Family Voices News
Senate Report and Hearing on Care of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
On August 15, Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tom Carper (D-DE), Chair and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, issued a staff report, Oversight of the Care of...
In Congress: Budget and Appropriations (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
The Senate will begin debate this week on a bill combining two FY 2019 appropriations bills -- one for the Department of Defense and one for the Departments of Labor, Health, and Human Services (HHS), and Education, known as the “Labor-HHS” bill. Together these bills...
Bill on Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care under Medicaid (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
On July 26, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and others introduced a bipartisan bill -- The Children's Program of All-Inclusive Coordinated Care (ChiPACC) Act (H.R. 6560) – which would fill gaps in hospice and palliative services that children now receive under Medicaid. The...
News from Medicaid (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
From the CMS Newsroom: Aug. 16 -- CMS Streamlines Medicaid Review Process, Achieves Significant Reduction in Approval Times. “…Today, CMS issued a second Informational Bulletin related to [state plan amendment (SPA)] and 1915 waiver process improvements. This Bulletin...
Medicaid Waiver News (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
Kentucky Waiver As reported in the July 3 Washington Update (under “Courts”), a federal court vacated the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approval of a Kentucky Medicaid waiver proposal to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. The court’s...
Affordable Care Act News (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
Clarification of “Exceptional Circumstances” SEP for Consumers Impacted by Disasters An August 20 email from the Health Insurance Marketplace announced: “CMS has released guidance clarifying Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM) Special Enrollment Period (SEP)...
TRICARE News (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
August 23 Webinar: Bring Your TRICARE Benefit Questions to August 23 Webinar (article) Webinar: Ask TRICARE -- Thursday, August 23, 1:00-2:00 pm ET. Register. Benefit Updates: Using Your TRICARE Benefit with Other Health Insurance (TRICARE Benefit Update, 8/7/18) How...
From the Food & Drug Administration Newsroom: Generic Epigen (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
Aug. 16 -- FDA Approves First Generic Version of Epipen The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first generic version of EpiPen and EpiPen Jr (epinephrine) auto-injector for the emergency treatment of allergic reactions, including those that are...
Q&A from a Conversation on Models of Care Delivery (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
Read the responses to questions that were submitted during the June 28 "Conversation on Models of Care Delivery for Children with Medical Complexity," a webinar in the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health series, Building Systems that Work for Children with...
Materials from Webinar on Medicaid Storytelling (Washington Update, August 22, 2018)
The webinar recording and slides from last week’s webinar, “Demonstrating Medicaid’s Value through Storytelling,” are now available on the website of the Georgetown Center on Children and Families here.
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