This section includes articles about Insurance, Medicaid, and other funding sources.
Insurance and Medicaid Policy and Other Funding Options
- Home Nursing Reimbursement Rates: An Enormous Problem for Children with Complex Medical Conditions
- Top 5 Myths About Medicaid and Kids with Disabilities
- The Children of Medicaid
- Advocating with Legislators for Parents of Kids Who are Medically Complex
- Fixing Healthcare: Working Together
- ABLE Accounts: Saving While Preserving Your Child’s Access to Medicaid and Other Social Services
- Home Nursing Care: Who Should Get It, and How Much? An Analysis of State-by-State Diversity
- How to Keep Your Kid Out of Medicaid Managed Care
- Programs for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Another Funding Option through Title V
- The Complexities of Moving a Child with Special Needs
- Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) Programs: Assistance Paying for Private Insurance for Kids with Complex Medical Issues
- Funding Sources for Uncovered Supplies and Equipment
- The Most Annoying Part of Special Needs Parenting
- Kids’ Waivers: A Website on Children’s Medicaid Waivers
- EPSDT: 5 Little Letters to Get Everything Your Child Needs
- Guaranteed Medicaid for Children with Complex Medical Needs
- Our Broken System
- How to Take on Your State in 10 Easy Steps
- Fighting the New York State Medicaid Red Tape
- The Problem with Medicaid Block Grants for Children with Complex Medical Needs
- What is Olmstead? Protecting Children from Being Forced into Institutions
- Getting the Most from Your Insurance
Funding of Specific Items and Services
- Home Nursing Reimbursement Rates: An Enormous Problem for Children with Complex Medical Conditions
- 10 Strategies for Finding Nurses
- Funding for Specialty Medical Beds
- Funding and Benefits of Aquatic Therapy
- How to Appeal an Insurance Denial: 9 Steps to Success
- Home Nursing Care: Who Should Get It, and How Much? An Analysis of State-by-State Diversity
- Insurance and Medicaid Coverage for Children’s Hearing and Vision Assistance Devices
- Funding Sources for Uncovered Supplies and Equipment
- A Resource Guide for Enteral Formula Coverage
- New York State of (Nursing) Mind
- How to Increase Your Child’s Medicaid Private Duty Nursing Hours
- Respite Nursing for Rookies
- How to Take on Your State in 10 Easy Steps
- Fighting the New York State Medicaid Red Tape
- Diaper and Incontinence Product Coverage Through Medicaid and Insurance
Financial Planning
- ABLE Accounts: Saving While Preserving Your Child’s Access to Medicaid and Other Social Services
- Preparing Financially for a Child’s End-of-Life
- 5 Tax Tips for Parents of Children with Complex Medical Issues
- Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) Programs: Assistance Paying for Private Insurance for Kids with Complex Medical Issues
- Bleeding Water from a Stone: Budgeting, Being Frugal, and Saving on a Limited Income
- Special Needs Trusts and Financial Planning
- Funding Sources for Uncovered Supplies and Equipment
Articles from the Archives
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- Writing Winning Insurance Appeal Letters
- The Hidden Financial Costs of Having a Child with Special Needs, Part 1: The Problem
- The Hidden Financial Costs of Having a Child with Special Needs, Part 2: The Solutions
- Health Care Reforms in Effect that Impact Children who are Medically Complex
- Access Denied: When a Hospital Drops Your Insurance
- How to Get a Communication Device for Your Child
- Why You (and Your Insurance Company) Need to Get Your Child Standing
- Give Me Some Damn Oxygen!
- Medical Strollers for Kids Who Walk
- Medical Food Coverage and Legislation
- Gamma Globulin Treatment for Children Without a Defined Immunodeficiency
- Federal and State Assistance Programs for Children with Special Needs
- Medicaid Waivers Must Be Transferable from State to State
- Obtaining In-Home Services
- Getting Paid to Care for Your Child
- Nursing and Respite Care Benefits