New Report Indicates Medicaid Rules Would Hurt Special Needs Children
A new report released by First Focus indicates that the Administration’s new rules for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, if imposed, will have a disproportionate impact on children with special health care needs.
Commissioned by First Focus and authored by Sara Rosenbaum, JD, of The George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public Health and Health Services, the report has analyzed each of the regulations proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and determined that vulnerable children with special health care needs will be most severely impacted by these actions.
Click here to download the full report.
Click here to read the First Focus summary
of the report
Click here to read First Focus's Press Release
Click here to read a Press Release from the Committee on Energy and Commerce
Click here to read a summary of CMS regulatory actions impacting children with special health care needs
Recently, House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act (H.R. 5613), legislation placing one-year moratorium on these Medicaid regulations.
Click here to read the press release
Click here to read First Focus’s letter of support.
Click here to read a First Focus-backed letter of support organized by Local Education Agencies containing over 1,500 signatures from an array of state, local and national groups
Health Subcommittee approves H.R. 5613
the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congressional Research Service (CRS) confirmed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) exceeded its in issuing a proposal threatening the health coverage of thousands of low-income American kids through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
