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- June 4, 2019
Public Comments on Medicaid’s Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) Exclusion
Read moreAs part of Support for Patients and Communities Act of 2018 (Support Act), Congress requested MACPAC submit a report on IMDs, and include any recommendations for changes to the exclusion. Any proposed changes to the IMD exclusion should be made with the utmost caution, and without undermining the purpose…
- September 18, 2018
National Health Law Program: Comments on Sterilization Consent Form
Read moreEstablished in the 1970s, the Medicaid Consent for Sterilization policy was, and remains, a much-needed protection against coercive sterilization practices.The United States has an ugly history of forcibly sterilizing low-income people, and particularly targeting low-income women, women of color, immigrant women, and women with disabilities to advance eugenics principles.…
- July 18, 2018
Medi-Cal Coverage of Transportation Services
Read moreWhile Medicaid provides certain kinds of medically assisted transportation, all states have the ability to bolster transportation services and extend them to all Medicaid beneficiaries. California's Medicaid agency, Medi-Cal, provides Emergency Medical Transportation, Non-Emergency Medical Transportation, and Nonmedical Transportation (i.e., picking up drug prescriptions, visiting sick child in hospital).…
- July 17, 2018
Advocates’ Guide to Accessibility in Medicaid Managed Care Grievances and Appeal
Read morePursuant to new regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), state Medicaid agencies are now required to ensure that managed care plans in each state are complying with new procedural requirements for grievance and appeals systems. This Advocate's Guide from Disability Rights Education and Defense…
- May 24, 2018
Groups File Class Action Against Calif. Over Care of Children with Disabilities
Read moreRepresenting children with disabilities, Disability Rights California, National Health Law Program and Western Center for Law and Poverty today filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against California's Medicaid agency (Medi-Cal) for failure to provide sufficient in-home nursing services. Medi-Cal's "deficient policies, practices, and procedures related to arrangement…
