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August 21, 2023
Addressing the Lack of Proper Maternal Mental Health Care for Black Pregnant and Birthing People
Kendajah Cummings and Amy Chen Intern Blogs
* Kendajah Cummings was a communications intern at NHeLP in the summer of 2023.The United States has long struggled with the highest maternal mortality rate of similarly economically situated countries, and in recent decades that rate has been increasing. Black pregnant and birthing people have been disproportionately impacted, facing…
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August 21, 2023
An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)
Priscilla Huang, Madeline Morcelle, and Amy Chen Health Advocate, Guide
In 2019, NHeLP published the 2nd Edition of An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (“Guide”). The Guide is designed to familiarize readers with the basics of the Medicaid program and highlight features that support reproductive and sexual health. Since the Guide was first…
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August 9, 2023
Using Medicaid Lived Experiences to Lean into Equity in Tennessee
Chanda Freeman Working Better Together
This blog is part of our Working Better Together series and was authored by Chanda Freeman, Health Policy Team Program Manager at the Tennessee Justice Center. This blog series is intended to provide our Health Law Partnerships with a platform to highlight successes, challenges, and innovative approaches to furthering…
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August 3, 2023
Aligning Pregnancy-Related Medicaid Coverage Extensions and Medicaid Doula Coverage to Improve Maternal Health
Natasha Rappazzo* and Amy Chen Issue Brief
Medicaid plays a crucial role in ensuring access to care during and after pregnancy. States can help alleviate maternal mortality and severe morbidity by putting in place both Medicaid pregnancy related extensions and Medicaid coverage for doula care. This issue brief shares an update of current state implementation efforts…
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July 31, 2023
Roadmap for State Pharmacy Access Laws
Liz McCaman Taylor and Amy Chen Issue Brief, Manual/Report
This is a roadmap for state advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders to understand how best to achieve legislation, state plan amendments, regulation, and other guidance that allow for pharmacist prescribing and pharmacy access for reproductive and sexual health medications, primarily self-administered contraceptives. *Liz McCaman Taylor is a former Senior…
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July 27, 2023
How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice
Madeline Morcelle Health Equity, Immigrant Health, SRH Health Equity
The United States (U.S.) has a long history of regulating and restricting immigrants’ self-determination over their health, bodies, reproduction, families, and futures. Moreover, Medicaid eligibility has always been shaped by white supremacist notions of which people are worthy of access to health care, a basic human right. In 1996,…
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Addressing the Lack of Proper Maternal Mental Health Care for Black Pregnant and Birthing People

An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)

Roadmap for State Pharmacy Access Laws

How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice

Sexual and Reproductive Health Archive

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Addressing the Lack of Proper Maternal Mental Health Care for Black Pregnant and Birthing People

An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (with 2023 Supplement)

Using Medicaid Lived Experiences to Lean into Equity in Tennessee

Aligning Pregnancy-Related Medicaid Coverage Extensions and Medicaid Doula Coverage to Improve Maternal Health

Roadmap for State Pharmacy Access Laws

How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice