Tag: public input
A Call for Public Comment: What are your Thoughts on a Single Application for Health Insurance?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) wants your input! CMS is currently accepting public comments on a new single health insurance application. These new rules were designed in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and are designed to streamline the overall health insurance application process. This has the potential to help many individuals, [...]
What benefits should Medicaid offer newly-enrolled people with HIV?
AIDS advocates recently submitted comments to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) about which benefits should be provided to people who are newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The state can provide newly eligible individuals the same benefits as the regular Medicaid population, or can customize the benefits within [...]
Pledge to be a part of HIV Legislative Week!
Coming to Washington, D.C. for the International AIDS Conference? Be sure to visit your members of Congress and tell them why and how they must help us reach an AIDS-free generation! Pledge to be a part of HIV Legislative Week July 23-27. With tens of thousands of people in the nation’s capitol for the International [...]
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. [...]
Essential Health What?! Weigh in!
When your employer offers you health insurance, what’s the second question that comes to mind? If you’re like us, it’s probably, “What’s covered?” (The first question, of course, is “How much will it cost?”) Congress passed health reform, but they didn’t specify what benefits would be covered. Instead, they left it to the U.S. Department [...]
Take Action! Use these handy talking points to comment to HHS on Essential Health Benefits (Due 1/31)
(Brought to you by your friends at the HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG), who developed these handy-dandy talking points to help you submit comments on the HHS Essential Health Benefits package comments.) EHB BULLETIN: WHAT IT MEANS On December 16, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an “Essential Health [...]
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