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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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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…
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November 2, 2018
Navigating The Challenges of Medi-Cal’s Mental Health Services in California: An Examination of Care Coordination, Referrals and Dispute Resolution
Kimberly Lewis, Abigail Coursolle, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, Hayley Penan, and Alexis Robles-Fradet Manual/Report
Medi-Cal plays a crucial role in providing mental health services in California. In 2015, over 600,000 Californians – approximately two percent of the State’s population – received mental health services paid for by Medi-Cal. While Medi-Cal plays an important role in delivering necessary mental health services to Californians, many…
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January 31, 2018
Fact Sheet: Mental Health Parity Compliance in Medicaid
Abbi Coursolle and Elizabeth Edwards Manual/Report
Federal laws enacted by Congress mandate that health insurers provide care and treatment of mental health conditions and substance use disorders on par with the treatment and services provided for other health care conditions. In this fact sheet. NHeLP Senior Attorneys Elizabeth Edwards and Abigail Coursolle explain how these…
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June 20, 2017
Threats to Public Health Under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
Fabiola De Liban Manual/Report
Evidence shows that funding public health initiatives not only improves health outcomes, it also reduces health care costs. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains several mechanisms to fund public health initiatives. The largest of these is the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF). The PPHF was created by ACA…
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Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care

Routes to Success for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care

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

Navigating The Challenges of Medi-Cal’s Mental Health Services in California: An Examination of Care Coordination, Referrals and Dispute Resolution

Fact Sheet: Mental Health Parity Compliance in Medicaid

Threats to Public Health Under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)