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  • Groups Urge Congress for Quick, Bipartisan Action on CHIP

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    More than 120 public interest groups are calling on Congress to take immediate, bipartisan action to enact a five-year funding extension for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Since its inception in 1997, CHIP, together with Medicaid, has helped to reduce the numbers of uninsured children by a remarkable…

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  • Access to Mental Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs

    Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are a particularly vulnerable population who use an array of mental health services.  CSHCN are at increased risk for chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions and require health and related services beyond that required by children generally. In the fall of…

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  • NHeLP Comments on Arkansas’ Amended Sec. 1115 Waiver Project

    In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services (HHS), NHeLP urges the department to reject Arkansas' amended Sec. 1115 Medicaid waiver demonstration project because it is procedurally and substantively flawed and would flout Medicaid law. For example, Arkansas seeks to impose a work requirement on…

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  • NHeLP Comments on Kentucky’s Modified Sec. 1115 Waiver

    In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Kentucky's modified application for a Sec. 1115 demonstration waiver project. NHeLP's comments incorporate its comments to the Kentucky's initial waiver application. Kentucky's modified waiver application seeks the ability to impose work…

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  • Children of the Opioid Crisis

    The opioid crisis has caused an influx of children in the foster care system, and proposals in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drastically cut federal Medicaid funding threaten the care of the these children, "the hidden victims of the opioid crisis," writes Senior Attorney Jennifer Lav in…

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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders

    California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to ensuring that "individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) have access to to evidence-based, life-saving prevention and treatment services," NHeLP Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado  writes in the tenth Issue Brief of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series. Hernández-Delgado details how the Senate bill…

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