What's new at MLS

Thanks to those of you who participated in Wednesday's Health Care Working Group meeting.  We're passing on info related to several of the agenda items at that meeting: 1. Extension of reply deadline on EOHHS Equity RFI to Jan 15, 2022 2. Copy of Kara's slide deck on…

Hello all,    Our last Health Care Working Group meeting of the year is next Wednesday, December 8 from 3-4:30pm.    Meeting agenda:  1. MassHealth health equity Requests for Information (see email below) 2. MassHealth changes to gender-affirming coverage…

Please let your One Care patients & clients know about this forum hosted by the One Care Implementation…

  We are passing along this information from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights regarding new funding for discounted broadband service for low income people next year and the advantages of signing up for the current Emergency BroadBand (EBB) benefit before the end of this…

We'll be combining our November and December Health Care Working Group meetings, so that our next and last HCWG meeting of the year will be Wednesday, December 8 from 3-4:30pm. Please save the date.    Also, some health updates: 1. Open Enrollment 2022 2. Personnel…

More about LTSS expansion for immigrants in Family Assistance   We are still waiting for release of the Eligibility Operations Memos that should provide more information about how this will actually work--but forwarded here is the first written communication from MassHealth about the Nov…

Hello all, and happy Monday! A real quick action alert on the Cover All Kids legislation:   Please contact your legislators TODAY and ask them to co-sponsor Cover All Kids.   In July, the Cover All Kids bills had a hearing before the Joint Committee on…

  Health Updates Oct 15, 2021   Immigrant Health MassHealth Policies during COVID Health Connector Open Enrollment for 2022 Basic Benefit Training for Oct & Nov    Immigrant Health Coming Nov 1, 2021 –Expanded scope of long term care…

Our next Health Care Working Group meeting is Wednesday (Oct 13) from 3-4:30pm. I will separately send a calendar invite with zoom information today.    This meeting will be an open forum on your problematic health access cases, and issues you're encountering. We hope…

Sept 28, 2021 11-3 pm Joint Health Care Finance Committee Hearing Please consider submitting written testimony or testifying in support of these bills. See the attached fact sheets & links for more information. https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/3962   WRITTEN…