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February 9, 2023
Issue Brief: Tele Mental Health in California Schools
T. Nancy Lam Issue Brief
California children and youth are experiencing a mental health crisis, and ensuring that they have access to quality mental health care through different modalities and in various settings is critical. This issue brief summarizes recent telehealth and youth mental health policy development and discusses the survey result of the…
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February 6, 2023
Ten Ways the “Better Care Better Jobs Act” Helps Older Adults & People with Disabilities
Jennifer Lav and Dania Douglas Issue Brief, Article, Fact Sheet
Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) play a critical role in helping people with disabilities and older adults to receive the care and support they need, at home, in their communities. Years of underfunding and neglect have left HCBS systems struggling to cope with demand, resulting in long-waitlists…
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February 1, 2023
CMS Establishes Guardrails for Section 1115 Demonstrations for Justice-Involved Individuals in California Waiver
Jennifer Lav Issue Brief
Since Medicaid’s inception, the program has not covered services for any adult who is an “inmate of a public institution,." However, CMS recently granted a first-of-its-kind section 1115 “reentry demonstration” in California, creating a temporary, limited carve-out to the "inmate exclusion." Under the terms of the demonstration, California will…
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December 13, 2022
Report: Progress and Gaps in Medicaid Coverage of Telehealth Medication Abortion Services in Six States
Cat Duffy Issue Brief, Manual/Report, Fact Sheet
This report examines the Medicaid telehealth medication abortion (TMAB) coverage policies in six key states (Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Oregon) as case studies for understanding how the Medicaid telehealth coverage landscape has changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the results of our comprehensive survey of…
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November 18, 2022
Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint
Madeline Morcelle and Amy Chen Issue Brief, Article
According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2017–2019, roughly 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. were preventable. Black and Indigenous women and birthing people continue to die at exponentially higher rates than their white counterparts. Equitable, whole-of-government, and systemic solutions…
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November 9, 2022
Current State of Doula Medicaid Implementation Efforts in November 2022
Amy Chen Issue Brief
The National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project has been tracking doula Medicaid implementation efforts since 2019. As of November 2022, there are now more than half of all states that are either actively providing Medicaid coverage for doula care, in the process of implementing such coverage, or that…
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Issue Brief: Tele Mental Health in California Schools

Ten Ways the “Better Care Better Jobs Act” Helps Older Adults & People with Disabilities

CMS Establishes Guardrails for Section 1115 Demonstrations for Justice-Involved Individuals in California Waiver

Report: Progress and Gaps in Medicaid Coverage of Telehealth Medication Abortion Services in Six States

Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint

Current State of Doula Medicaid Implementation Efforts in November 2022