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February 22, 2018
NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis
Andy DiAntonio Comments
The National Health Law Program in comments to the Senate Finance Committee urges lawmakers to support Medicaid and its funding structure in efforts to address the opioid epidemic, which "now kills more individuals than HIV/AIDs did at the height of that epidemic in the 1990s." The National Health Law…
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February 12, 2018
The Personal Stories of Those Affected by Kentucky’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid Waivers
Mara Youdelman Issue Brief, Case Explainer
National Health Law Program Managing Attorney of the D.C. office Mara Youdelman details how Kentucky's Sec. 1115 Medicaid waivers program is harming the lives of the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit challenging HHS's approval of the radical Medicaid waiver project, which includes an onerous work requirement and cuts to…
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December 8, 2017
2018 Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment
Andy DiAntonio Health Advocate
With help from Gordon Bonnyman from the Tennessee Justice Center, NHeLP provides the updated 2018 - A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment - a screening tool and chart to determine if clients may be Medicaid eligible under the Pickle Amendment. The screening process…
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August 4, 2017
Q&A on Non-Medical Transportation and Reproductive Health Services
Amy Chen Consumer Brochure
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July 24, 2017
Children of the Opioid Crisis
Andy DiAntonio Issue Brief
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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July 21, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders
Andy DiAntonio Issue Brief
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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NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis

The Personal Stories of Those Affected by Kentucky’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid Waivers

2018 Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment

Q&A on Non-Medical Transportation and Reproductive Health Services

Children of the Opioid Crisis

Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders