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February 23, 2023
Issue Brief Series on California’s Reparations Task Force Newly Released Interim Report
Jasmine Young and Skyler Rosellini Issue Brief
On September 30, 2020, the California Reparations Task Force was formed, which is the first of its kind in the nation. Its purpose is to study and develop reparation proposals for the California Legislature that would address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians. The Task Force's interim…
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February 19, 2023
Protecting People with Disabilities and People with Limited English Proficiency during the Unwinding of the Continuous Coverage Provision
Elizabeth Edwards and Mara Youdelman Issue Brief, Fact Sheet
State planning for the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage provision needs to include evaluation of a state's processes, policies, and systems for disability and language access. Failing to plan and monitor for disability and language access is the very type of disregard the non-discrimination protections were intended to…
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January 31, 2023
Reforming Medicaid Coverage Toward Reproductive Justice
Madeline Morcelle Article
This article appeared in Volume 48, Issue 2–3 of the American Journal of Law & Medicine, North America’s leading health law journal devoted exclusively to the analysis of issues at the nexus of law and medicine. In this article, NHeLP Staff Attorney Madeline T. Morcelle provides an account of…
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November 18, 2022
Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint
Madeline Morcelle and Amy Chen Issue Brief, Article
According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2017–2019, roughly 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. were preventable. Black and Indigenous women and birthing people continue to die at exponentially higher rates than their white counterparts. Equitable, whole-of-government, and systemic solutions…
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November 1, 2022
Joint comment letter: Temporary Increase in Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) in Response to the COVID–19 Public Health Emergency (PHE); Reopening of Public Comment Period
Miriam Delaney Heard and Wayne Turner Comments
In the last days of the Trump administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that creates exceptions to the Medicaid continuous coverage requirements in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The IFR allows states to reduce benefits and terminate eligibility in…
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November 1, 2022
NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information: Promoting Efficiency, Reducing Burden, and Advancing Equity within CMS Programs
Charly Gilfoil Comments
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Issue Brief Series on California’s Reparations Task Force Newly Released Interim Report

Protecting People with Disabilities and People with Limited English Proficiency during the Unwinding of the Continuous Coverage Provision

Reforming Medicaid Coverage Toward Reproductive Justice

Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint

Joint comment letter: Temporary Increase in Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) in Response to the COVID–19 Public Health Emergency (PHE); Reopening of Public Comment Period

NHeLP Comments on CMS Request for Information: Promoting Efficiency, Reducing Burden, and Advancing Equity within CMS Programs