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- January 6, 2021
Meeting the Moment: Understanding EPSDT and Improving Implementation in California to Address Growing Mental Health Needs
Read moreChildren and youth across the country are facing an escalating mental health crisis. The events of 2020 have added new and complex stressors, exacerbating mental health challenges while also creating new barriers to accessing care. Unmet mental health needs have grave consequences for individuals, their families, and entire communities.…
- December 3, 2020
NHeLP Comments on HHS Regulations Rule (aka SUNSET Rule)
Read moreIn the Regulations Rule, HHS seeks to retroactively impose a mandatory expiration date on an estimated 18,000 duly promulgated regulations. Even long-standing rules would be automatically rescinded unless they survive a complex process of assessment and review. Programs like Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) could be…
- October 13, 2020
Fact Sheet EPSDT Litigation Trends & Docket
Read moreThis Fact Sheet summarizes the Medicaid Act’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit. It then highlights enforcement trends and provides a docket giving citation and annotation to published federal and state court cases. While occasionally mentioning procedural rulings, such as decisions on motions to dismiss or…
- August 15, 2018
National Health Law Program Comments to HHS on Maine’s HIV/AIDS Waiver Project
Read moreNational Health Law Program in comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urges the agency to reject portions of Maine's Sec. 1115 Medicaid waiver plan called "Health Care Reform Demonstration for Individuals with HIV/AIDS," because they run afoul of the HHS Secretary's authority to waive certain…
- August 3, 2017
Medicaid EPSDT Litigation Trends
Read moreLegal 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…
- May 12, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Children’s Health in California
Read moreIn the first of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series, NHeLP Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk details the importance of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to children's health in the state. The first Issue Brief, "Children's Health in California," notes that 5.7 million rely on Medi-Cal and that 42 percent of…
