Starting in tax year 2026, OBBBA eliminates the cap on advanced premium tax credit repayments, meaning that individuals may have to repay excess APTCs if their actual income exceeds their projected income. Learn more from our latest Timely Tip to Safeguard Medicaid: https://healthlaw.org/timely-tips-to-safeguard-medicaid/
Starting in tax year 2026, OBBBA eliminates the cap on advanced premium tax credit repayments, meaning that individuals may have to repay excess APTCs if their actual income exceeds their projected income. Learn more from our latest Timely Tip to Safeguard Medicaid: healthlaw.org/timely-tips-...
05.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Trump administration’s move to give ICE access to Medicaid data puts hospitals and states in an impossible position, and immigrant patients at risk. NHeLP’s Sarah Grusin warns: “Once this information is submitted, you can’t protect it from disclosure at this point.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/h...
05.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Advocates’ Guide to the BH-CONNECT Initiative: ServicesHéctor Hernández-Delgado & Carly Myers
California's Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized Networks of Equitable Care and Treatment (BH-CONNECT) demonstration, approved in late 2024, seeks to help low-income individuals navigate an increasingly complex behavioral health system. healthlaw.org/resource/adv...
05.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Doula Medicaid Project
The National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project seeks to improve health outcomes for pregnant Medicaid enrollees by ensuring that all pregnant individuals enrolled in Medicaid who want access...
NHeLP supports and advocates for full spectrum doula care, which we define as doula care for all the ways in which a pregnancy can end, including doula care for prenatal, labor/delivery, the postpartum period, and doula care for abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. healthlaw.org/doulamedicai...
04.02.2026 17:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are excited to share our interactive map depicting current state efforts at expanding Medicaid coverage of doula care. https://healthlaw.org/doulamedicaidproject/map/
We are excited to share our interactive map depicting current state efforts at expanding Medicaid coverage of doula care. healthlaw.org/doulamedicai...
04.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Open Enrollment ended—but the ACA affordability crisis hasn’t. With Congress letting enhanced tax credits expire, average monthly premiums will more than double, hitting older, rural & middle-income people hardest. https://healthlaw.org/the-fight-for-affordable-marketplace-coverage-continues/
Open Enrollment ended, but the ACA affordability crisis hasn’t. With Congress letting enhanced tax credits expire, average monthly premiums will more than double, hitting older, rural & middle-income people hardest. healthlaw.org/the-fight-fo...
04.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NHeLP condemns racial profiling, violent enforcement actions, and policies that tear families apart. We stand with community advocates, organizers, and the helpers working for justice and due process for all.. https://healthlaw.org/news/nhelp-denounces-ice-violence/
30.01.2026 20:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OBBBA requires states to use already available information (such as electronic data sources) to verify compliance with work requirements. Learn more about how advocates can push for accountability and accuracy of these sources at: https://healthlaw.org/timely-tips-to-safeguard-medicaid/
29.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Mental Health & MAMA Act would ensure no-cost mental health & SUD coverage from pregnancy through 1 year postpartum and extend continuity of care protections. 🔗 https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/baldwin-shaheen-moore-lead-effort-to-support-pregnant-and-postpartum-mothers/
28.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NHeLP is seeking a full-time Policy Analyst for a three-year (36 months) term. This is a project-based position for the California Policy team. https://nationalhealthlawprogram.applytojob.com/apply/VeieYrUHvO/Health-Care-Project-Policy-Analyst?source=Our%20Career%20Page%20Widget
28.01.2026 19:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Summary of NHeLP’s Doula Medicaid Project 2025 inaugural webinar series lifting up best practices for Medicaid coverage of doula care. By Amy Chen 🔗 https://healthlaw.org/resource/doula-medicaid-project-2025-webinar-series-summaries-reflections/
27.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For this week’s Timely Tip to Safeguard Medicaid, learn more about what advocates can still do to protect coverage for lawfully residing children and pregnant people in their states: https://healthlaw.org/timely-tips-to-safeguard-medicaid/
22.01.2026 19:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to NHeLP! Anona Neal is a Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy Associate with the National Health Law Program. She will be supporting NHeLP’s Sexual and Reproductive Health team
21.01.2026 19:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NHeLP is seeking a full-time Policy Analyst for a three-year (36 months) term. This is a project-based position for the California Policy team. https://nationalhealthlawprogram.applytojob.com/apply/VeieYrUHvO/Health-Care-Project-Policy-Analyst?source=Our%20Career%20Page%20Widget
20.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this Q&A series, NHeLP will analyze the role of due process in implementation. This first set of Q&As focuses on Notice. By Amanda Avery and Katy DeBriere https://healthlaw.org/resource/medicaid-work-requirements-due-process-qa-series-notice/
20.01.2026 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
NHeLP comments strongly opposing HHS' proposal to exclude gender dysphoria from the definition of disability, because it is inconsistent with congressional intent,the plain language of Section 504; and discrimination https://healthlaw.org/resource/nhelp-comments-on-2025-proposed-section-504-changes/
20.01.2026 18:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our latest "Timely Tip to Safeguard Medicaid" - how OBBBA eliminates premium tax credits for lawfully present immigrants. Learn more at https://healthlaw.org/timely-tips-to-safeguard-medicaid/
15.01.2026 20:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New resource from NHeLP outlines key data metrics California should include in its Medi-Cal OBBBA/H.R. 1 dashboard to track coverage losses and impacts statewide. By Kim Lewis & Skyler Rosellini 🔗 https://healthlaw.org/resource/ca-key-metrics-for-h-r-1-medicaid-dashboard/
15.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OBBBA tightens provider taxes that fund Medicaid, and new CMS guidance goes even further. A new fact sheet. By G. Doetzer, NHeLP & Community Catalyst https://healthlaw.org/resource/cms-preliminary-provider-tax-guidance-is-more-restrictive-than-h-r-1-what-advocates-should-know-and-what-they-can-do/
14.01.2026 21:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NHeLP’s Geraldine Doetzer warns Congress’s delay on ACA subsidies hurts families now: “People can’t wait or float the cost while lawmakers debate.” Millions already locked into 2026 plans. https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/01/congress-weighs-future-of-expired-health-care-subsidies/
14.01.2026 20:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ENTREVISTA EN RADIO BILINGÜE: Héctor Hernández-Delgado (NHeLP) explica cómo el fin de subsidios disparará primas y dejará a al menos 1 millón de latinos sin seguro. Escucha: https://radiobilingue.org/es/blog/la-ultraderecha-avanza-en-el-continente
13.01.2026 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 We’re hiring! NHeLP is seeking a motivated Paralegal to support our Enforcement & Litigation team. Join a fast-paced, mission-driven environment advancing health justice. Deadline: Jan. 16, 2026 (or 200 apps. Apply: https://nationalhealthlawprogram.applytojob.com/apply/rJbuLL0C0Y/Paralegal
12.01.2026 21:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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12.01.2026 17:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Using automation to facilitate OBBBA implementation will be imperative in mitigating the immense burden of the law’s new Medicaid-related policies. By S. Hartly https://healthlaw.org/resource/a-technical-guide-for-states-to-reduce-procedural-terminations-from-medicaids-work-reporting-requirements/
12.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The NHeLP Board announces Jennifer Cannistra as our next Executive Director, starting Feb 2026. “I am honored to be joining NHeLP. At a time when so many people face barriers to health care.https://healthlaw.org/news/nhelp-board-of-directors-announces-jennifer-cannistra-as-new-executive-director/
The NHeLP Board announces Jennifer Cannistra as our next Executive Director, starting Feb 2026. “I am honored to be joining NHeLP, at a time when so many people face barriers to health care.https://healthlaw.org/news/nhelp-board-of-directors-announces-jennifer-cannistra-as-new-executive-director/
12.01.2026 17:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NHeLP joined 400+ civil rights groups urging Congress to rein in ICE and Border Patrol through FY2026 budget negotiations. https://www.aclu.org/documents/coalition-letter-urging-congress-to-refuse-to-fund-ice-without-reforms
12.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We engage in comprehensive advocacy to expand health care access and promote health equity for vulnerable Floridians.
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We use the law to advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people by defending progress, disrupting extremism, and building for the future. Join us at democracyforward.org
Research + evaluation at U of Iowa College of Law
Advancing evidence-based policies and universally designed communities to eliminate disparities and support health, stability, and independence for people of all abilities.
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Equity Research & Innovation Center (ERIC) @ Yale focuses on health/care disparities research. Founded by Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith. Posts are from ERIC.
We create and advance research on the health effects of laws and policies. Based at Temple University Beasley School of Law https://bit.ly/m/TempleLegalEpi
We educate, mobilize, and support students, nurses and midwives to become social change agents in sexual & reproductive healthcare.
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Bridging research and policy. We turn findings into effective solutions for autistic people and those with developmental disabilities.
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We advocate for the civil rights, full inclusion, and equality of children and adults with mental disabilities.
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Uplifting the bodily autonomy & healthy sexual development of youth who experience(d) #fostercare. A National Center for Youth Law project.
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Journalist in residence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Contributor @politico magazine. KFF “What the Health” podcast. Forthcoming book on
media, misinformation, public health. I write about birth, death and everything in between.
PPC creates the tools that legislators, leaders, grassroots orgs, and the people of PA need to expand democracy, secure freedom, & seek economic justice.
DRM advances justice and equality by enforcing rights and expanding opportunities for people with disabilities in Maine.
We are a regional association of community health centers that work together and support the involvement of our communities in achieving comprehensive, accessible health care and improved outcomes for everyone in the East Bay, California.
IM4US is an inter-professional organization, fiscally-sponsored by Tides Center, a 501c3 nonprofit. With outreach, education, research, and advocacy, we provide support to a community of diverse health practitioners working with underserved communities.
https://aahd.us/linktree/
AAHD is dedicated to ensuring health equity for children and adults with disabilities through policy, research, education and dissemination at the federal, state and community level.
We are the national membership association for the congressionally mandated Protection & Advocacy Systems and Client Assistance Programs. https://linktr.ee/ndrnadvocates
Providing free civil legal services to vulnerable and underserved Delawareans, helping to ensure equal access to justice.
www.declasi.org
As the first think tank of its kind, the Center on Reproductive Rights & Justice at Berkeley Law serves as a resource, liaison, and partner to reproductive rights & justice organizations throughout the United States.
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