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December 14, 2018
Routes to Success for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care
Amy Chen Manual/Report
Racism and racial bias in health care have helped contribute to what is now coming to be understood as a national crisis of maternal deaths for women of color, in particular Black and Indigenous/U.S. Indian women. The statistics are shocking: Black women are three to four times as likely…
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December 14, 2018
Dental Credit Card Debt: California Advocates Toolkit
Michelle Lilienfeld Fact Sheet, Guide
Dental care is essential to health care and California’s Medicaid agency is taking steps to ensure quality access to low-income individuals and families in the state. But there are still challenges to overcome, such as dental credit card debt, as National Health Law Program Senior Attorney Michelle Lilienfeld details in this…
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November 29, 2018
National Health Law Program Analysis of California’s Conditional Merger of Catholic Hospitals
Amy Chen Article
Senior Attorney Amy Chen provides analysis of the California Department of Justice's recent conditioned approval of Catholic health care providers in the state. Chen describes the conditions surrounding this merger, and how it will impact women, the LGBTQ community, and low-income individuals in the states who rely on these…
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November 14, 2018
National Health Law Program 9th Circuit Amicus Brief Supporting Calif.’s Laws Protecting Immigrants’ Health & Safety
Abigail Coursolle and Sarah Grusin Court Document, Cases
In a bold effort to counter the Trump administration's aggressive and cruel agenda to deport immigrants and their families or imprison them in "detention centers" throughout California, state lawmakers passed several laws to protect the health and safety of immigrants, documented or not, from the administration's legally suspect and…
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November 2, 2018
Navigating The Challenges of Medi-Cal’s Mental Health Services in California: An Examination of Care Coordination, Referrals and Dispute Resolution
Kimberly Lewis, Abigail Coursolle, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Hayley Penan, and Alexis Robles-Fradet Manual/Report
Medi-Cal plays a crucial role in providing mental health services in California. In 2015, over 600,000 Californians – approximately two percent of the State’s population – received mental health services paid for by Medi-Cal. While Medi-Cal plays an important role in delivering necessary mental health services to Californians, many…
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September 27, 2018
Health and Civil Rights Groups’ Comments on Calif. Proposed Merger of Catholic Health Systems
dfitzgerald Comments
The National Health Law Program along with more than 20 health, civil and human rights groups, filed comments with the California Department of Justice urging it to accompany a merger of two large Catholic health care systems in the state with "robust and enforceable conditions that protect community interests.…
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Routes to Success for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care

Dental Credit Card Debt: California Advocates Toolkit

National Health Law Program Analysis of California’s Conditional Merger of Catholic Hospitals

National Health Law Program 9th Circuit Amicus Brief Supporting Calif.’s Laws Protecting Immigrants’ Health & Safety

Navigating The Challenges of Medi-Cal’s Mental Health Services in California: An Examination of Care Coordination, Referrals and Dispute Resolution

Health and Civil Rights Groups’ Comments on Calif. Proposed Merger of Catholic Health Systems