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Newsletters
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project publishes 2 bi-monthly newsletters:
- Health Law PA News
- Senior Health News
Click to access recent and past editions of either newsletter. Contact us at (800)274-3258 or email us at staff@phlp.org to sign up for our mailing lists.
Manuals and Brochures by Topic
Billing Issues
Children
Complaints and Grievances
Drug and Alcohol
Dual Eligibles
Health Care and Services for Persons with Disabilities
Health Care for Immigrants
Health Care for Seniors
Health Care for Uninsured
Health Care for Women
Home and Community Based Services
Long Term Care
Managed Care
Medicare
Accessing Health Care Services Through HealthChoices
Medicaid/Medical Assistance Eligibility
Medicaid/Medical Assistance Services
Mental Health
Mental Retardation
Prescription Drug access
Transportation
Other Brochures
Billing Issues
Billing Issues for Consumers with BOTH Medicare and Medicaid
Children (Click to return to our Healthcare for Children page).
Flyer on reporting parental income for children on MA through loophole
Loophole Manual - How to Get Medical Assistance for a Child with a Severe Disability (pdf, March 2008)
How to determine whether a child with mental illness or a bio-neurological disorder meets the standards for "disability."
CHIP Explained
Advocating for Behavioral Health Services for your Child
Understanding "Wraparound" Services for Children in HealthChoices
Accessing Behavioral Health Services for your Child: The Interagency Service Planning Team (ISPT) Meeting
The Psychological Evaluation
Complaints and Grievances (Click to return to our Complaints and Grievances page).
What if I Disagree with my Medical Assistance Plan?: Grievances, Complaints, and Fair Hearings (updated Nov 2004)
Drug and Alcohol (Click to return to our Drug and Alcohol page).
Accessing MH and D&A services in Southwestern PA
How to obtain Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Services in Butler County (in pdf- updated Feb 2005)
Getting MH and DA Services in Southeastern PA
Getting MH & DA Services in the Lehigh-Capital Area
MA Eligibility for Persons Undergoing Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Dual Eligibles (Click to return to our Dual Eligible page).
Dual Eligibles' Access to Care: An Advocate's Guide to Assisting the Dual Eligible Consumer in the Philadelphia area (Updated Version in pdf August 2007)
Timeline for Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit implementation (Factsheet in pdf, Factsheet in Word) (Updated May 2005)
How to Get Health Care Services When You Are On Medicare and Medical Assistance - HealthChoices Edition
How to Get Health Care Services When You Are On Medicare and Medical Assistance - Fee For Service/Access Card Edition
Billing Issues for Consumers with BOTH Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid for Persons with Disabilities: A Manual for Advocates and Consumers (in pdf- updated May 2004)
Click here for Publications on Medicare
Health Care and Services for Persons with Disabilities (Click to return to our Persons with Disabilities page).
Medicare and Medicaid for Persons with Disabilities: A Manual for Advocates and Consumers (in pdf- updated May 2004)
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Programs: A Manual for Consumers and Advocates (Manual - in pdf)
What Happens to My SSI, SSDI, and Healthcare if I Work? A Guide for Adults with Disabilities (Manual - in pdf updated August 2007)
Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities (MAWD)- consumers (in pdf, updated Feb 2008)
Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities (MAWD)- advocates (in pdf, updated Feb 2007)
Getting Healthcare Coverage and Services for Adults Who are Age 18-59: A Guide for Consumers and Advocates
What if I Disagree with my Medical Assistance Plan?: Grievances, Complaints, and Fair Hearings (updated Nov 2004)
Health Care for Immigrants (Click to return to our Health Care for Immigrants page).
What are My Language Rights?
What if my Providers Speak Only English?
Health Care for Seniors (Click to return to our Health Care for Seniors page).
Timeline for Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Implementation (June 2005) (PDF version) (Word version)
How to Get Help with Your Medicare Expenses
How to Get Health Care Services When You Are On Medicare and Medical Assistance - HealthChoices Edition
How to Get Health Care Services When You Are On Medicare and Medical Assistance - Fee For Service/Access Card Edition
Billing Issues for Consumers with BOTH Medicare and Medicaid
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Programs: A Manual for Consumers and Advocates (Manual - in pdf)
Consumers Guide to the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program- for Southwestern Pennsylvanians with Disabilities (in pdf- updated 12/04)
Health Care for Uninsured (Click to return to our Health Care for Uninsured page)
Getting Healthcare Coverage and Services for Adults Who are Age 18-59: A Guide for Consumers and Advocates
adultBasic Program Flyer (in pdf- updated March 2007)
Health Care for Women (Click to return to our Health Care for Women page).
Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Program Flyer (in pdf - updated 2007)
HIV/AIDS
Home and Community Based Services (click to return to our Home and Community Based Services page)
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Programs: A Manual for Consumers and Advocates (Manual - in pdf)
Long Term Care (click to return to our Long Term Care page)
Personal Care Home Manual for advocates (Feb 2007)
Personal Care Home Residents's Rights brochure (Feb 2006)
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Programs: A Manual for Consumers and Advocates (Manual - in pdf)
Personal Care Home White Paper
Managed Care (click to return to our Managed Care page)
What if I Disagree with my Medical Assistance Plan?: Grievances, Complaints, and Fair Hearings (updated 11/04)
Accessing Health Care Services Through HealthChoices (click to go to our webpage on accessing healthcare services through HealthChoices)
Getting Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (for Southeast PA in pdf) (for Southwest PA in pdf)
What if I Disagree with my HealthChoices Plan?: Department of Public Welfare Fair Hearings
What to do When You're Unhappy with your Managed Care Plan
Medicaid/Medical Assistance Eligibility (click to return to our Medicaid/Medical Assistance page)
Medicare and Medicaid for Persons with Disabilities: A Manual for Advocates and Consumers (in pdf- updated May 2004)
Can my Family Still Keep Medical Assistance after We Go off Welfare?
MA Eligibility Manual (in pdf- updated 2006)
MA Eligibility for Persons Undergoing Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Medicaid/Medical Assistance Services (click to return to our Medicaid/Medical Assistance page)
Getting Healthcare Coverage and Services for Adults Who are Age 18-59: A Guide for Consumers and Advocates
Fact sheet about Access Plus (March 2005)
What if I Disagree with my Medical Assistance Plan?: Grievances, Complaints, and Fair Hearings (updated Nov 2004)
What is HIPP? Pennsylvania's Health Insurance Premium Payment Program
How to obtain Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Services in the Southwest.
Medicare (click to return to our Medicare page)
List of Medicare drug plans which have no monthly premium for full subsidy consumers (Nov 2007)(inPDF)
How To Choose a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (Nov 2007)(inPDF)
Understanding the Medicare Part D Reassignment Process (Nov 2007)(inPDF)
List of Medicare Rx plans partnering with PACE/ PACENET/ SPBP/ CRDP (Nov 2007)(inPDF)
Low-Incomes Subsidy brochure (English Version in pdf August 2007 / Spanish Version in pdf August 2007).
Covered Drugs under Medicare Part D (June 2007) (in pdf) (in Word)
How Medicare Assistance Drug Coverage will Change with Medicare (May 2007) (in pdf) (In Word)
Medicare Part D Manual: A Guide for Advocates and Providers who Work with Older Adults in Pennsylvania (October 2007) (in pdf)
Low-Income subsidies- Eligiblity and application (Feb 2007)(in pdf)
Getting Medicare Information in Alternate Formats (Mar 2006)(in PDF)
How Medicare Part D affects consumers who already have a Medicare HMO. (Oct 2005) (In PDF)
Medigap Polices and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. (Sept 2005) (In PDF) (In Word)
Overview of the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit (April 2005) (In PDF) (In Word)
The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit for people with both Medical Assistance and Medicare (April 2005) (In PDF) (In Word)
The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Low-Income subsidies (April 2005) (In PDF) (In Word)
Timeline for Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit implementation (Updated May 2005) (In PDF) (In Word)
Medicare and Medicaid for Persons with Disabilities: A Manual for Advocates and Consumers (in pdf- updated May 2004)
Mental Health (click to return to our Mental Health page)
Consumer Empowerment: A Guide to Advocacy for Mental Health Consumers in Pennsylvania (2007) in pdf
Getting Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services - Brochure (for Southeast PA in pdf) (for Southwest PA in pdf)
How to obtain Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Services in Southwest Pennsylvania - Manual
Advocating for Behavioral Health Services for your Child
Understanding "Wraparound" Services for Children in HealthChoices
Accessing Behavioral Health Services for your Child: The Interagency Service Planning Team (ISPT) Meeting
The Psychological Evaluation
Mental Retardation (click to return to our Mental Retardation page)
Prescription Drug Access (click to return to our Prescription Drug Access page)
Brochure on Understanding the PACE Program (in pdf August 2007)
Consumers Guide to the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program- for Southwestern Pennsylvanians with Disabilities (in pdf- updated Dec 2004)
How to Access Prescription Drug Coverage in Pennsylvania (in pdf- upated Oct 2004)
Pennsylvania Patient Assistance Program (in pdf- updated Dec 2004)
Getting Help with Prescription Drug Costs through the MedCo settlement (in pdf- updated Dec 2004)
Transportation (click to return to our Transportation page)
Medical Assistance Transportation
MATP White Paper (in pdf)
Medical Assistance Transportation Program (MATP)
OTHER BROCHURES
How to Get Your Medical Records
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