- May 18, 2020
Medicaid is the Hero in The HEROES Act
Despite weeks of sheltering in place, coronavirus continues to ravage the country. Deaths continue to rise, testing is still…
- May 15, 2020
California v. Texas: The ACA Litigation Saga Continues
On May 13, 2020, 39 amici curiae (friends of the court) briefs were filed in California v. Texas, the…
- May 12, 2020
COVID-19 Crisis: Unspoken Impacts on Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities
COVID-19 has triggered a national and public health emergency (PHE). To date, nearly one million people have been diagnosed…
- May 12, 2020
Home-Based Care under COVID-19: A Do No Harm Approach to Assessing Needs
Medicaid commonly uses functional assessments to determine eligibility for services as well as the type and amount of services…
- May 6, 2020
Telehealth and Disability: Challenges and Opportunities for Care
In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published guidance…
- May 1, 2020
Streamlining Medicaid Enrollment During COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health coverage is more important than ever. States are seeing a surge in Medicaid applications,…
- April 30, 2020
Can Coronavirus (COVID-19) be the Tipping Point for Health Equity?
If the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taught us one thing already, it is that we are not all the…
- April 30, 2020
Leave No Californian Behind: California’s Efforts to Ease Access to Medi-Cal During the Pandemic
As the number of COVID-19 cases across the country continue to steadily rise, many of us here in California…
- April 29, 2020
Disability, Race, and Structural Inequity: COVID-19 and the Long-Term Care Workforce
A recent NPR investigation into nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks revealed one factor strongly correlated with the most affected facilities.…
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