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September 8, 2021
NHeLP Letter to Congressional Leadership on HCBS and Coverage Gap
Elizabeth G. Taylor, Jennifer Lav, Madeline Morcelle, David Machledt, Mara Youdelman, and Dania Douglas Letter
As the Senate and House move forward on landmark Medicaid legislation, the National Health Law Program urges Congressional leaders to invest the resources necessary to meaningfully increase home and community-based services (HCBS) and to equitably close the Medicaid coverage gap. While we understand that at some points in the…
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August 26, 2021
Testimony of NHeLP’s Madeline Morcelle at Congressional Briefing on the Lift the Bar Act of 2021
Madeline Morcelle Testimony
Madeline Morcelle, a staff attorney in the National Health Law Program’s Washington, DC office, presented at a congressional briefing to announce the introduction of the Lift the Bar Act of 2021. The briefing, sponsored by the Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign, was held on August 26, 2021. At the briefing,…
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August 20, 2021
NHeLP comments on Updating Payment Parameters Rule
Wayne Turner, Dania Douglas, and Fabiola De Liban Regulations and Laws
In the Updating Payment Parameters Rule (UPP Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes several important changes to enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. These changes include extending the open enrollment period, establishing a year-around Special Enrollment Period for low income persons, restoring key features…
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June 29, 2021
Webinar: Quality and Accountability in Medicaid Managed Care — Where We Stand in 2021
David Machledt Issue Brief, Webinar
This webinar presents a recent series of papers that provide tips on leveraging managed care accountability tools, locating state quality data, and improving state reporting on health disparities. This includes updates on current implementation status of the 2016 Medicaid managed care regulations as well as links to various state…
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June 28, 2021
Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result
Madeline Morcelle Article
Expanding Medicaid is an urgent moral, anti-racist, health equity, reproductive justice, and economic imperative. Yet today, policymakers in twelve states refuse to do so—a discriminatory political choice intertwined with racism in policymaking. The result is the Medicaid coverage gap: an estimated 4.4 million people with low incomes—nearly all of…
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June 10, 2021
NHeLP AHRQ Comments
Elizabeth Edwards, David Machledt, Skyler Rosellini, and Liz McCaman Taylor Comments, Issue Brief
In these comments, NHeLP responds to a request for information from AHRQ regarding the use of clinical algorithms that have the potential to introduce racial/ethnic bias into healthcare delivery. Using our long history of litigation and advocacy on issues that involve the use of automated decision-making systems, including algorithms,…
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NHeLP Letter to Congressional Leadership on HCBS and Coverage Gap

Testimony of NHeLP’s Madeline Morcelle at Congressional Briefing on the Lift the Bar Act of 2021

NHeLP comments on Updating Payment Parameters Rule

Webinar: Quality and Accountability in Medicaid Managed Care — Where We Stand in 2021

Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result

NHeLP AHRQ Comments