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Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) joined a group of health care organizations in sending a letter to Senate and House Leadership, urging Congress to use the upcoming reconciliation legislation to pursue a long-term solution that ensures all individuals who rely on Medicaid for pregnancy-related care have access to this coverage for a full year…

Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) joined a group of health care organizations in sending a letter to House Leadership, urging Congress to include a state option for 12 months’ continuous eligibility for all people covered in Medicaid and CHIP in the reconciliation package currently under development. Read the letter here.

Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) wrote a letter to Congressman Frank Pallone, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Senator Patty Murray, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in response to their request for information on design considerations for legislation to develop a public…

MHPA joined approximately 500 organizations in signing a letter urging Congress to make the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) permanent. Read letter

MHPA joined several other health care organizations in sending a letter to leadership on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, urging the Senate to confirm Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon as the next Assistant Secretary for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Read the full letter here.

Medicaid Health Plans of America joined several major Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) and Medicaid MCO Trade Associations in sending a letter to Congressional Leaders requesting that Congress pass legislation this year to make permanent the state option for pregnant women to receive Medicaid care for 12 months postpartum. Read the full letter here.

Today, MHPA with the Partnership for Medicaid – a nonpartisan, nationwide coalition of organizations representing health care clinicians, safety net health plans, and counties – sent a letter to Congress in support of the States Achieve Medicaid Expansion (SAME) Act, legislation that would allow states that did not immediately expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care…

MHPA and other members of the Partnership for Medicaid write a letter to the leadership of the House Subcommittee on Health, urging the Committee to pass legislation to address longstanding inequities in Medicaid affecting the territories. Read Letter

MHPA sent a letter to the House Energy & Commerce Committee leadership in support of several Medicaid provisions in the recently released legislative recommendations for budget reconciliation. MHPA strongly supports several important provisions in the committee print, as outlined in the letter. Read Letter