Sentences with phrase «excludes qualified providers»

The legislation also excludes qualified providers, like ProFamilias in Puerto Rico, simply because of their affiliation with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

The federal government, which covers 90 percent of the cost of this program, has made clear to Texas — and to all 50 states — that a rule excluding a qualified provider like Planned Parenthood would not be allowed in the Medicaid program because it restricts the rights of patients in violation of federal law.

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Starting in January 2014, the ACA put a stop to health plans» practice of excluding qualified licensed health care providers, such as CRNAs, from insurance networks solely on the basis of their licensure.

Congress expressly included Federally Qualified Health Centers, a provider of medical or other health services under the Social Security Act section 1861 (s), within its definition of health care provider in section 1171 of the Act; therefore, we can not exclude them from the regulation.

This tactic, which has been replicated in many states, prompted the Obama administration to issue regulations that clarified states can not exclude otherwise qualified abortion providers from the Title X program (see «Recent Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to Come,» 2016).

Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3