May 9th, 2023, more than fifty organizational members of the Women's Health Defense Table (WHDT)* and national allies…
April 17, 2023
What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?
Wayne Turner
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, and the implementation of Medicaid expansions and Marketplaces…
April 4, 2023
NHeLP Comments on Coverage of Contraceptive Services Under the Affordable Care Act
Liz McCaman Taylor
Section 2713(a)(4) of the Public Health Service Act, and its implementing regulations, make access to contraception possible by ensuring…
March 16, 2023
Protect Medicaid Funding series (2023)
Michelle Yiu, Emma Parker-Newton, David Machledt, Amy Chen, Madeline Morcelle, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Catherine McKee, Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Charly Gilfoil
A 2024 update of this series can be found here. In an updated series of fact sheets called Protect…
March 13, 2023
NHeLP Comments on the HHS Prior Authorization Proposed Rule (2023)
Wayne Turner, David Machledt, and Sarah Somers
In these comments on the Prior Authorization Proposed Rule, NHeLP urges HHS to go further to curb the abuse…
March 7, 2023
National Health Law Program Comments on HHS’s Proposed Changes to Health Care Refusal Regulations
Madeline Morcelle, Charly Gilfoil, Cat Duffy, and Héctor Hernández-Delgado
The National Health Law Program submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) Notice of Proposed…
January 31, 2023
Reforming Medicaid Coverage Toward Reproductive Justice
Madeline Morcelle
This article appeared in Volume 48, Issue 2–3 of the American Journal of Law & Medicine, North America’s leading…
January 30, 2023
NHeLP Comments on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;
Wayne Turner
In these comments on the NBPP 2024 Proposed Rule, NHeLP addresses a number of issues to protect health care…
November 9, 2022
Current State of Doula Medicaid Implementation Efforts in November 2022
Amy Chen
The National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project has been tracking doula Medicaid implementation efforts since 2019. As of…
October 18, 2022
Model Contraceptive Equity Act: Legislative Language and Issue Brief
Liz McCaman Taylor
Updated October 2023. This paper begins with model legislative language that can serve as a template for state advocates…
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…
September 14, 2022
Steps Toward Contraceptive Equity: State Legislative Considerations for the 2023 Session
Liz McCaman Taylor
In the first regular state legislative session post-Dobbs, many state policymakers and advocates may seek to shore up contraceptive…
July 28, 2022
Essential Health Benefits: Best Practices in Benchmark Selection
Wayne Turner and Héctor Hernández-Delgado
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a comprehensive set of ten Essential Health Benefits (EHB) that most health plans…
May 16, 2022
Medicaid Coverage of Advanced Practice Prescribing for Reproductive & Sexual Health Medications
Liz McCaman Taylor and Cathren Cohen
Advanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care practitioners, other than physicians, who may practice independently and bill directly…