Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Substance Abuse 130

Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Emergency Preparedness Rule to provide a national framework for healthcare organizations to improve their readiness for emergencies. This regulation established consistent emergency preparedness requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers of all types.

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Healthcare Medicare Medicaid Psychiatric 52

Relias

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Key sources of IHS funding The IHS is primarily funded by federal appropriations, along with grants, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements, and third-party billing. Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements Tribal health programs can enroll as Medicaid and Medicare providers to receive reimbursements for eligible services.

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Healthcare Medicare Medicaid Substance Abuse 52

KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In addition, the federal Family First Prevention Services Act introduced some restrictions on reimbursement that inadvertently reduced access to high-quality residential treatment. ” How We Can Stop Kids from Sleeping in Offices No child should sleep in an office – it’s wrong.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare 59

Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The relationship between patient satisfaction scores, reimbursement, and health outcomes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring helps hospitals and governing bodies evaluate patient satisfaction through quantitative measurements.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Medicare Hospitals Clinic 52

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 158

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’ve always felt most comfortable working with the sickest of the sick, and I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for their plight because I’ve increasingly noticed that they are most neglected by treatment providers and the government. The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965.

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Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Indian Health Service or the Veterans Affairs health system). Here is a link to resources including templates by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that can be used to prepare good faith estimates and model language for informing patients of their rights to GFE.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Psychotherapy 98

Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

Most are insured through Medicaid, which excludes a wide range of mental health treatments such as art therapy, music therapy, yoga therapy, and equine therapy, readily available to higher-income households. Medicaid generally limits treatment to talk therapy, which simply does not work for many experiencing foster care.

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Mental Health Medicaid Foster Care Schizophrenia 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

With CJMR there’s no way to protect your family from government agencies taking your most basic, and in some cases, most private data, and turning it against you. And sure enough, the developers say, it works! How do they know? There is no chance for informed consent or any kind of consent.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Are they on Medicaid? This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. Most of the time, designers of predictive analytics algorithms try to duck charges of racism by not explicitly including race as a factor. Was the family homeless? that disproportionately include families of color.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

of citizens identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native relied on Medicaid or other public health insurance, and 14.9% on Medicaid or public health insurance and only 6.3% Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) reported that 42.1% had no coverage at all. with 34.3%

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Telehealth Clinic Medicaid 59

Relias

JULY 14, 2023

More recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Maternity Care Action Plan , which also focuses on improving maternal health outcomes and advancing health equity. However, the continued push for improvement from medical entities, government agencies, and private organizations can only help.

Clinic 52

Clinic Mental Health Domestic Violence Healthcare 52

Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

New requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in November 2021 and a new time-limited enforcement effort by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced in March call for focused inspections and put a higher level of scrutiny on nursing home compliance and the quality of care provided.

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Nursing Home Medicare Medicaid Hospitals 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” The Imprint has a good round-up of research documenting the confusion of poverty with neglect.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 107