The Department of Public Welfare is considering changes to the Medicaid PH-95 (“loophole”) category. Are you a parent of a child or youth with a disability or special health care need? Help us show DPW how co-payments would impact Pennsylvania families.
As part of the Pennsylvania State Budget for 2011-2012, the Department of Public Welfare will begin charging co-payments for some Medicaid services. Children with disabilities covered by Medicaid in the PH-95 category (sometimes called “loophole”) whose family income is more than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines (or about $45,000 a year for a family of four) are likely to see new co-pays. At this point DPW is still deciding how to implement the co-payments.
Several organizations including PA Health Law Project, PA Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Disabilities Rights Network and the Mental Health Association of PA would like to show DPW what families spend out-of-pocket now and what the impact of co-payments might look like.
If you have a child or youth under 21 with a disability or other special health care need, you can help us by completing the survey through the link below. The survey does not collect any information that can be used to identify individual families. We will only share summaries of the information we collect with DPW.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7JLQ88
Thank you for your help and for your time. If you have any questions, please contact Ann Bacharach, Special Projects Director, PHLP 215-625-3596 x101 or abacharach@phlp.org