Health Care

"Scoop Essentials: The Dollars And Cents Of Disability", an article published on the Disability Scoop Website features an interview with ASNP Co-Founder, Diedre D. Wachbrit.

On April 4, 2009 ASNP Charter Member, Mark Biernath, joined other guests, Heidi J. Moore and Kendra & David Goerke to talk about Financial Planning For Special Needs Children.

Disability rights groups are calling for the inclusion of long-term care services and supports in health reform.

Ten years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling granted people with disabilities greater access to care outside of institutional settings, hundreds of thousands of people who could live happy, productive lives in their communities still find themselves trapped in nursing...

If you've decided to hire a caregiver for a person with special needs, you'll need to interview the candidates. Here are eleven important questions to ask.

Help is available for families of children with special needs whose private health insurance will no longer cover children once they reach a certain age. The new federal health insurance law requires many private insurers to allow children to remain...

Personal care assistants (PCAs) may be an option to give caregivers needed help. Most states provide personal care services through their Medicaid programs to help families manage the daily care of children, adults and the elderly with long-term disabilities.  ...

The Obama administration may be on the brink of scuttling a new national long-term care insurance program that was part of the health reform law.

More states are choosing to expand Medicaid services for people with low-incomes and the Department of Health and Human Services has just released regulations to ensure that people with disabilities will receive the coverage they need from private health insurers.