Health Care

If you have a child with special needs who requires an institutional level of care that can be provided in your home instead of in a hospital or other institution, the Katie Beckett Medicaid Waiver program may allow you to...

Special Needs 101

The Temple University Collaborative has written "A Practical Guide for People With Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Work" to help provide that support to people with mental health diagnoses who wish to return to successful careers.

Special Needs 101

Many Medicaid recipients don't realize that their health insurance coverage generally will not provide a full set of benefits should they require care while out of state.

Special Needs 101

The American Rescue Plan, signed into law by President Biden, makes health coverage bought through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) vastly more affordable for millions of Americans, at least for two years.

The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 finally went into effect this year, and it promises to dramatically alter the way people with mental illness receive and pay for treatment.

More than ten years after the measure was first proposed, Congress finally passed a law requiring that insurance companies provide enrollees suffering from mental illness with coverage equal to the coverage they would receive for any other type of condition.

In an apparent violation of federal law, states are increasingly using nursing homes to house young and middle-age people with mental illnesses.

One of the programs on the cutting edge of community mental health is called "supportive housing," and it incorporates not only housing but social services and medical care as well.

In a recent article, several professors advocate for greater funding for programs that have shown great success in quickly placing people with mental illness in jobs they like and are able to keep.