PA Health Law Project Newsletter
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published its March-April 2019 newsletter.
Included in this month’s edition are articles about:
- The launch of a new tool to determine applicants’ eligibility for Medicaid-covered long-term services and supports.
- An update on Medicare Part D payment problems that affect some dually eligible Medicare/Medicaid patients.
- Highlights of the state’s Department of Human Services budget (including Medicaid).
- An update on the status of the Affordable Care Act.
Go here for articles about these and other subjects.
Because the state’s borrowing against future tobacco settlement proceeds was never intended to result in a reduction of these payments in the future, 
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Community HealthChoices is a new state program of managed long-term services and supports for Pennsylvanians over the age of 55 who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has vetoed a bill that included a requirement that certain Medicaid recipients either work or search for work.
Among the possibilities state lawmakers are discussing: tighter rules for participation, greater efficiency, work and work search requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients, charging premiums for high-income families for which Medicaid provides coverage for their profoundly disabled children, and a pilot program to test whether a recipient care management program might eliminate medical errors, improve recipient health, and reduce health care costs.