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December 13, 2024
Know Your Appeal Rights for the California Children’s Services Program
Skyler Rosellini, Alexis Robles-Fradet, and Kimberly Lewis Fact Sheet
The CCS Program can often be challenging to navigate for families with children with complex health needs. CCS children and their families who experience delays, denials, reductions, discontinuances or other changes to their CCS benefits have the right to appeal, including CCS children with Medi-Cal who have the additional…
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December 2, 2024
Antidiscrimination Protections for People with Disabilities: 2024 Health Care Regulatory Updates
Dania Douglas
In the spring of 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated two rules implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (Section 1557) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) that will improve access to health coverage and services for people…
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November 7, 2024
An Advocate’s Primer on Fighting Barriers to Prescription Drugs for Chronic Conditions Under Dobbs
Madeline Morcelle
Amid escalating attacks on sexual and reproductive rights in the U.S., people are facing increasing barriers to prescription drugs that help manage their chronic conditions or related symptoms. Health care entities are denying or delaying access to these medications because they can end or cause complications to pregnancies, even…
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July 15, 2024
Coalition Letter on California’s Essential Health Benefits Benchmarking
Héctor Hernández-Delgado Comments, Letter
California is currently in the process of evaluating the State's Essential Health Benefits benchmark plan. In response to a request for comment from the Department of Managed Health Care, NHeLP and a coalition of statewide health advocacy organizations submitted a letter explaining why the benchmarking process presents an opportunity…
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July 9, 2024
NHeLP Statement for the Record on the Need to Expand Intensive Home and Community-Based Behavioral Health Services
Geron Gadd and Jennifer Lav Testimony
NHeLP submitted the following Statement for the Record in response to the Senate Committee on Finance's Hearing on "Youth Residential Treatment Facilities: Examining Failures and Evaluating Solutions." The statement highlights the need for focused expansion of quality intensive home and community-based Medicaid services, in order to meaningfully address the…
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May 9, 2024
[Webinar] The Biden Administration’s Final Rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: What You Need to Know
Mara Youdelman, Jennifer Lav, Madeline Morcelle, and Wayne Turner Webinar
The final Section 1557 regulation was recently released by the Office for Civil Rights. Implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, the rule prohibits discrimination in healthcare based on race, ethnicity, language, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. NHeLP staff will provide an overview of what's…
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Know Your Appeal Rights for the California Children’s Services Program

Antidiscrimination Protections for People with Disabilities: 2024 Health Care Regulatory Updates

An Advocate’s Primer on Fighting Barriers to Prescription Drugs for Chronic Conditions Under Dobbs

Coalition Letter on California’s Essential Health Benefits Benchmarking

NHeLP Statement for the Record on the Need to Expand Intensive Home and Community-Based Behavioral Health Services

[Webinar] The Biden Administration’s Final Rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: What You Need to Know