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Fact Sheet: Medicaid and Children with Special Health Care Needs/Disabilities: An Overview.
This fact sheet provides an overview of Medicaid eligibility and benefits for children with special health care needs and disabilities.
Fact Sheet: The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Children with Special Health Care Needs—An Overview.
This fact sheet provides information about the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility and benefits for CSHCN.
Your Questions on the Essential Health Benefits Bulletin Answered
In every issue of Catalyst Center Quarterly, we tackle a current topic related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Below is a compilation of several questions that we’ve been asked by stakeholders regarding the Essential Health Benefits Bulletin issued by…
A Call to Action for Social Work: Minimizing Financial Hardship for Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Families face significant challenges in caring for their CSHCN. For many families, one of these challenges is the economic impact of inadequate health care coverage. Families must make hard choices about how to spend limited salaries and then make substantial sacrifices in other domains to ensure adequate care for their…
Disparities in Insurance Coverage among Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Social Workers Can Promote Social and Economic Justice
In this article, we first provide information about CSHCN, insurance status, and associated disparities. We then discuss practice and policy initiatives that social workers could pursue to reduce these disparities, including initiatives prompted by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Action aimed at ensuring access…
Webinar: What are the Pathways to Coverage and What Are Covered Services for Medicaid and CHIP?
This is the third webinar in a five-webinar series about the Catalyst Center’s technical assistance tool Public Insurance Programs and Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Tutorial on the Basics of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
CISWH Awarded Grant to Improve Emergency Medical Response to Children with Complex Health Needs
Children and youth with complex health needs (CCN) are specifically and disproportionately impacted by system breakdowns during widespread emergencies. To address these issues on the state level, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded The Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (CISWH) at…
CISWH’s Meg Comeau Co-authors Research Recommendations to Improve Health Care Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs
By definition, children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) require more health care services than children typically do to ensure their optimal health, quality of life and well-being. About 20% of children in the US have special health care needs, and their care comprises about…
CISWH Senior Project Director Meg Comeau Shares Expertise on Proposed Medicaid Cuts
As the United States House and Senate prepare to debate the 2025 budget bill recently passed by House Republicans, cuts to Medicaid spending could total hundreds of billions of dollars. Medicaid, the largest health insurance program in the US, covers more than 70 million people. Meg Comeau, senior…