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Please see this message below from our housing unit colleagues, and consider signing onto this letter by 12pm Monday (Oct 30):   On October 16 Governor Healey announced that the state will no longer guarantee access to Emergency Assistance (EA) shelter…

We look forward to seeing you at the Thursday Oct 26 health care working group meeting at 3 pm tomorrow. This is the zoom link Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89190732365?pwd=b0FUaFNhTFAzeEJZNzlVYmhGSEJHdz09   Agenda Open Enrollment 2024 & What's New…

In August MassHealth released proposed amendments to its 1115 amendment for public comment. Today MassHealth submitted its requested amendments to CMS.   https://www.mass.gov/info-details/1115-masshealth-demonstration-waiver   All comments will be posted…

1. MassHealth Health Connector: Open Enrollment 2024 2. New Escalation Protocol for MassHealth Problem Cases 3. Reminder about MyServices.gov Massachusetts Health Connector: Open Enrollment 2024 Open Enrollment for the Health Connector is just around the…

NEXT HEALTH CARE WORKING GROUP MEETING: WEDNESDAY SEPT. 27, 2023, 3-4:30. The zoom link should be in your calendar. We’ll resend the link early next week.   Health Updates for Sept. 22, 2023 MassHealth Redeterminations CMS Letter to States on “Ex Parte” Renewals and Mitigation…

The legislative hearing on the doula bill, An Act relative to Medicaid coverage for doula services (S.782/H.1240) is happening this Wednesday, 10am-3pm, in the Gardner Auditorium. The doula bill would require MassHealth to cover doula service, and create…

Hello all, and happy new week!  I'm writing with an update on the doula bill, An Act relative to Medicaid coverage for doula services (H.1240/S.782). Click here for a fact sheet, and here for talking points. The bill would require MassHealth to cover doula…

Hello all, and happy Tuesday.  We're writing with a brief update on a few things:    Spanish Language Webinar on MassHealth Redeterminations:  The MA Health Care Training Forum is hosting a public webinar in Spanish tomorrow, August 30, about the MassHealth renewal…

Health Care Working Group @3pm today:  We look forward to seeing you at our Health Care Working Group meeting this afternoon, at 3pm. We'll be discussing MassHealth updates- including the FY24 state budget, MassHealth's 1115 amendment request, MassHealth…

We are forwarding this message from MassHealth about a data breach affecting over 130,000 people including elderly and disabled people who receive a state-funded supplement to the SSI program, premium assistance recipients, older adults receiving home care services from Elder Affairs/ASAPs as well…