HHS APPROVES NEW SERVICES FOR INDIANA MEDICAID ENROLLEES WITH CHRONIC DISEASESEBSCO_bspFdch Regulatory Intelligence Database
Medicaid Waivers, which are offered as an alternative to nursing homes, pay for home care. They also often pay for other related in-home support services to help the elderly remain living at home. The important points for the reader to understand are: 1. Medicaid’s home care services are...
While Planned Parenthood officials had feared they might have to close some of the organization's 28 clinics in Indiana or suspend some services because of a loss of Medicaid funds, that has not happened so far. Cockrum has said about 9,300 women rely on Planned Parenthood for their health ...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether type and volume of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver program are associated with risk of hospitalization and whether this association changes over time.DESIGN: Prospective.SETTING: Indiana Medicaid claims data from June 2001 to December 2004.PARTI...
Pence said the state's Family and Social Services Administration would immediately begin taking applications Tuesday for coverage starting Feb. 1. Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane hailed the expansion, saying it would drive down health insurance premiums for insured Indiana residents and eliminate use...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Parents of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court over changes to attendant care services they say violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal Medicaid laws.
…Gail Wilensky, who was head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…argued that…If federal money for the program were fixed, “states would have much greater incentives to use it as efficiently as possible,” she said. The policy argument for Medicaid reform is very strong. The...
“Indiana’s vision and ours goes beyond the provision of quality health care,” Azar said. “Work is a key component of well-being.” An approval letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says the waiver is designed, in part, to test whether work requirements “wil...
Court Cannot Extend Time to File Record in Medicaid Appeal.The article reports on the court case Indiana Family and Social Services Administration v. Meyer, wherein the Supreme Court of Indiana in a review of a Medicaid appeal finds that the trial court is unauthorized to extend the time to ...
Therefore, getting Medicaid in and of itself does not really give you access. It might actually decrease your access because there are networks of charities, private foundations, and religious institutions that provide some basic medical services to people who don't have money. If you have ...