AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined No Health without Mental Health (NHMH) and CSWA-ISPMHN-PCMMH submitting comments to the House GOP Doctor’s Caucus RFI on the MIPS (Medicare provider improvement of quality of patient care and outcomes) program with an emphasis on primary care and bidirectional health integration. Available here is the NHMH submission, as […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined a NHMH – No Health without Mental Health – led submission collaboration with Clinical Social Work Association and Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health to Battelle’s Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) request for comments on Digital Quality Measures (dQMs). Battelle serves as the HHS and CMS external quality […]
Health equity becomes more possible when every person with a disability can access the supports and services they need to live a full life. Through legal and policy approaches, US public health institutions are helping to improve the systems and environments that affect health day to day for people across the disability community. Since the […]
Even with the most expensive health care system in the world, health outcomes in the United States are low across many measures. What kind of changes need to happen in our care delivery system to shift these trends? In this next installment in our policy priorities blog series, we’re looking at emerging care approaches that […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 24 organizations of the Coalition for Whole Health, led by the Legal Action Center, comments to HHS on state flexibility in implementing the Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work and Community Engagement requirements. See October 14 AAHD public policy updates posting of disability and aging community ideas: Reconciliation Law (HR […]
As a member, AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) thanking Congress for reauthorizing the SUPPORT Act, community-based programs focused on opioids and SUD and including persons with co-occurring mental illness. The October 16 MHLG letter is here: PDF. […]
We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability. Every year this award recognizes students with disabilities who are working to advance the broad field of disability and health. Meet our 2025 Scholars Dishita Agarwal (she/her) is a sophomore at Duke University studying Neuroscience, Public Policy, […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 355 organizations, led by the Disability and Aging Collaborative (DAC) and Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD), asking Congress to legislatively extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and repeal the Reconciliation Act (HR 1) health care provisions. Also see our web public policy updates: September 25 […]
AAHD, as a Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) member, has joined MHLG members writing Congress requesting a two year legislative extension of Medicare telehealth services. Also see August 12 public policy web posting where AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation joined 350 organizations led by the Alliance for Connected Care asking for legislative extension of Medicare […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 110 organizations led by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) supporting proposed legislation to create a new federal grant program to address mental wellness and toxic stress, emergencies, and disasters. Our colleague organization Mental Health America is one of the 110 supporters. Available here are: statement of need […]