A one-page chart clearly outlines who can receive which benefits and under what circumstances.
Massachusetts residents with questions about medications or difficulty paying for them can get help.
"Outreach & enrollment" means much more than putting up posters and helping people fill out MassHealth applications. Recently, over the course of a two hour appointment, my supervisor and I counseled one household on eleven different public health insurance, subsidy and care programs. We helped them file four separate applications to five different insurance programs, putting together a patchwork of care options to cover the hole left by the loss of employer-sponsored insurance.
MassHealth will not count federal economic stimulus rebates as income, but can consider them assets after an exemption period.
This online tool identifies organizations helping with MassHealth, Commonwealth Choice and Commonwealth Care enrollment.
Pathways now includes Commonwealth Care eligibility information.
Elder law attorneys Paula Almgren and Deborah Marchand answered questions about how to help seniors apply for MassHealth, Free Care and Community-Based Medicaid (a little-known program for elders at home or in assisted-living communities) at our February 4 Western Health Access Network meeting. Click here for a Q&A summary and for a page of info on the Medicaid Home Care Waiver program (PDF files).
