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  • October 3, 2016

    The Data Project

    NHeLP's Reproductive Health Data and Insurance Accountability Project (the Data Project) and the Women's Law Project on October 3 published a guide on abortion coverage for low-income women, and physicians in Pennsylvania. The guide details the extent of Medicaid coverage of abortion care in the state, administered by Pennsylvania…

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  • September 23, 2016

    Health Advocate: States Expand Coverage of Contraception

    States are taking the initiative to bolster federal health care policy intended to provide comprehensive contraceptive coverage, Staff Attorney Agata Pelka writes in the September Health Advocate. Pelka states, "Access to quality, comprehensive health care is critical for women to be equal, participating, and productive members of society." While…

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  • August 18, 2016

    Letters to Walgreens & SSM Health Medical Group

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    In letters to Walgreens and Catholic-sponsored SSM Health Medical Group, NHeLP and the ACLU of Illinois, ACLU of Missouri and MergerWatch ask for assurances that in-store clinics in St. Louis and Illinois operated by SSM Health do not adhere to religious directives and override medical standard of care.

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  • June 23, 2016

    Issue Brief 5: Medicaid Managed Care Final Regulations and Reproductive Health

    In this issue brief, NHeLP Staff Attorney Catherine McKee reviews the recently finalized Medicaid managed care regulations, and how they impact access to quality reproductive health services. She notes the new rules are "designed to increase access to reproductive health providers and services," but says state health care advocates…

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  • May 18, 2016

    Fact Sheet: The ACA Contraceptive Coverage Rule

    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most health insurance plans to provide coverage for a broad range of women's preventive health services without cost-sharing, including all Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved methods of contraception, related counseling, follow-up, side-effect management, and device insertion and removal at an in-network provider. This…

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  • March 24, 2016

    NHeLP Amicus Brief: Planned Parenthood v. Selig (8th Cir.)

    Brief of the National Health Law Program, American Public Health Association, Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and Sexuality Education and Information Council of the U.S. (SEICUS) as amici…

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