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Authors Wilson, K.
Date 2015
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords CYSHCN, Financing, Health Equity, Health Reform
This fact sheet from the Catalyst Center explores strategies states can use to close the health care coverage and financing gaps experienced by Latino families raising children with special health care needs.
The Catalyst Center interviewed staff from family leadership organizations in five states to learn about the barriers underserved families face and the strategies these organizations use to address health insurance inequities among CSHCN in their communities. This policy brief describes the strategies that help promote access to coverage and financing of care among CSHCN including racial and ethnic minority children, older children, those living in immigrant families or in families in which English is not the primary language, and those with the most significant functional limitations.
Authors Wilson, K., Dworetzky, B., Comeau, M.
Date 2016
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords CYSHCN, Health Equity
Certain vulnerable subgroups of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) face underlying structural disadvantage in terms of health care coverage. Differences exist within the population of CSHCN based on race, ethnicity, income, immigration status, language, and level of functional difficulty. This tutorial clarifies the language used to describe these differences and provides tools and examples of policies, programs, and partnerships that users can adopt in their states to improve access to coverage and financing of care for the most vulnerable children. An accompanying interactive worksheet helps users distill the information presented to identify health care coverage and financing inequities that may exist for CSHCN in their state or organization. The completed worksheet provides information that may serve as a starting point for discussions in how to address inequities for CSHCN.
View description of webinar introducing this tutorial.
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Making It Possible to Care for Children with Significant Disabilities at Home
The Catalyst Center’s State Data Chartbook offers a comprehensive array of data from a variety of different sources on the coverage and financing of care for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). One of the data indicators found in the Chartbook under the topic area “Factors Influencing Health Insurance Coverage” tells users whether or not a specific state offers Medicaid eligibility to children either under the TEFRA state plan option or under a Katie Beckett home and community-based services waiver. This article provides an introduction to the two options and how they came into existence.
Authors Wilson, K. , Dworetzky, B. , Comeau, M.
Date 2015
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords Medicaid/CHIP
This policy brief explains what the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) means in terms of creating additional pathways to Medicaid for children, a comparison of TEFRA and HCBS waivers, how TEFRA affects children with special health care needs, and suggested improvements that could provide further support to families.
This presentation explains Health Insurance Options for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Authors Comeau, M. , Tobias, C., Dworetzky, B.A., Hess, C.
Date 2012
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords Medicaid/CHIP
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 tutorial was developed, gives examples of Title V and Medicaid/CHIP Partnerships, and what’s covered in the tutorial.
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Authors Dworetzky, B.A., Honberg, L., Davis, M.
Date 2012
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords Medicaid/CHIP
Learn how different systems define children with special health care needs, the basics of Medicaid and CHIP, and different kinds of partnerships between Title V and Medicaid/CHIP.
Authors Comeau, M. , Antonelli, A.
Date 2012
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords CYSHCN, Financing, Health Reform
Catalyst Center presentation from a July 12, 2012 Webinar conducted by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. The webinar covered innovative strategies to improve the delivery and payment of health care services to children with special health needs.
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Authors Bachman, S.S. , Comeau, M. , Rogers, G., Dworetzky, B.A.
Date 2012
Project Catalyst Center
Keywords CYSHCN, Financing, Medicaid/CHIP, Supportive Services
This is the fourth webinar in a five-webinar series about the Catalyst Center’s latest 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).
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