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Poor oral health as an obstacle to employment for Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities
(American Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2012)Objectives: To inform policy with better information about the oral health-care needs of aMedicaid population that engages in employment, that is, people ages 16 to 64 with Social Security-determined disabilities enrolled ... -
The Validity of Claims-Based Risk Estimation in Underinsured Populations
(Methods, 2012-12)Objectives: To demonstrate a threat to validity in using claims-based risk tools with chronically ill, underinsured populations. Study Design: We tracked disease burden of highrisk pool beneficiaries with potentially ... -
Medicaid managed care: Issues for beneficiaries with disabilities
(Elsevier, 2015)Background: States are increasingly turning to managed care arrangements to control costs in their Medicaid programs. Historically, such arrangements have excluded people with disabilities who use long-term services and ... -
Realizing Health Reform’s Potential: Why a National High-Risk Insurance Pool Is Not a Workable Alternative to the Marketplace
(The Commonwealth Fund, 2014-12)The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) was a national high-risk pool established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions who had been uninsured for at ... -
Realizing Health Reform’s Potential Early Implementation of Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans: Providing an Interim Safety Net for the Uninsurable
(The Commonwealth Fund, 2011-06)The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is a temporary program implemented under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make health insurance coverage available to uninsured individuals with preexisting ... -
Realizing Health Reform’s Potential The Affordable Care Act’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan: Enrollment, Costs, and Lessons for Reform
(The Commonwealth Fund, 2012-09)The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is the temporary, federal high-risk pool created under the Affordable Care Act to provide coverage to uninsured individuals with preexisting conditions until 2014, ... -
The Medicaid Medically Improved Group: Losing Disability Status and Growing Earnings
(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of Information Products & Data Analytics, 2014)Objectives: Under the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (PL 106-170), states may extend Medicaid Buy-In coverage to a medically improved group. Improved group coverage allows adults with disabilities ... -
Asset building: One way the ACA may improve health and employment outcomes for people with disabilities
(Sage and Hammill Institute on Disabilities, 2014-08)Working-age individuals with disabilities are often forced to live in poverty to maintain Medicaid coverage. This study explored the relationship between having assets in excess of usual Medicaid limits and health and ... -
Health Care Behaviors and Decision-Making Processes Among Enrollees In A State High Risk Insurance Pool: Focus Group Findings
(American Journal of Health Promotion,, 2010-05)Purpose-To better understand the relationship between health insurance coverage and health care behaviors of persons with potentially disabling conditions enrolled in a state high risk insurance pool. Approach or Design-Six ... -
Preventing Disability Among Working Participants in Kansas’ High-risk Insurance Pool: Implications for Health Reform
(Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 2011-01-01)Health conditions that prevent individuals from working full time can restrict their access to health insurance. For people living in the 35 states that offer high-risk pools, coverage is available but premiums are 125–200% ... -
Dually-Eligible Working-Age Adults with Disabilities: Issues and Challenges as Health Reform is Implemented
(Disability and Health Journal, 2013)This special section on working-age adults with disabilities dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid is based on two panel presentations at the June 2012 meeting of the AcademyHealth Disability Research Interest Group. ... -
Employment as a Health Determinant for Working-age, Dually-eligible People with Disabilities
(Disability and Health Journal, 2013-04)Background: Individuals with disabilities are a health disparity population with high rates of risk factors, lower overall health status, and greater health care costs. The interacting effect of employment, health and ...