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May 3, 2022
Scope of Practice and Medicaid: State Flexibility to Cover Advanced Practice Care
Liz McCaman Taylor and Cathren Cohen Health Advocate, Issue Brief, NHeLP Matters
Advanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care practitioners, other than physicians, who may practice independently and bill directly under state law. Public health research supports making a variety of services available through APPs. There are two primary state policy levers that impact Medicaid enrollees’ access to advanced practice…
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May 2, 2022
NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information on Access to Coverage and Care in Medicaid & CHIP
Charly Gilfoil, Cat Duffy, Abigail Coursolle, Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, Jennifer Lav, Elizabeth Edwards, and David Machledt Comments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to help ensure equitable access to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). In comments, NHeLP responds to the RFI questions on issues ranging from eligibility and…
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April 27, 2022
National Health Law Program Comments on Consent for Sterilization Form
Cat Duffy Comments
The Consent for Sterilization policy has provided much-needed protection against coercive sterilization. The United States has an ugly history of forcibly sterilizing low-income people. BIPOC communities, immigrants, people in detention facilities, and people with disabilities were especially targeted to advance eugenics principles. In comments to the Department of Health…
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April 14, 2022
NHeLP comments on Oregon’s application for renewal of the Oregon Health Plan § 1115(a) Demonstration Waiver for 2022-2027
Sarah Somers and Wayne Turner Comments
In public comments, NHeLP expresses support for Oregon's decision to abandon its waiver of EPSDT. However, NHeLP strongly opposes Oregon's proposal to exclude outpatient prescription drugs approved under the FDA's accelerated approval pathway. Denying Medicaid enrollees access to effective break-through therapies would harm people with serious or life-threatening medical…
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April 12, 2022
NHeLP Comments on the Proposed Update to the CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Héctor Hernández-Delgado and Alexis Robles-Fradet Comments
In these comments to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NHeLPs conveys its support for the CDC's proposal to update the 2016 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. NHeLP's comments highlight the negative consequences the 2016 guidelines have had on access to medically necessary opioid medications for pain, particularly for…
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April 8, 2022
More Transparency Needed to Ensure Medicaid Beneficiaries Have Access to Necessary Off-Label Prescription Drugs
Abigail Coursolle Issue Brief
Under federal law, state Medicaid programs are required to cover (with a few exceptions) outpatient prescription drugs for “medically accepted indications.” Medically accepted indications are both those that are included on the drug’s label by the FDA as part of the approval process, and certain “off-label” uses.Medicaid programs are…
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Scope of Practice and Medicaid: State Flexibility to Cover Advanced Practice Care

NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information on Access to Coverage and Care in Medicaid & CHIP

NHeLP comments on Oregon’s application for renewal of the Oregon Health Plan § 1115(a) Demonstration Waiver for 2022-2027

NHeLP Comments on the Proposed Update to the CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

More Transparency Needed to Ensure Medicaid Beneficiaries Have Access to Necessary Off-Label Prescription Drugs

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Scope of Practice and Medicaid: State Flexibility to Cover Advanced Practice Care

NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information on Access to Coverage and Care in Medicaid & CHIP

National Health Law Program Comments on Consent for Sterilization Form

NHeLP comments on Oregon’s application for renewal of the Oregon Health Plan § 1115(a) Demonstration Waiver for 2022-2027

NHeLP Comments on the Proposed Update to the CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

More Transparency Needed to Ensure Medicaid Beneficiaries Have Access to Necessary Off-Label Prescription Drugs