Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Health and Welfare in Self-Directed HCBS Health and Welfare in Self-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS): Environmental Scan slides; Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) April 9 meeting. Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Acute Services Use Jama Health Forum Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Initiation and Acute Services Use Health […]
Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Publicly Available Data Bases and Tools Dually Enrolled Medicaid and Medicare Beneficiaries: Publicly Available Databases and Tools to Improve Understanding and Provide Relevant Services webinar and report; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center on Financing Reform and Innovation – March 25. Persons Dually Eligible for […]
Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS): The Perfect Storm Is Here for Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS): HCBS At Immediate Risk The Perfect Storm Is Here for Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports essay: Part 1; Manatt 80 Million Project on Substack – March 19. Federal Cuts, State Choices, and the Future of Aging […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 40 organizations of the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) supporting proposed legislation (HR 7875) that would establish a new SAMHSA grant program responding to gambling addiction. AAHD is a MHLG member; both Lakeshore and AAHD have joined lead sponsor Rep Houchin (IN) press release, listing supporters including other […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 23 mental health and SUD organizations of the Coalition for Whole Health, led by the Legal Action Center, submitting a statement to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Health Subcommittee, hearing with a focus on the Medicaid Provider Landscape. CWH focused on access and treatment coverage and, in […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined mental health and SUD organizations, led by NAMI and the Legal Action Center, submitting a statement to the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. The March 17 statement is here: PDF. […]
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): What’s At Stake If Cut New Issue Brief Documents What’s at Stake if Medicaid HCBS Are Cut article; February 16 Association of Health Care Journalists article shared Feb 27 by Self-Direction News. Summarizes a Kaiser Family Foundation report (previously included in AAHD news). Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) – Federal Cuts, State […]
Potential Medicaid Disability Service Reductions: State Perspectives Survey Results: State Perspectives on Potential Medicaid Disability Service Reductions – CHCS Blog; Center for Health Care Strategies – February 24. Medicaid Fraud – CMS Announces RFI on its CRUSH Initiative The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Request for Information (RFI) Related to its Comprehensive Regulations […]
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) – “We Can Not Fix What We Refuse To Define” A Message from Theo Braddy: We Cannot Fix What We Refuse to Define blog; National Council on Independent Living (executive director blog) – February 17. Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Person-Centered Service Planning Process: Ensuring Rights, Choice, and Control Home & Community […]
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) – Reconciliation (HR 1) Waiver Expansion Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) – Reconciliation (HR 1) Waiver Expansion letter; AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Task Force on LTSS writing CMS for clarification and guidance on the Reconciliation Act (HR 1) Medicaid HCBS expanded waiver […]