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July 23, 2013
The Parent’s Right to Know Act Threatens Adolescent Health
dfitzgerald Health Advocate
The Alan Guttmacher Institute recently released its annual report for 2004 showing that five million men and women, 29 percent of whom were teenagers, visited federally funded family planning clinics. These clinics are one of the major sources of reproductive health services for teens, but they are facing…
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July 23, 2013
Circuit Courts Hold Private Citizens Can Enforce the Medicaid Act
dfitzgerald Health Advocate
Circuit Courts Hold Private Citizens Can Enforce the Medicaid Act The Sixth and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeal have issued unanimous opinions rejecting state governments? claims of sovereign immunity from suits by private individuals to enforce the Medicaid Act. Since February of last year, Medicaid beneficiaries and their advocates…
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July 23, 2013
Health Advocate: ACA Reproductive Health Litigation: Comments
Jina Dhillon and dfitzgerald Health Advocate
The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraceptive coverage requirements have been the subject of a number of lawsuits and more than seventy groups and individuals have filed friend-of-the-court briefs defending the women's health provisions. The May edition of the Health Advocate breaks down some the of these arguments and provides…
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April 15, 2013
Health Advocate: The Supreme Court and the ACA’s Medicaid’s Expansion
Jane Perkins Health Advocate
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April 11, 2013
Health Advocate: 2012 Case Round Up
Jane Perkins Health Advocate
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April 11, 2013
Health Advocate: Section 1115 Waivers: More than Meets the Eye
dfitzgerald Health Advocate
This issue of the Health Advocate provides background on Medicaid Section 1115 waivers, which allow participating states an exception to some Medicaid requirements. Section 1115 waivers have been problematic and present a number of issues for health advocates as HHS has allowed states to use this authority to make…
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The Parent’s Right to Know Act Threatens Adolescent Health

Circuit Courts Hold Private Citizens Can Enforce the Medicaid Act

Health Advocate: ACA Reproductive Health Litigation: Comments

Health Advocate: The Supreme Court and the ACA’s Medicaid’s Expansion

Health Advocate: 2012 Case Round Up

Health Advocate: Section 1115 Waivers: More than Meets the Eye