Limited Data Collection for LGBTQI+ Health Promotes Bias
SkyInclusive questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex individuals (SOGII) help identify and address the diverse health needs of LGBTQI+ populations and mitigate health...
View ArticleCMS Announces an $80 Million Funding Opportunity to Rebuild ACA Outreach and...
On June 4, 2021, HHS announced an $80 million dollar notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to bolster Navigator programs in states with a Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) for the 2022 plan year....
View ArticleA Promise Unfulfilled: Automated Medicaid Eligibility Decisions
States have spent millions of dollars building Medicaid eligibility systems that promise automated, real-time, and accurate eligibility decisions. This is a worthy goal because unnecessary paperwork...
View ArticleSurgeries on Intersex Infants are Bad Medicine
Sex, gender, and medical interventions for young people have been widely discussed in state legislatures this year, with a record number of states introducing bills which would limit or prohibit...
View ArticleRace-Based Prediction in Pregnancy Algorithm Is Damaging to Maternal Health
Algorithms Abound In today’s fast-paced health care system, algorithms are ubiquitous, and the provision of maternity care is no different. Maternity care algorithms intend to systematically assist...
View ArticleState 2021-22 Budget Benefits Health of Low-Income Californians
*This blog was compiled by NHeLP Fellow Nancy Hsu in collaboration with the staff in our Los Angeles office On Thursday, July 15, 2021, the California Legislature passed its new budget that expands and...
View ArticleMeeting the Health Care Needs of LGBTQ Immigrants
*This blog was co=authored by NHeLP’s Abbi Coursolle with Angela Griffin (J.D. Candidate, May 2022, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) LGBTQ immigrant individuals face multiple barriers to health care...
View ArticleCalifornia should take steps to allow text- or chat-based telehealth services
By Darian Diepholz (Saint Louis University School of Law class of 2022) & Abbi Coursolle Jane is 20 years old and living in a multi-family home with her parents, three siblings, and grandparents....
View ArticleSeven Ways Proposed Improvements to Medicaid Home and Community-Based...
The Senate and House will soon move forward on landmark Medicaid legislation. One critically important piece of Congress’s reconciliation package is the proposed investment in chronically underfunded...
View ArticleImproving Childhood Health: The Unrealized Potential of Medicaid’s EPSDT Program
**This article was originally published by The Network for Public Health Law. In the United States, millions of children live in poverty and are at a much greater risk of experiencing adverse health...
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NHeLP Celebrates Telehealth Awareness Week, September 19- 25, 2021
September 19-25, 2021 is Telehealth Awareness Week. NHeLP joins many stakeholders, health care providers, and advocates to acknowledge this week and raise awareness of the importance of telehealth....
View ArticleIntroducing NHeLP Principles on Assisted Reproduction
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) has developed a set of principles to guide its advocacy work on assisted reproduction (AR). Founded in 1969, NHeLP protects and advances the health rights of...
View Article2021 State Abortion Coverage Legislative Roundup
*This post was written by Darian Diepholz & Madeline T. Morcelle. Darian Diepholz, MPH, CHES, was a Spitzer intern at the National Health Law Program over the Summer of 2021. She is a JD Candidate...
View ArticleThe Colorado Way: Using the Essential Health Benefits benchmarking process to...
Colorado’s recent expansion of health coverage to require gender-affirming care provides a prime example of how states can use the benchmarking process for Essential Health Benefits (EHB) to address...
View ArticleFor Congress’ Medicaid Coverage Gap Fix, Racial Justice Relies on the Details
What are the lives of Black, Latinx, and other people with low incomes in the Medicaid coverage gap worth to members of Congress? The answer to that question hangs in the balance amid heated...
View ArticleHIV discrimination case before the Supreme Court could have far-reaching...
People living with HIV and AIDS have long experienced the pain of discrimination. Some of us remember those dark days when hospital workers would leave trays of food outside the rooms where AIDS...
View ArticleIncreasing Access to Testosterone to improve the lives of Transmasculine People
Transgender and gender-expansive people in the U.S. face a variety of barriers to accessing the health care they need. Transgender men or gender-expansive people of masculine experience (whom we will...
View ArticleMedicaid Coverage for Doula Care: 2021 State Roundup
Doulas and other birth workers have continued to rise in popularity as a potential intervention for addressing the maternal health and mortality crisis in the United States. While doulas cannot solve...
View ArticleMedicaid Coverage for Doula Care: State Implementation Efforts
Doulas and other birth workers have continued to rise in popularity as a potential intervention for addressing maternal health and mortality issues in the United States. While doulas cannot solve the...
View ArticlePolicy Opportunities to Strengthen Access to Comprehensive and Inclusive Sex...
* This blog was co-authored by Angela Griffin, 3L at Loyola Law (2021 NHeLP legal intern) LGBTQ+ young people need access to comprehensive and inclusive sex education free from discrimination and...
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