Medicaid/Medi-Cal

Budget pressures are forcing many governors and legislators to find ways to trim their Medicaid expenses.  Through tightening eligibility or cutting benefits, states seek to lower their costs. Often, these changes are illegal. NSCLC seeks to protect Medicaid services (especially those which are home and community based) and the millions of low-income older adults and persons with disabilities who depend on them, through administrative advocacy and litigation.

For more Medicaid related information visit our Long-Term Services & Supports page.

• WEBINAR: Understanding Notices and Appeal Rights in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports
  Free Webinar The overlay of managed care in Medicaid raises new issues in how beneficiaries can -- or cannot -- understand and exercise their rights. Understanding the rules and options is crucial both for assisting individual clients and negotiating ...



• WEBINAR: Understanding and Impacting Implementation of New Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Rules
   April 29, 2014 New federal Medicaid rules would, for the first time, set standards that seek to ensure Medicaid HCBS is provided in non-institutional settings, however, many details remain to be determined by individual states. Consumers, advocates ...



• WEBINAR: Consumer Protection in MLTSS: Good (and Not-So-Good) Enrollment and Disenrollment Practices
  March 31, 2014 This webinar (the second in a series based on the Advocate’s Library of Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Contract Provisions) examined and discussed how states handle enrollment to and disenrollment from Medicaid managed care l...



• WEBINAR: Details Matter- Service Planning and Self-Direction in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports
  March 07, 2014 An Introduction to NSCLC’s New Advocate’s Library A wave of new Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services (MLTSS) programs is sweeping the country and promising to impact the way care is delivered to millions of seniors and people with d...



• WEBINAR: Cal-MediConnect – A Summary of the Three-Way Contract
  Cal- MediConnect - A Summary of the Three-Way Contract In March 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the template of the three-way-contract CMS entered into with the Department of Health Care Services and the health pla...



• WEBINAR: The Affordable Care Act- What it Means for Seniors
  Free Webinar - December 12, 2013 Did you miss the first The Affordable Care Act: What It Means for Seniors webinar? We are offering it again... The Affordable Care Act brings new opportunities and challenges for seniors, including the expansion o...



• WEBINAR: The Affordable Care Act- What it Means for Seniors
  Free Webinar - November 06, 2013 The Affordable Care Act brings new opportunities and challenges for seniors, including the expansion of Medicaid in many states and enrollment in health insurance plans through marketplaces or exchanges beginning on ...



• NSCLC and Florida Advocates Publish Medicaid Long Term Care Guides and Tips
  Seeking to prepare both advocates and consumers for Florida's plan to move most consumers in long-term care to managed care, the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys, Florida Legal Services and NSCLC have published a number of easy-to-understand mate...



• Advocates Look to NSCLC for How DOMA Impacts Benefits Programs
  In an August 20, 2013 webinar attended by some 500 advocates from across the country, The Demise of DOMA: The Impact on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for Same Sex Couples, Directing Attorneys Gerald McIntyre and Georgia Burke explained what is...



• WEBINAR: Talking to Your Clients about the Duals Demonstrations and MLTSS: Keeping it Simple
  The Aging and Disability Partnership invites you to a webinar: States are gearing up to enroll individuals into new dual eligible and Medicaid managed long term-services and supports (MLTSS) programs. In most states with demonstration projects or ne...