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Tapping State Ingenuity to Streamline Access to Benefits

Today, families in need of child care assistance, health coverage and food assistance often have to apply to three different agencies, providing pretty much the same information and documents to each of them. All the while, different eligibility workers handle this information to determine the family’s eligibility separately for each program. Placing such redundant and…

February 25, 2011

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Tricia Brooks

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How did Children Fare in President’s Budget?

(Ed. Note: Budget season kicked off last week with the release of President Obama’s FY 2012 budget proposal. The document outlines the President’s vision for the future by setting funding priorities. Say Ahhh! asked Bruce Lesley of First Focus to share his thoughts on how children and families fared in the President’s budget.) By Bruce…

February 22, 2011

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Early Innovators Awarded HHS Health Exchange IT Grants

Drumroll, please! For us techies (or techie-wanna-bes), the waiting is over. And the envelope says…Kansas, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma*, Oregon, Wisconsin and a multi-state consortia consisting of the New England states (sans New Hampshire) are the winners. The awards ranged from a low of $6.3 million for Maryland to a high of $54.6 million for…

February 16, 2011

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Tricia Brooks

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MEDICAID MATTERS: Arizona Section 1115 Waiver Request Sets a New Low

I recently pulled out my copy of the Social Security Act to reread Section 1115 which provides the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the authority to permit waivers of certain rules of the Medicaid program. These projects were conceived of by Congressional drafters as “demonstration projects” or “experimental pilots” which “in the judgment…

February 11, 2011

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Joan Alker

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Packer SuperBlogger Invokes Lombardi to Show Wisconsin is Leading the Charge for Children’s Health

(In honor of the Super Bowl, Say Ahhh! is hosting a Super Blog-Off to determine whether the Steeler Nation or Packer Backers are doing a better job of Connecting Kids to Coverage. Please read both blogs and vote for your favorite by submitting a comment. Comments must be submitted by kick-off Sunday night. See previous blog for…

February 4, 2011

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Steeler SuperBlogger: ‘No Baby Should Leave the Hospital Without an Insurance Card or a Terrible Towel’

(In honor of the Super Bowl, Say Ahhh! is hosting a Super Blog-Off to determine whether the Steeler Nation or Packer fans are doing a better job of Connecting Kids to Coverage. Please read both blogs and vote for your favorite by submitting a comment. Comments must be submitted by kick-off Sunday night. See previous…

February 4, 2011

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CHIPRA Provides More Funds to Help States Pay for Language Services

By Mara Youdelman, National Health Law Program As immigrant communities expand across the United States, many healthcare providers and patients have encountered communication barriers making it difficult for patients to receive proper care. Yet proper communication is as important to healthcare as a stethoscope. You can’t listen to someone’s heart without a stethoscope. How can…

January 28, 2011

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HHS Announces Funding Opportunity to Help States Build Exchanges

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that states can now apply for grants to “establish” their Health Insurance Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. These grants follow the Exchange “planning” grants awarded last September to 49 states, including DC, and will provide states with ongoing resources to move beyond planning and begin…

January 21, 2011

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Tricia Brooks

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Florida’s Proposed Medicaid Long-Term Care Changes Raise Host of Questions About Impact

Florida’s 2011 Managed Care Legislation, HB 7107, established “Medicaid Managed Care,” a new statewide managed care program for all covered services. Two separate components are anticipated for the new program: the Florida Long-Term Care Managed Care program, slated for implementation first, and the Florida Managed Medical Assistance program, an expansion of the Medicaid pilot program…

January 18, 2011

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Joan Alker

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States Should Seek a Balanced Approach to Maintaining Medicaid

By Jocelyn Guyer The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the nation’s incoming Republican governors (and four of those who are on their way out) are releasing a letter today asking Congress to dismantle the protections in the Affordable Care Act for low-income Americans aimed at holding Medicaid and CHIP coverage steady until health reform…

January 7, 2011

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Ringing in 2011 by Celebrating Progress in Children’s Coverage

By Vikki Wachino, Director of Family and Children’s Health Programs Group, CMS The New Year began just a few days ago, and many of us are just winding down from the festivities. But, if you’re still hearing the sounds of revelry, it may be the states that are continuing to celebrate the CHIPRA performance bonuses…

January 4, 2011

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Medicaid for Minnesotans Means a Happy New Year

Christina Wessel, Minnesota Budget ProjectDeputy Director Minnesotans have great cause for celebrating in the New Year. This Wednesday, Minnesota’s new governor, Mark Dayton, will take immediate action to help some of the state’s most vulnerable residents access health care. The move will take advantage of a provision in the Affordable Care Act which allows Minnesota…

January 3, 2011

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Medicaid Performance Bonuses Awarded

(Editor’s Note: This blog was originally posted on Huffington Post and Mom’s Rising.) By Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services For Amanda from Tigard, Oregon, one of the worst things about going without health insurance was worrying that something might happen to her son Jacob when she couldn’t afford a doctor. Jacob,…

December 31, 2010

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Let’s Have an “Adult Conversation” about Opting Out of Medicaid

By Anne Dunkelberg, Center for Public Policy Priorities, Texas Just last August, Texas advocates chuckled and sighed along with our Arizona colleagues when the Onion ran the headline, “Texas Vows to Reclaim Title of Most Regressive State from Arizona.” That satire piece included references to our Governor Rick Perry’s very real 2009 statements about the…

December 21, 2010

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Unprecedented Results for Kids Coverage in Massachusetts: Lessons for the Nation

By Brian Rosman, Health Care for All Massachusetts This week Massachusetts officials released the latest data from their 2010 state insurance survey. The survey provided continued good news: overall, 98.1 percent of all Massachusetts residents have health coverage. This compares to a national insurance rate of around 83 percent. Remarkably, insurance coverage increased from 2009, despite…

December 17, 2010

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2010 Finish Line Flash Editions

Since Finish Line was launched in 2007, 1.3 million more children have secured health care coverage bringing the uninsured rate for children to historic lows.

December 16, 2010

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Congress Acts to Change ACA Subsidy Structure

By Joe Touschner We’re less than a year beyond the passage of the Affordable Care Act and still three full years from the implementation of state exchanges and their federal premium subsidies. But already Congress has decided to make some significant changes to how the premium tax credits would work and, in the process, could…

December 13, 2010

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GAO Finds Medicaid & CHIP Dental Care Slowly Improving

By Meg Booth and Colin Reusch, Children’s Dental Health Project It’s been almost four years since the tragedy of Deamonte Driver, a twelve-year-old Maryland boy who died due to complications of an untreated abscessed tooth. His death highlighted the worst case scenario for families struggling to find dental care. Those of you who know Children’s…

December 3, 2010

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Keeping Up with Affordable Care Act Implementation: Health Reform GPS and NASHP’s State Reforum

By Joe Touschner The pace of activity from federal agencies since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in March has been remarkable — it seems like there is a new grant announcement, request for comment, or regulation every week. And states are just getting started — soon we’ll see exchange planning and launch, consumer…

November 29, 2010

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CMS Proposes A Medicaid Rule You (and States) Might Like

I’m not big on rules. When I ran New Hampshire’s Children’s Health Insurance Program and had to talk with a family who was unhappy about some bureaucratic rule, I often diffused the conversation by saying “I don’t make the rules, if I did there wouldn’t be any.” I know, that was a cop-out but it…

November 4, 2010

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Tricia Brooks

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