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The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides states with some important tools that can be utilized to provide more continuous, adequate and affordable coverage for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). How the law is interpreted and whether implementation challenges are addressed with the unique needs of CSHCN in mind will shape how well the ACA fulfills its promise to this vulnerable population. This paper developed by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) for the Catalyst Center at Boston University reviews and analyzes key provisions of the ACA relevant for CSHCN and provides suggestions for state policymakers.
Download here: The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs
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Improving the Lives of Young Children: Opportunities for Care Coordination and Case Management for Children Receiving Services for Developmental Delay
This brief, written by NASHP policy specialist Carrie Hanlon and produced by the Urban Institute ,examines states' Medicaid and CHIP policy choices and new opportunities under health reform and other federal legislation to develop a well-coordinated system of care for children receiving Early Intervention (EI) and other ongoing services. State examples in the paper draw significantly from NASHP's Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III Program designed to assist states in improving care coordination, case management, and linkages that support healthy child development.
December 2010» - Submitted by Admin on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 18:24
American Academy of Pediatrics - National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children With Special Needs
This toolbox promotes the medical home model for integrating developmental surveillance and screening within quality primary care, including developmental, newborn metabolic and genetic, hearing and vision screening. It includes resources developed by pediatric practices that are participating in the Developmental Surveillance and Screening Policy Implementation Project (D-PIP) project evaluating implementation of the AAP algorithm for developmental surveillance and screening and provides links to articles and information on implementing screening and communicating with families cross-culturally. This toolbox provides information on resources by state as well as information for parents and links to numerous other initiatives, recent research, literature, and websites. -
Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Accessing Early Intervention Services
Friday, May 4, 20122:00 pm - 3:00 pmEDTEarly Intervention services can play a valuable role in promoting the healthy development of at-risk infants and young children. All too often, however, families and children who would benefit from Early Intervention services face barriers to accessing them. This Alumni webinar, sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, focused on a new study that identifies potential barriers to Early Intervention services. Additional speakers discussed strategies to overcome these barriers from both the state Early Intervention perspective and from the state Medicaid and CHIP perspective.
Speakers:
- Manual Jimenez, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
- Marsha Gerdes, PhD, Senior Psychologist, PolicyLab, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CHIPRA co-site Director
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The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs: An Analysis and Steps for State Policymakers
Presented by the National Academy for State Health Policy with the support of the Catalyst Center at Boston University
Thursday, January 27, 20111:30 pm - 3:00 pmESTApproximately one in every seven children under 18 years of age, or 14 percent of children in the United States, has a special health care need. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and also require health and related services of a type or amount greater than that required by children generally. The report, The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs: An Analysis and Steps for State Policymakers, developed by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) for the Catalyst Center at Boston University reviews and analyzes key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) relevant for CSHCN to help inform state policymakers' decisions. This webinar presented highlights from the analysis, including steps that state policymakers can take to address the needs of CSHCN as states work on health care reform.
