Pennsylvania Health Law Project Newsletter
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published its February 2021 newsletter.
Included in this month’s edition are articles about:
- the continuation of certain Medicaid protections, including continuous coverage, during the COVID-19 emergency;
- COVID-19 vaccinations and state reimbursement for those vaccines;
- the availability of Medicaid-covered remote and in-home adult daily living services;
- Medicaid services for individuals between the ages of 18 and 20 who have chronic disabilities;
- a new monthly webinar that will be offered by the state’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; and
- Pennsylvania’s selection of a vendor to operate its Resource Information and Services Enterprise (RISE-PA), the state’s planned resource and referral tool.
Read about these subjects and more in the Pennsylvania Health Law Project’s February 2021 newsletter.
RISE PA” – “RISE” is short for “Resource Information and Services Enterprise” – is, according to DHS, a “…collaborative effort between multiple state agencies, counties, and local non-profits and community organizations, health care, and social services providers” that will “…serve as an access point to search and obtain meaningful information to help Pennsylvanians find and access the services they need to achieve overall well-being and improve health outcomes” while serving as a “…care coordination system for providers…and a closed-loop referral system that will report on the outcome of referrals.”