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MassHealth’s Proposal for an “Independent Assessment Entity” to Centralize Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) On Feb 16, 2024 MassHealth opened up the bidding process for a single entity to centralize assessment and eligibility determinations for the following five long term services and…

MassHealth updates its income upper limits for 2024 on March 1. The federal government publishes the updated poverty level amounts in late January every year and MassHealth applies them on March 1.    The Health Connector updates its upper income limits based on the poverty…

A reminder that we will be having our regular 4th Wed of the month Health Care Working Group meeting on Wed Feb 28 at 3-4:30. The zoom link should be in your calendar already. The agenda will include hearing from those in attendance on top of mind issues  as well as:  a summary of…

MassHealth Estate Recovery: Today the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation released an issue brief on MassHealth Estate Recovery with recommendations for reform. MLRI wrote an accompanying report profiling 4 people who faced estate recovery claims after the death of a spouse or parent who had…

We ended last week's HCWG meeting early in order to attend the EOHHS budget briefing but didn't intend to end it so abruptly. Sorry about that!  This is a link to MLRI's preliminary analysis of the Governor's proposed budget for FY 2025 which was filed last Wednesday. MLRI…

Reminder: Health Care Working Group meeting this Wednesday January 24, 3-4:30 pm. It should already be in your calendar (4th Wed of the month) Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89190732365?pwd=b0FUaFNhTFAzeEJZNzlVYmhGSEJHdz09 Agenda ·Redetermination update ·New…

Happy New Year everyone, we're working on a summary of end of year/new year developments, meanwhile.... Here are several upcoming events  that you may want to attend: Jan 11 at 11 am Lift our Kids rally on the State House Steps to protest cash assistance cuts  The Lift Our…

Our last Health Care Working Group meeting of 2023 will be next Wednesday, December 6 at 3pm. There are many MassHealth updates to discuss, but please also let us know if there's anything in particular that you'd like to discuss.    Zoom information for HCWG…

Hello all,    We hope you had a nice break.    We're writing to remind you that the deadline to sign onto the two letters below is by the end of the day TODAY.    Health Care For All Sign-on Letter regarding all 8 amendment requests: With…

  We are forwarding the notice from CMS of a comment period on the 1115 amendment requests that MassHealth submitted on Oct 16, 2023. Comments to CMS are due Nov 29, 2023.  In September, MassHealth accepted comments on its proposed requests for 1115 amendments and its October request…