About 500,000 children and families have had their Medicaid reinstated after some states erroneously purged them because of a systems issue, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) said Thursday.
Surveys eligibility rules, enrollment and renewal procedures, and cost-sharing practices authorized in July 2006-January 2008 in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs, as well as new hurdles to expanding coverage for low-income families.Ross, Donna Cohen...
(CNN) -- Some 500,000 children and families have had their Medicaid coverage reinstated after many states improperly terminated their enrollment because of a systems issue, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday. At issue is the states' use of existing data to automatically ...
Instead, Sapia said that text from her daughter's occupational therapist kicked off a three-week period of daily calls, often with hourslong hold times, to reach agents with the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF). When she couldn't get answers the...
Leslie is continuing to research how waivers affect families and children with autism. He is currently investigating whether waivers are effective at getting more children with autism into evidence-based care and if they reduce problematic outcomes, such as hospital admissions and emergency department vi...
he said. That’s more than twice the 12,600 hours the state sets aside each year to pay Deloitte for revisions. The extra hours would require an amended contract in which the state would have to agree to pay more. Florida’s Department of Children and Families did not respond to requests...
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (DHHS-ACF) funded RAND to match CPS data to individual-level administrative data for the Medi-Cal program. With the cooperation of the California Department of Health Services (CDHS), the U.S. Bureau of the ...
Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps low-income Americans of all ages pay for the costs associated with medical andlong-term custodial care.2Children who need low-cost care but whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid are covered through theChildren's Health Ins...
By Liane Wong, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation It should be common sense to say that policies and programs which improve the health and well-being of parents will also help their children, right?...Center For Children and Families...
Our Families and Children Medical Assistance (Medicaid) plan - also known as the Prepaid Medicaid Assistance Program (PMAP) - is for children, pregnant women, families and adults without children. You can choose your own doctor. And you get many extras that other plans don’t offer. View ...