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Mass State budget update

Submitted By hbrauner - 5/25/2006 1:22 pm

Health Care For All provides regular updates on their website. Here is on of their recent articles on where the budget stands.

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Mass State budget update

Submitted By hbrauner - 5/25/2006 1:21 pm

Health Care For All provides regular updates on their website. Here is on of their recent articles on where the budget stands.

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Immigrant MassHealth recipients must complete sponsor forms to remain eligible

Submitted By rdolloff - 3/26/2005 9:43 am

Recently, immigrant MassHealth recipients received forms to be completed by their sponsors concerning the sponsor's income. Even though in many cases sponsors don't in fact provide the support they should, immigrants will be cut off MassHealth if their sponsors have too much income.

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Free Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Services Now Available Free to Eligible Women Throughout Mass.

Submitted By rdolloff - 2/15/2005 4:59 pm

Low income North Shore women can now get access to free breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services in our area. The services are provided as part of the Massachusetts Women's Health Network, a program of the Department of Public Health. To be eligible, a person must:

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MassHealth Waiver Approval, Essential to Reopen, HIV Coverage Expands Back to 200% of Poverty

Submitted By rdolloff - 1/24/2005 10:24 am

There finally is good news to report on the renewal of the Massachusetts Medicaid (MassHealth) waiver.  While many details remain unknown, we do know that the huge, $600 million cut in federal reimbursement to the state has been avoided, at least for the next year, with commitments from the federal government to work out the federal reimbursement issues in subsequent years, as long as Massachusetts changes some of its methodology for meeting its state share of MassHealth expenditures. 

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