PA Health Law Project Newsletter
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published its February 2023 Health Law News newsletter.
Included in this month’s issue are articles about:
- Pennsylvania Medicaid’s decision to continue paying parents as home health aides.
- Medicaid payments toward Medicare Part A premiums for qualified individuals.
- Forgiveness for pandemic-era MAWD (Medical Assistance for Workers With Disabilities) premiums.
- An Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services bulletin on mental health treatment for minors.
Read about these subjects and more in the Pennsylvania Health Law Project’s February 2023 newsletter.

The Independent Regulatory Review Commission has issued comments in response to regulations proposed by the State Board of Nursing that address licensure by endorsement and reactivation. Find those comments in
That continuous Medicaid eligibility, however, will end on April 1 and states have one year to redetermine Medicaid eligibility for everyone currently enrolled in the program. In Pennsylvania, the state estimates that nearly 600,000 of the 3.6 million people now participating in the program will lose their eligibility and another nearly 600,000 may be in danger of doing so.
Department of Health
Stakeholder Events
Included in this month’s issue are articles about:
Department of Human Services
Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)
General Assembly
Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
Shapiro-Davis Transition
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
During the PHE, the number of uninsured children in the state fell from 4.6 percent to 4.4 percent, but some of that improvement could be reversed as the state begins to redetermine the eligibility of more than 3.5 million people currently on the state’s Medicaid rolls after a more than two-year hiatus in eligibility reviews. Today, more than 1.4 million children in Pennsylvania are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP.