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May 12, 2015
Protect Medicaid Funding: Women’s Health, Issue 2
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
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April 30, 2015
Lessons from CA: Ending Restrictions on Access to Reproductive Health Services
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
In this month's Lessons from California, we highlight the successful efforts by NHeLP and other advocates to ensure that the California Attorney General imposed robust conditions on the sale of six Daughters of Charity hospitals to a secular system to restore and expand reproductive health services at the hospitals…
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March 31, 2015
Lessons from CA: Hospital Presumptive Eligibility
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
In this month's Lessons from California, we highlight the successful efforts by NHeLP and other advocates to reverse an illegal California policy to deny HPE coverage to individuals who are currently income eligible for HPE, but were denied coverage because they had previously applied and were determined eligible for…
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March 16, 2015
Fact Sheet: Accountable Care Organizations in Medicaid
Sarah Somers Issue Brief
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are entities that agree to provide coordinated care to enrollees and are eligible for incentive payments if they improve health and reduce costs. ACOs have been used in Medicare for several years but, until recently, much less so in Medicaid. That is beginning to change.…
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March 6, 2015
Fact Sheet: Medicaid Managed Care Litigation
Sarah Somers Issue Brief
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March 4, 2015
Key Takeaways for Medicaid Health Expense Accounts
David Machledt Issue Brief
States reluctant to accept federal funds for the Affordable Care Act's adult Medicaid expansion have proposed health expense accounts as a mechanism to "brand" their expansion as different. These accounts add administrative complexity, cost, and likely impede beneficiaries' access to care. The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), implemented in 2008…
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