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Healthcare
Access to quality, affordable health care is of highest importance to individuals with disabilities and their families. Navigating the changing health care system can be challenging.
UCP is a voice for individuals with disabilities, their families, and providers in the debate to ensure quality access to care in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. UCP will continue to help shape the health policy debate and inform individuals of how to get and stay involved.
Documents:
- Join Exploring Spasticity (For Clinicians)
- Medicare, Managed Care and AAC Devices
- Medicare & You
- The Importance of Medicaid to People with Disabilities: State-by-State Fact Sheets
- Children's Hospitals, Listing by State
- Been Denied SSI? You Can Help
- Comment on Surgeon General's Initiative on Mental Retardation
- Decision Making and Appeals Process for Non-HMO Participants
- HHS Provides Written Guidance for HHS Providers To Ensure Language Assistance for Persons with Limited English Skills
- healthfinder® and healthfinder® espagnol: Your Free Guide to Reliable Consumer Health & Human Services Information
- Supplemental Security Income and the Family Law Attorney
- UCP Endorses Grassley/Kennedy Bill to Expand Medicaid "Buy Ins" by Families of Children with Disabilities
- Using State Insurance Laws to Advance the Cause of Assistive Technology
- Work Incentives for Persons with Disabilities Under the Social Security and SSI Programs
- State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and Their Obligation to Maximize Employment
- GlaxoSmithKline Launches Discount Drug Program
- Pfizer to Provide Health Benefits to Low-Income Seniors Across America
- Washington State Voters Approve Personal-Support Attendant Initiative
- CARF Approved to Accredit Opioid Treatment Programs
- Major Victory in the Fight for Greater Coverage of Assistive Technology
- SCHIP Coverage for Prenatal Care
- Many Obese Youth Have Condition That Precedes Type 2 Diabetes
- Senator Clinton Lauds UCP Support for New Bill to Compile Data on CP and Other Disabilities
- Medical Privacy: HHS Secretary Shalala Criticizes Bush Administration
- HHS to Allow Feeding Assistants for Nursing Home Residents
- HHS Awards $923 Million to Ensure Medical Care, Support Services and Prescription Drugs for People with HIV/AIDS
- Medicare Coverage of Prescription Drugs Not Usually Self-Administered by the Patient
- CMS Moderately Expands Medicare Coverage for Injected Drugs
- Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Can Help Prevent or Delay Disability in Patients
- U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to HMOs, CNN.com, 6/20/02
- HHS Awards $25.6 Million to Train, Educate Providers Caring for People with HIV/AIDS
- HHS Report Shows More American Children with Health Coverage
- President Takes Action to Lower Prescription Drug Prices By Improving Access to Generic Drugs
- Bush to Propose Changes in Medicare Plan, 1/3/03
- 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children
- HHS Approves Alabama Program for Individuals with a Disability
- Medicaid Recipients with Disabilities Benefit from Directing Their Own Personal Care Services, Study Finds
- Medicare Announces Updated Rates for Long Term Care Hospitals, 6/2/03
- Know Your Privacy Rights Under HIPAA
- CMS Notice Regarding Medicare Limits on Therapy Services
- CMS Announces the Standard Unique Health Identifier for Health Care Providers for Use in Standard Transactions under HIPAA