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August 3, 2017
Medicaid EPSDT Litigation Trends
Jane Perkins Issue Brief
Legal Director Jane Perkins explores litigation involving Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program. Perkins provides a brief overview of EPSDT -- for example the foundation of the program requires mandatory screenings for children and youth under 21. The medical screens are: vision, hearing, dental, and…
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August 2, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California
Amy Chen Issue Brief
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to the health of millions of pregnant women in the state, providing access to quality prenatal care and screenings, labor and delivery, and postpartum care, as well as comprehensive abortion care. Designed to address the unique health care needs of low-income women, Medi-Cal…
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July 24, 2017
Children of the Opioid Crisis
dfitzgerald 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
dfitzgerald 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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July 14, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Access to Providers
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
Senate Republicans' effort to radically slash federal Medicaid funding would threaten the ability of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to ensure robust health care providers' participation in Medi-Cal writes Senior Attorney Abbi Coursolle in the ninth Issue Brief of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series. "In trying to make up for…
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July 7, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Enrollment & Continuity of Coverage
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
The Senate Republican's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid funding, would "jeopardize the health and financial security of more than 12 million Californians -- one third of the state's residents -- who rely on Medi-Cal ," writes Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk in the eighth Issue…
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Medicaid EPSDT Litigation Trends

Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California

Children of the Opioid Crisis

Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders

Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Access to Providers

Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Enrollment & Continuity of Coverage