Brief Makes Case for Medicaid-Financed Services in SH
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act will provide new insurance coverage to nearly all of the 1.2 million homeless individuals in the United States. This new brief from the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) and the Center for Health Care Strategies, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, outlines the rationale for states to consider designing Medicaid-financed, supportive housing-based care management services to improve care for high-need beneficiaries who are homeless.
Although supportive housing has long been a beneficial approach for individuals with chronic illnesses (and resulting high costs) who are homeless, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increases opportunities for states and communities to take advantage of supportive housing’s benefits:
- Nearly all-homeless chronically ill adults will be Medicaid-eligible beginning in 2014.
- The ACA’s creation of a new state plan option for health home services gives explicit priority to coordinating care for beneficiaries with mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and other chronic conditions that are often found among tenants of supportive housing.
Click here for a copy of the brief.
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Kate Kelly joined Monarch Housing Associates in March of 2011. Prior to that, she worked for seven years at the Partnership for Strong Communities in Hartford, Connecticut as the Reaching Home Campaign Manager. Managing the statewide effort to end long-term homelessness, Kate effectively implemented statewide advocacy campaigns to fund over 700 new supportive housing units for individuals and families. She has experience directing fundraising events and presenting federal and state conferences. At the Partnership, she educated state and federal legislators and staff about supportive housing homelessness issues and advocated for new funding sources. She has also developed public forums that led to formal policy recommendations and educated local constituencies such as policymakers, legislators and funders. Ms. Kelly received her B.A. in government from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S.W from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Click here to send Ms. Kelly an email.
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