Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Administrative Requirements March 7 MACPAC (Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission) meeting presentation. Learn more here. Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Workforce Interviews Findings March 7 MACPAC (Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission) meeting presentation. Learn more here. Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Opportunities To Address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) […]
Category: Health & Disability Newsletter
AAHD publishes an informative, timely and interesting electronic quarterly newsletter, Health & Disability, for AAHD members and others interested in the field of disability and health. All of the articles featured in the newsletter and more are made available here. Health & Disability took the year off in 2012, but will resume in 2013. To subscribe or to submit ideas for newsletter topics, please e-mail contact@dev-aahd.pantheonsite.io.
Week of February 27, 2024
No Wrong Door: Improving Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) System Metrics February 14 ACL and AARP webinar slides. Learn more here. Money Follows the Person Program: CMS HCBS Quality Measures February 16 ADvancing States shared CMS All-States call recording HCBS quality measures for the 41 MFP states. Learn more here. Counting Disability – Need To […]
Week of January 30, 2024
Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Annual MedPAC-MACPAC Data Book January 22 MACPAC announced and shared report. Learn more here. Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Integrated Care Programs – Resources Collection January 18, then Jan 25, Playbook Better Care for People with Complex Needs shared resources collection. Learn more here. Community Care […]
Week of January 16, 2024
Access to Medical Diagnostic Equipment for People with Disabilities – ADA Proposed Rule January 9 Department of Justice announced ADA Title II proposed rules. Learn more here. Strengthening Digital Accessibility Throughout the National Government January 9 ACL shared December 21 White House and OMB announced memo to federal agencies strengthening Section 508 of the Rehab […]
Week of December 5, 2023
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Three-Fourths of States Have Waiting Lists; 2016-2023 Updated Waiting List Data November 29 Kaiser Family Foundation report. Learn more here. Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Workforce Highlights November 3 MACPAC committee presentation was shared in Nov 21 (#38) AAHD news. Available here is page 4, HCBS workforce highlights. Learn more here. Medicaid […]
Week of June 6, 2023
Delivering Adult Respite Care Strategies in Medicaid HCBS (Home-and-Community-Based Services) – 7 States May 26 National Academy for State Health Policy report Learn more here. What Do NCI-IDD Data Tell Us About Paying Family Caregivers May 25 HSRI-NASDDDS shared NCI-IDD data brief Learn more here. Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid – Disparities in […]
Disability Research and Dissemination Center: New Projects for 2014
Each January, the Disability Research and Dissemination Center (DRDC) issues a request for applications (RFAs) for new research opportunities. The DRDC conducts research in support of the priorities of the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). DRDC awards research grants to university and other academic and professional partners that employ medical, […]
National Disability Navigator Resource Collaborative Helps People with Disabilities Find Health Insurance
Navigators and other enrollment specialists can now access better information to help people with disabilities find health care coverage in the federal and state exchanges. The tools are cross-disability programs developed by the National Disability Navigator Resource Collaborative (NDNRC). The 12-month collaborative was made possible by a one-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. […]
Health Care Expenditures Among Working-Age Adults With Physical Disabilities: Variations by Disability Spans
Health spending is more than twice as much for people with persistent disabilities than for those whose disabilities are temporary, according to a recent study in Disability and Health Journal. [1] For the persistent disability group, median health spending was $4,234, and out-of-pocket (OOP) spending was $591. For those whose disability was temporary, those amounts […]
AAHD Launches 2014 Membership Campaign
AAHD is excited to be launching its 2014 Annual Membership Campaign this month. Your support is crucial to AAHD’s ability to continue its important work in the coming year. Our mission is to promote the health of children and adults with disabilities, reduce health disparities and advocate for community inclusion and full accessibility at the […]