Manual/Report Archive

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August 7, 2019
Beyond the Law: The Challenge of Marketplace Coverage of Abortions
Fabiola Carrión and Alexis Robles Manual/Report
From the Fall of 2017 to Spring of 2018, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) examined if and how Marketplace plans cover abortion services in the states that do not prohibit such coverage. Our research only looked at publicly available information, principally the plans’ Summary of Benefits and Evidence…
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June 21, 2019
Protected: Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer
Candace Gibson and Priscilla Huang Manual/Report, Guide, Toolkit
The reproductive justice framework is rooted in the belief that all individuals and communities should have the resources and power they need to make their own decisions about their bodies, genders, sexualities, families, and lives. Access to Medicaid coverage is vital to fulfulling this framework for LGBTQ people. Medicaid…
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April 29, 2019
Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care
Mara Youdelman Manual/Report
About Language Access: With growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health care and the need for the health care systems to accommodate increasingly diverse patient populations, language access is a matter of national importance. High quality language access services allow individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP)…
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January 31, 2019
Model Contraceptive Equity Act: Legislative Language and Issue Brief
Elizabeth McCaman Issue Brief, Manual/Report
Contraceptive Equity is a policy framework under which contraceptive care is easily accessible and covered at no cost in all health plans. Why is it important? Because of the critical role that family planning plays in improving health outcomes and economic security, and because of the historically inadequate coverage…
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December 14, 2018
Routes to Success for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care
Amy Chen Manual/Report
Racism and racial bias in health care have helped contribute to what is now coming to be understood as a national crisis of maternal deaths for women of color, in particular Black and Indigenous/U.S. Indian women. The statistics are shocking: Black women are three to four times as likely…
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November 9, 2018
A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment
Jennifer Lav Manual/Report, Fact Sheet
With help from Gordon Bonnyman from the Tennessee Justice Center, National Health Law Program provides the updated 2019 – 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…
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Beyond the Law: The Challenge of Marketplace Coverage of Abortions

Protected: Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer

Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care

Model Contraceptive Equity Act: Legislative Language and Issue Brief

Routes to Success for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care

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