MEDICAID and RIte CARE
MEDICAID GLOBAL WAIVER
The Global Capped waiver proposal submitted by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (OHHS) and the Department of Human Services to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare on August 8 has attracted national attention.
Click to read the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report, RIs Medicaid Proposal Would Put Beneficiaries at Risk and Undermine the Federal-State Partnership.
Read coverage in the Washington Post.
Read the Editorial in The New York Times, "Gambling with Medicaid."
Click to see the waiver and related DHS/EOHHS documents.
Joan Alker, Deputy Director of the Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, presented testimony at the joint House and Senate finance committee hearing on the waiver held on August 5.
The Poverty Institute provides an analysis of the waiver submission including a chart documenting that much of the $67 million proposed to be saved by the waiver can be achieved without the Global Capped waiver proposal.
REPORTS
Key Provisions of the "RI Consumer Choice Compact Waiver" (8.08)
Key Provisions of Article 17 (5.08)
Red Flags for RIte Care (11.07)
Congress Must Act Now to Avert the SCHIP Funding Shortfall (9.06)
Why Medicaid Matters to Rhode Island
Annual Report of the RI department of Human Services' Implementation of Programs to Address Uninsurance Among Rhode Islanders
FACT SHEETS
Keeping Track of RIte Care Changes (8.06)
Facts about how Medicaid Matters to Rhode Island (1.06)
FAMILY RESOURCE COUNSELORS
Family Resource Counselors available in your community
TESTIMONY
Comments on Rules related to Co-pays for Prescriptions for Poor Seniors and People with Disabilities
Comments on regulations that will change eligibility for Medical assistance for many non-citizen children and adults
Poverty Institute's comments on DRA Citizenship and Identification Verification Requirements
Comments on regulatory changes to Medicaid, Child Care, and RIte Care
Medicaid Testimony
Enrolling children in RIte Share through non-custodial parents health coverage
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