Category: California
Download and customize: Health Reform Q & A for Ryan White Program Clients
Don’t ya love it when someone else does all the hard work? Fill in the blanks and VAVOOM! A ready-to-use FAQ for clients. Well, look what magically appeared, thanks to the great folks in San Francisco… A customizable frequently asked questions document about the Affordable Care Act designed for Ryan White Program clients. Download this [...]
Planning for implementation – what should you think about?
More resources from California! The San Francisco HIV Health Care Reform Task Force created a five-page implementation guide for local organizations as they prepare for health care reform. Here’s the task force’s description of the document: Medical and non-medical providers of HIV services play a crucial role in supporting San Franciscans living with HIV as [...]
Health Care Reform & HIV 101 Presentation
The Dreamgirls of health care reform – Robert Greenwald, Anne Donnelly and Andrea Weddle – have done it again! No, not another hit song, but a concise and informative HIV & health care reform 101 presentation. The unstoppable team presented at the Ryan White grantees conference in Washington, DC on November 28, 2012. In addition [...]
USCA Closing Plenary: Implementing the ACA Nationally, in Your State, and Agency
HIV Health Reform’s merry band went on the road to the U.S. Conference on AIDS this week in Las Vegas, and presented at the closing plenary. Check out the slides from Amy Killelea (NASTAD), Anne Donnelly (Project Inform) and John Peller (AIDS Foundation of Chicago) are here. Big thanks to Kali Lindsey of NMAC for [...]
Watch the webinar: How will the Affordable Care Act expand access to HIV prevention and testing services?
Watch the Webinar: How will the Affordable Care Act expand access to HIV prevention and testing services? Download the slides (PDF) One of the most important aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is its focus on prevention and expanded coverage of many preventive services to keep people from becoming sick in the first place. [...]
California’ “Bridge to Reform” – Lessons Learned, Questions Raised
As we’ve mentioned previously, California has moved forward rapidly with implementing health care reform. As part of this effort, the state received approval in 2010 for its Medicaid 1115 Waiver called California’s “Bridge to Reform.” The waiver was intended to expand Medicaid-like coverage to 500,000 uninsured Californians (called the Low Income Health Program or [...]
HIV Advocates Weigh in on the Duals Proposal
As we mentioned in our last post, California is in the process of creating a demonstration project that will attempt to integrate and coordinate care for people who are eligible for Medicaid and Medicare (dual eligible). If not done well, this demonstration project has the potential to disrupt care for dual eligibles living with HIV. [...]
Medicare + Medicaid = California-Style Confusion
California is one of fifteen states that have been approved to create a demonstration project that will attempt to integrate and coordinate care for people who are eligible for Medicaid and Medicare (dual eligible). Up until now, dual eligibles have been exempt from managed care because of the complexity of their health care needs as [...]
Register for the webinar! Health Care Reform in Your State: Making it Work for People with HIV
Health care reform will revolutionize access to health care for people with HIV. But to reach its full potential, HIV advocates need a seat at a table, and nowhere is that more important than in the states. Click here to register for the webinar. States will have to make hundreds of decisions to make health [...]
California’s Low Income Health Programs and People with HIV
Low Income Health Projects, or LIHPs, are new county-based Medi-Cal expansion programs designed to extend health coverage to uninsured adults. These programs were formed as a result of California’s “Bridge to Health Care Reform” Section 1115, Medicaid Waiver that was approved in late 2010. While the concept for this waiver was a bold step toward [...]