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June 30, 2015
Lessons From CA: Ensuring Medi-Cal Plans Provide Hepatitis C Treatments
Abbi Coursolle, Kim Lewis, and dfitzgerald Issue Brief
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June 29, 2015
Health Consumer Alliance Letter to California Department of Health Services
Abbi Coursolle and Kim Lewis Letter
The HCA commends DHCS for expanding the utilization policy to increase the number of people living with hepatitis C who are eligible for treatment through Medi-Cal. This draft makes several important changes to the previous policy, including recognizing that treatment is often clinically appropriate for people with less-advanced stages…
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May 29, 2015
Lessons From CA: Essential Health Benefits
Michelle Lilienfeld Issue Brief
Introduced by the Affordable Care Act, the Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) are a set of ten health care service categories that non-grandfathered health plans in the individual and small group markets must cover. States are in the process of making important decisions about the EHBs, therefore this is a…
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April 30, 2015
Lessons from CA: Ending Restrictions on Access to Reproductive Health Services
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
In this month's Lessons from California, we highlight the successful efforts by NHeLP and other advocates to ensure that the California Attorney General imposed robust conditions on the sale of six Daughters of Charity hospitals to a secular system to restore and expand reproductive health services at the hospitals…
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March 31, 2015
Lessons from CA: Hospital Presumptive Eligibility
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
In this month's Lessons from California, we highlight the successful efforts by NHeLP and other advocates to reverse an illegal California policy to deny HPE coverage to individuals who are currently income eligible for HPE, but were denied coverage because they had previously applied and were determined eligible for…
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March 30, 2015
Ensuring a Strong Safety Net For the Remaining Uninsured
dfitzgerald Manual/Report
Advocacy is needed to ensure that remaining uninsured Californians have access to their county safety net programs, and that those programs are strong and robust to meet the needs of residually uninsured residents. This issue brief from NHeLP and the Western Center on Law and Poverty will give an…
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