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February 9, 2023
Issue Brief: Tele Mental Health in California Schools
T. Nancy Lam Issue Brief
California children and youth are experiencing a mental health crisis, and ensuring that they have access to quality mental health care through different modalities and in various settings is critical. This issue brief summarizes recent telehealth and youth mental health policy development and discusses the survey result of the…
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February 1, 2023
CMS Establishes Guardrails for Section 1115 Demonstrations for Justice-Involved Individuals in California Waiver
Jennifer Lav Issue Brief
Since Medicaid’s inception, the program has not covered services for any adult who is an “inmate of a public institution,." However, CMS recently granted a first-of-its-kind section 1115 “reentry demonstration” in California, creating a temporary, limited carve-out to the "inmate exclusion." Under the terms of the demonstration, California will…
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December 22, 2022
An Advocate’s Guide to Medi-Cal Services
Fabiola De Liban, Amy Chen, Abigail Coursolle, Alicia Emanuel, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, T. Nancy Lam, Kimberly Lewis, Carly Myers, Alexis Robles-Fradet, Skyler Rosellini, and Jasmine Young Guide
The National Health Law Program is pleased to present our updated 2022 Advocates Guide to Medi-Cal Services. NHeLP's Medi-Cal Services Guide, first released in 2020, provides an in-depth description of some of the most important services covered in the Medi-Cal program, including prescription drug services, mental health and substance use…
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April 11, 2022
Medi-Cal Family Therapy
Kimberly Lewis and Rachel Velcoff Hults Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides health care advocates with an overview of the Medi-Cal family therapy services benefit available in Medi-Cal, and provided through Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans and fee for service providers. *This fact sheet was co-authored by Rachel Velcoff Hults, Senior Equity and Access Attorney, Health at the…
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April 6, 2022
New Criteria for Access to Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services for Beneficiaries Under Age 21
Kimberly Lewis and Rachel Velcoff Hults Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides health care advocates and stakeholders with the new criteria for Medi-Cal eligible children and youth under age 21 to obtain specialty mental health services under Medi-Cal, as part of California's new Initiative, California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM). *This fact sheet was co-authored by Rachel…
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November 2, 2021
Amicus brief from National Health Law Program in CVS v. Doe
Elizabeth Edwards and Wayne Turner
In CVS v. Doe, individuals living with HIV challenge a decision by their health insurers to require access to HIV medications only through mail-order pharmacies while other medications are available in-store with pharmacist consultation available. NHeLP, joined by Disability Rights California, argues in this amicus brief ("friend of the…
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Issue Brief: Tele Mental Health in California Schools

CMS Establishes Guardrails for Section 1115 Demonstrations for Justice-Involved Individuals in California Waiver

An Advocate’s Guide to Medi-Cal Services

Medi-Cal Family Therapy

New Criteria for Access to Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services for Beneficiaries Under Age 21

Amicus brief from National Health Law Program in CVS v. Doe