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- November 7, 2019
Complaint: AA v. Gee, U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Louisiana
Read moreLouisiana is failing to meet its obligation to provide mental health services to Medicaid-eligible children and families in the state, forcing thousands to unnecessarily cycle in and out of hospitals and psychiatric facilities far away from their homes for extended periods of time, and forcing some to become inappropriately…
- October 16, 2019
NHeLP comments on Indiana’s Serious Mental Illness/Serious Emotional Disturbance Section 1115 Waiver Request
Read moreIn comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Health Law Program urges HHS to reject Indiana’s proposed request to waive the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion. HHS, however, does not have authority to grant the request to waive the IMD exclusion because Indiana has not…
- June 4, 2019
Public Comments on Medicaid’s Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) Exclusion
Read moreAs part of Support for Patients and Communities Act of 2018 (Support Act), Congress requested MACPAC submit a report on IMDs, and include any recommendations for changes to the exclusion. Any proposed changes to the IMD exclusion should be made with the utmost caution, and without undermining the purpose…
- March 15, 2019
Advocate Fact Sheet: Monitoring Plan’s Provision of Mental Health services to Medi-Cal Beneficiaries
Read moreCalifornia has two managed care plans that are responsible for providing mental health care to beneficiaries of Med-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. Senior Attorney Abigail Coursolle, in this fact sheet, provides guidance and tools for California health care advocates to monitor and ensure that the state's managed care plans…
- January 30, 2019
Health Care Advocates’ Vision for Transforming Access to Medi-Cal Mental Health Care
Read moreThe National Health Law Program and seven public interest health care advocates in California in a Jan. 30 letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed their interest in working with him to "ensure that Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal as well as those in local Mental Health Services Act-funded programs have…
- November 7, 2018
Comments to DHS Regarding Indefinite Detention of Immigrant Children
Read moreThe National Health Law Program urges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw a proposal to allow DHS to detain children with their families for the entirety of their immigration proceedings--in effect, indefinitely. Detention is neither generally safe nor…