Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) – Quality Measures – AAHD and Lakeshore Submission to CMS
AAHD and Lakeshore Foundation sumbitted comments to CMS on Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Quality Measures; AAHD-Lakeshore submitted on May 18 and the April 27 CMS Federal Register proposal for public comment.
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Grievance Process
Strengthening the HCBS Grievance Process webinar slides; NHeLP (National Health Law Program) – May 19.
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Section 1915 © (11) Waiver Authority – Waiving Institutional Care Requirement
Working Families Tax Cut Legislation 1915(c) (11) Waiver Authority Public Listening Session; CMS – May 19. Working Families Tax Cut Legislation (2025) authority; implementation begins July 1, 2028.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1): Work and Community Engagement Requirements – State Reporting of Work Requirement Outcomes: Do’s and Don’ts
Recommendations for State Reporting of Work Requirement Outcomes: Do’s and Dont’s brief; NHeLP (National Health Law Program) – May 11.
Building Sustainable Long-Term Care State Infrastructure
Building Sustainable Long-Term Care Infrastructure Across States brief; National Conference of State Legislatures – April 28.
Improving Long Term Care – 17 U.S. Senators
Wyden, Senate Democrats Unveil Plans to Improve Long-Term Care Amid Republican Attacks news article and letter to Senate colleagues; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance – May 20.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1) – Significance for People with Disabilities
The Grassroots Project – An Overview of H.R. 1 webinar slides; Human Services Research Institute (HSRI) – April 13.
Losing Medicaid Impacts on Medicare Enrollment
Long-Term Changes in Health Care Use and Outcomes Among Groups Maintaining Versus Losing Medicaid Upon Medicare Enrollment article; Milbank Memorial Fund – Milbank Quarterly – February 27.
Medicaid: Proposed Rules Cap on Managed Care State Directed Payments and FFS Targeted Practitioner Payments
Medicaid Proposed Rules Cap on Managed Care State Directed Payments: Modern Medical Alliance
Modern Medicaid Alliance Statement on Proposed Rule Related to Medicaid State Directed Payments; Modern Medicaid Alliance (AAHD and Lakeshore Foundation participate) – May 21.
Medicaid Limits on Managed Care State Directed Payments Harm People with Disabilities
OBBBA Harms People with Disabilities: Limits on State Directed Payments brief; NHeLP (National Health Law Program) – November 2025.
Federal Medicaid Policy Changes: Privacy, Parity, and Substance Use
Medicaid Policy Changes_Privacy and Parity Considerations webinar slides; Legal Action Center and Opioid Response Network – May 19.
Medicaid Fraud, Funding, and Federal Power – Squeezing State Medicaid Programs
Fraud, Funding and Federal Power: How Washington is Squeezing State Medicaid Programs summary; 80 Million, a Medicaid newsletter by Manatt Health – May 21.
ACA Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters – Final CMS Rule
HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027 Final Rule | CMS – CMS final NBPP rule, CMS fact sheet – May 15.
ACA Enrollment Declines: Implications and Options for State and Federal Policymakers; Includes ACA Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final CMS Rule
Proposed ACA 2027 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: Implications for Issuers and State Webinar Replay; Health Management Associates – May 20.
ACA Higher Marketplace Premiums Take Toll on Enrollment and Enrollees
Higher Marketplace Premiums Take a Toll on Enrollment and on Marketplace Enrollees blog; Center on Budget and Policy – May 18.
Behavioral Health Integration Collaborative Care Model – State Medicaid Payment
State Medicaid Coverage for Collaborative Care Management Codes summary; Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute shared with NCMW CoE HIS webinar – May 20. National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW) – Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions (CoE-HIS) – May 20.
Behavioral Health Amongst Individuals with Disabilities – Substance Use Treatment (part 2)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded National Center for Health in Public Housing on Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and public housing collaborations webinar slides; second of four webinar trainings – May 13. (Part one included in last week’s AAHD news.)
Social Security Continuing Disability Reviews (CDR): SSA Changes
NADE’s Response to CDR Changes (pages 4-5); National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE) – Spring Advocate newsletter – 2026.
Why the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Asset Limit Must Go
Why the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Asset Limit Must Go blog; Justice in Aging – May 13.