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April 20, 2023
Risks and Rewards of Demographic Data Collection: How Effective Data Privacy Can Promote Health Equity
Charly Gilfoil, Naomi G. Goldberg, Patrick L. Mason, Mary Lou Breslin, Silvia Yee, and Georgia Burke Manual/Report, Fact Sheet, Guide
This four-part report series is a joint project of the National Health Law Program, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Justice in Aging, Movement Advancement Project, and Race Forward Data enables us to identify and study health programs and monitor trends in population health as never before.…
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April 3, 2023
National Health Law Program Comments on the DEA’s Proposed Rule on Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Medications
Madeline Morcelle and Skyler Rosellini Comments
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) submitted comments on the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, "Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances When the Practitioner and the Patient Have Not Had a Prior In-Person Medical Evaluation." NHeLP believes that all people should have access to the health care…
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March 13, 2023
NHeLP Comments on the HHS Prior Authorization Proposed Rule (2023)
Wayne Turner, David Machledt, and Sarah Somers Comments
In these comments on the Prior Authorization Proposed Rule, NHeLP urges HHS to go further to curb the abuse of prior authorization as a cost savings strategy that endangers patients’ health. NHeLP supports efforts to streamline prior authorization processing and bring greater transparency to denial rates and the clinical…
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March 7, 2023
National Health Law Program Comments on HHS’s Proposed Changes to Health Care Refusal Regulations
Madeline Morcelle, Charly Gilfoil, Cat Duffy, and Héctor Hernández-Delgado Comments
The National Health Law Program submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement federal health care refusal laws, called "Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes.” Our comments thank HHS for proposing to rescind the most harmful…
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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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October 11, 2022
Webinar: Gender-Affirming Care 101 for California Advocates
Skyler Rosellini and Abigail Coursolle Webinar
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Risks and Rewards of Demographic Data Collection: How Effective Data Privacy Can Promote Health Equity

National Health Law Program Comments on the DEA’s Proposed Rule on Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Medications

NHeLP Comments on the HHS Prior Authorization Proposed Rule (2023)

National Health Law Program Comments on HHS’s Proposed Changes to Health Care Refusal Regulations

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

Webinar: Gender-Affirming Care 101 for California Advocates