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January 6, 2021
Meeting the Moment: Understanding EPSDT and Improving Implementation in California to Address Growing Mental Health Needs
Kimberly Lewis and Rachel Velcoff Hults Issue Brief, Manual/Report, Fact Sheet, Guide
Children and youth across the country are facing an escalating mental health crisis. The events of 2020 have added new and complex stressors, exacerbating mental health challenges while also creating new barriers to accessing care. Unmet mental health needs have grave consequences for individuals, their families, and entire communities.…
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May 21, 2020
Building A Successful Program for Medi-Cal Coverage For Doula Care: Findings From A Survey of Doulas in California
Amy Chen and Alexis Robles-Fradet Guide
The National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project seeks to improve health outcomes for pregnant Medicaid enrollees by ensuring that all pregnant individuals enrolled in Medicaid who want access to a doula will have one. As part of this project, the National Health Law Program is proud to publish…
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March 19, 2020
Overview on Using Medicaid to Respond to COVID-19
Leonardo Cuello Fact Sheet, Guide
Several major paths exist for states to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic using Medicaid. States have numerous points of discretionary authority, some special discretionary authority that arises in emergency scenarios, normal state plan amendment (SPA) options, and waiver authorities (particularly section 1135 authority). This overview is intended to help…
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February 11, 2020
An Advocate’s Guide to Medi-Cal Services
Abigail Coursolle, Alicia Emanuel, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Priscilla Huang, and Kimberly Lewis Guide
California’s Medi-Cal program provides free or low-cost health care coverage to more than 14 million low-income adults, families with children, seniors, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, children in foster care, and former foster youth up to age 26. Medi-Cal, like other Medicaid programs, covers a wide range of health…
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November 4, 2019
A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment: 2020 Update
Jennifer Lav and Wayne Turner Guide
With help from Gordon Bonnyman from the Tennessee Justice Center and National Health Law Program Policy Fellow Hannah Eichner, National Health Law Program provides the updated 2020 – A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment – a screening tool and chart to…
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September 17, 2019
An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program
Priscilla Huang Health Advocate, Guide
An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program (“Guide”) will familiarize readers with the basics of the Medicaid program and highlight features that support reproductive and sexual health. Since the Guide was first published in February 2010, the United States Congress passed and President Obama…
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Meeting the Moment: Understanding EPSDT and Improving Implementation in California to Address Growing Mental Health Needs

Building A Successful Program for Medi-Cal Coverage For Doula Care: Findings From A Survey of Doulas in California

Overview on Using Medicaid to Respond to COVID-19

An Advocate’s Guide to Medi-Cal Services

A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment: 2020 Update

An Advocate’s Guide to Reproductive and Sexual Health in the Medicaid Program