Medicare & Disabilities
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Medicare’s Home Health Aide Coverage: Why It’s Difficult to access & What to do about it
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Home health services, including home health aide care, are critical Medicare benefits that allow many beneficiaries to remain safely in their home and out of institutions, like skilled nursing facilities. As long as a beneficiary needs part-time or intermittent skilled services (such as nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, and occupational therapy) and are “homebound”,…
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Medicare Covers Seat Elevation Equipment for eligible Users of Power Wheelchairs
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently made a national coverage decision for Medicare benefits to now include seat elevation equipment for eligible beneficiaries. This is great news. This equipment is essential for power wheelchair users who use them to perform activities of daily living, such as transferring to and from their wheelchair, preparing…
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PACT Act Brings Largest VA Health Care & Benefit Expansion in History
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If you or someone you love receives Veterans benefits, s/he may have their health care and/or benefits increased due to the recent PACT Act. This Act, perhaps the largest health care and benefit expansion in VA history, is a new law that expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent…
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New Bill Would Raise SSI Resource Limits
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Supplement Security Income (SSI) is a lifeline program for over 80 million older adults and people with disabilities throughout the U.S. Yet this program hasn’t been updated in close to 40 years. The long neglect essentially bars this program from helping the greater number of people it was originally designed to assist and ends up…
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Medi-Cal Share of Cost Needs Reform – CHA Calls on Governor Newsom
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California Health Advocates, along with 41 other advocacy organizations across the state, submitted a letter to Governor Newsom asking him to reform Medi-Cal’s share of cost calculation in his 2022-2023 January budget proposal. Even though the recent increase in allowable income for free Medi-Cal has helped a large number of people access medical care without…
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