MEDICAID and RIte CARE

MEDICAID GLOBAL WAIVER PROPOSAL
•  Letters from RI Congressional Delegation to Secretary Leavitt
•  Analysis of RI's Medicaid Proposal by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
•  Press coverage in Washington Post, New York Times 
•  Testimony by Joan Alker, Deputy Director of the Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute

REPORTS
•  Key Provisions of the "RI Consumer Choice Compact Waiver" (8.08)
•  Key Provisions of Article 17 (5.08)
•  Red Flags for RIte Care (11.07)
•  Congress Must Act Now to Avert the SCHIP Funding Shortfall (9.06)
•  Why Medicaid Matters to Rhode Island
•  Annual Report of the RI department of Human Services' Implementation of Programs to Address Uninsurance Among Rhode Islanders

FACT SHEETS
•  Keeping Track of RIte Care Changes (8.06)
•  Facts about how Medicaid Matters to Rhode Island (1.06)

FAMILY RESOURCE COUNSELORS
•  Family Resource Counselors available in your community

TESTIMONY
•  Comments on Rules related to Co-pays for Prescriptions for Poor Seniors and People with Disabilities
• Comments on regulations that will change eligibility for Medical assistance for many non-citizen children and adults
•  Poverty Institute's comments on DRA Citizenship and Identification Verification Requirements
•  Comments on regulatory changes to Medicaid, Child Care, and RIte Care
•  Medicaid Testimony
•  Enrolling children in RIte Share through non-custodial parents health coverage

• Eligibility
• RI Works (Formerly FIP) and TANF
• Medicaid
• Child Care
• Child Support
• Food and Nutrition Programs
• Housing