This presentation outlines the basics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of coverage and benefits for children with special health care needs (CSHCN), touching on health care delivery and payment reform. This was the closing plenary presentation of the 13th Annual Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Meeting, held on April 15, 2014.
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The Affordable Care Act: a Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Provisions and the Implications for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
This brief offers a concise description of select provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a side-by-side analysis of what they may mean for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families.
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 reviews and analyzes key provisions of the ACA relevant for CYSHCN to help inform state policymakers’ decisions in implementing health care reform.
As a companion activity to the release of this publication, NASHP and the Catalyst Center hosted a joint webcast in January 2011. Policy experts from the NASHP and Catalyst Center teams presented highlights from their analysis. A panel of state and federal officials shared their perspectives on the report.
The Essential Components of Health Care Reform for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
As the possibility of national health care reform became a reality, the Catalyst Center identified three things children with special health care needs would need: Coverage that is universal and continuous, adequate, and affordable.
Children with Special Health Care Needs Enrolled in Medi-Cal and the California Health Benefits Exchange
Legislative Policy Briefing
The Affordable Care Act and Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: Opportunities and Challenges
Maternal and Child Health Town Hall meeting, American Public Health Association annual meeting, Boston, MA.
Medicaid Managed Care: The Importance of Risk Adjustment
This report has its origins in a one-day meeting held with an expert panel in September 2011 on risk adjustment for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). This meeting was sponsored by the Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and facilitated by the Catalyst Center at the Boston University School of Public Health, with logistical support provided by John Snow, Incorporated.
Fact sheet: Section 2703, The Medicaid Health Home Provision of the Affordable Care Act: An Overview
This fact sheet provides an overview of Section 2703, the Medicaid Health Home Provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Fact sheet: Low-Income Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Affordable Care Act
Uninsured low-income CSHCN are less likely to have a usual source of care and are more likely to have unmet needs for routine medical and dental care than their insured counterparts. Unmet health care needs can be detrimental to any child; however, for CSHCN, who require more health-care services than their typically developing peers, barriers to needed health services – such as a lack of health insurance – can have long-term health consequences.
Fact sheet: Immigrant Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Affordable Care Act
Almost 25% of all children in the U.S. are immigrants. Immigrant children and citizen children in mixed-status families are more likely than non-immigrant children and children in families where all members are citizens to lack health insurance.