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Webinar Recording: What is the Medicaid/CHIP Tutorial and What’s In It for Me?
The Catalyst Center hosted a 5-part webinar series to provide an overview of our newly released Medicaid/CHIP Tutorial, 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). This first webinar explains how and why the…
The Affordable Care Act: A Working Guide for MCH Professionals
This guide, developed by the Access to Care Core (Catalyst Center, AMCHP and NASHP) of the National MCH Workforce Development Center, provides the building blocks for current and future Maternal and Child Health professionals to learn the basics of the Affordable Care Act and its implications for Title V programs.
NCHAM Brief: Health Care Reform: What’s in it for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing?
This fact sheet provides an overview of some of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that help improve access to coverage and care for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Financing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care: A Primer
This primer focuses on an often overlooked population of children and youth with special health care needs: children and youth in foster care.
Risk Adjustment and Other Financial Protections for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Our Evolving Health Care System
This paper reviews issues to consider with regard to risk-adjustment strategies that address the needs of CYSHCN.
Financing Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care Programs
Originally published in the April 2011 issue of the Catalyst Center Coverage e-newsletter, this article focuses on financing mechanisms for pediatric palliative and hospice care programs and provides some state-specific examples of noteworthy strategies for financing pediatric palliative care programs that can be replicated.
The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project: Combining Innovation and Collaboration to Enhance Children’s Mental Health Services in the Primary Care Setting
In this February issue of the Catalyst Center e-newsletter, we highlighted the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project, or MCPAP, as a best practice in increasing access to mental health services for the children who need them. Initiated in Massachusetts in 2004, the MCPAP model has since been implemented in nine…
The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs: An Analysis and Steps for State Policymakers
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides states with important tools to help children and youth with special health care needs (CSHCN) and their families access coverage that is universal and continuous, adequate and affordable. This paper developed by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) for the Catalyst Center…