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Comments on RFI on Accelerating Interoperability and Information Exchange Across the Care Continuum

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The Children's Partnership joins a list of twenty-one organizations on this sign-on letter from the Consumer Partnership for eHealth and the Campaign from Better Care, responding to the HHS Request for Information (RFI) on advancing interoperability and health information exchange.
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Terms:Health IT, Submitted Comments
 

Group Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing Eligibility and Enrollment for the Individual Exchange

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Download submitted comments from The Children's Partnership and our consumer advocate partners regarding the Exchange's March 21, 2013 proposed eligibility and enrollment regulations for the Individual Exchange (Covered California). 
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Terms:Beth Morrow, California, California Coverage, Family-Friendly Enrollment, Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Proposed Online and Paper Model Applications

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Download TCP's submitted comments to CMS on the proposed Online and Paper Model Applications, CMS-10440.

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Terms:Beth Morrow, CHIP/Healthy Families, Family-Friendly Enrollment, Federal, Health Care/Reform, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Proposed Rules

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Download submitted comments from California's Children Advocates to CMS on proposed rulemaking regarding streamlining and seamlessness under the ACA, CMS-2334-P.
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Terms:California Coverage, Family-Friendly Enrollment, Federal, Health Care/Reform, Kristen Golden Testa, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Stage 3 Meaningful Use

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Download TCP's submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HIT Policy Committee, regarding Stage 3 Meaningful Use criteria.
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Terms:Beth Morrow, Health Care/Reform, Health IT, HIT, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Oral Health Action Plan

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Download TCPs comments to California's Health Workforce Development Council, which is  charged with helping to expand California’s health workforce in order to provide access to quality healthcare for all Californians.

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Terms:Dental Health, Jenny Kattlove, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on the Single Streamlined Application Data Elements

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Download TCP's submitted comments on Draft Elements and Supporting Statement for Data Collection to Support Eligibility Determinations, CMS-10433, CMS-10438, CMS-10439 and CMS-10440.
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Terms:Family-Friendly Enrollment, Federal, Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Comments, Small Business Health Options Program

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Download TCP's submitted comments  to the California Health Benefit Exchange on Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), regarding employee/employer plan choice and navigators.

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Terms:Health Care/Reform, Kathleen Hamilton, Submitted Comments
 

Comments, California Health Information Exchange “Strategic and Operational Plan, June 2012”

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Download TCP's comments  on California's HIE Strategic and Operational Plan, submitted August 9, 2012

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Terms:Beth Morrow, California, Electronic Information Exchange, Foster Care, Health IT, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Service Center Options

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Download TCP's submitted comments  to the California Health Benefit Exchange on Service Center Options.
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Terms:California, Health Care/Reform, Kathleen Hamilton, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Qualified Health Plan Policies and Strategies to Improve Care, Prevention and Affordablility

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Download TCP's comments on child-only plans , submitted to the California Health Benefit Exchange.
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Terms:California, Health Care/Reform, Kathleen Hamilton, Submitted Comments
 

Comments, Improving Outcomes for Disconnected Youth RFI

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Read the official comments to the U.S. Department of Education on improving outcomes for disconnected youth.
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Terms:Beth Morrow, Electronic Information Exchange, Federal, Foster Care, Health IT, Submitted Comments
 

Group Comments to CMS, General Guidance on Federally-facilitated Exchanges

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The Children's Partnership joined national advocates on this letter to CCIIO/CMS  regarding the May 16, 2012 "General Guidance on Federally-facilitated Exchanges".
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Terms:Federal, Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Group Comment on Medicaid Payment Rule

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Joint advocates letter regarding CMS-2370-P; Medicaid Program: Payments for Services Furnished by Certain Primary Care Physicians and Charges for Vaccine Administration Under the Vaccines for Children Program
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Terms:Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

CHDP Gateway: Maximizing Its Potential for Children as the Affordable Care Act Is Implemented

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Download our recommendations  to California policymakers regarding increasing access to health care for children through the CHDP Gateway under ACA.
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Terms:California, Consumer Engagement, Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Using Express Lane and Related Strategies to Pre-enroll Large Numbers of Uninsured

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Download recommendations sent to California policymakers responsible for designing eligibility and enrollment under ACA
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Terms:California, Express Lane / ELE, Family-Friendly Enrollment, Submitted Comments
 

Interim Final Rule: Establishment of Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans

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Download the submitted comments CMS-9989-F

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Terms:Federal, Health , Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Meaningful Use Stage 2 Proposed Rules

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Download the submitted comments  on CMS-0044.

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Terms:Federal, Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Medicaid Program; Eligibility Changes Under the Affordable Care Act of 2010

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Download submitted comments on CMS-2349-F

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Terms:Federal, Health , Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Stage 2 Proposed Rules

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Download submitted comments  to CMS regarding CMS-0044-P, Meaningful Use Stage 2 Proposed Rules.
May 7, 2012
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Terms:Beth Morrow, Federal, Health IT, Submitted Comments
 

Meaningful Use Stage 2 Preliminary Proposed Rules

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Download the submitted comments  on CMS-0044-P.

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Terms:Federal, Health Care/Reform, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Stage 2 Preliminary Recommendations

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Download our submitted comments to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology regarding the Meaningful Use Workgroup request regarding Meaningful Use Stage 2.
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Terms:Health IT, Submitted Comments, Terri Shaw
 

Formal Comments on SACWIS Regulations.

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Download submitted comments  to the Administration on Children and Families concerning the redesign of requirements for Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (a comprehensive automated case management tool that supports social workers' foster care and adoptions assistance case management practice).

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Terms:Electronic Information Exchange, Federal, Foster Care, Submitted Comments
 

Proposed Rules, Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program

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Download the submitted comments to HIT Policy Committee, CMS-0033-P

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Terms:Federal, Health , Health Care/Reform, Health IT, Submitted Comments
 

Comments on Stage 1 Proposed Rules

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Download comments submitted to CMS on Meaningful Use of Health IT , March 12, 2012.
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Terms:Federal, Health IT, Submitted Comments
 
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Children's Health Care/Health Reform

  • The Children's Partnership Joins Coalition at Press Event to Urge for Action on Medi-Cal Expansion
    on April 11, 2013

    Santa Monica, CA - Wendy Lazarus, Founder & Co-President, joins a broad coalition of health care officials and advocates for a press event in Los Angeles ...

  • Wendy Lazarus on Children and the ACA, A High-Stakes Recipe for Success
    on April 10, 2013

    Huffington Post Blog

    Wendy Lazarus outlines the main "ingredients" for succes that matter the most for kids under the ACA.  "Our collective job over the months ...

Health IT

  • Comments on RFI on Accelerating Interoperability and Information Exchange Across the Care Continuum
    on April 22, 2013
    The Children's Partnership joins a list of twenty-one organizations on this sign-on letter from the Consumer Partnership for eHealth and the Campaign from Better Care, responding to the HHS Request for Information (RFI) on advancing interoperability and health information exchange.
  • Beth Morrow Joins Consumer Empowerment Workgroup
    on April 05, 2013

    The Children's Partnership is pleased to announe that Beth Morrow, Director of Health IT Initiatives, is joining the  Consumer Empowerment Workgroup (CEWG) of the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC). The newly formed Consumer Empowerment Workgroup’s charge is to provide recommendations on policy issues and opportunities for strengthening the ability of consumers, ...

Family-Friendly Enrollment

  • Interviews with Innovators from Oklahoma
    on April 22, 2013

    Innovations in Health Reform Update April 2013  (pdf)

    When it comes to innovators in health reform, Oklahoma deserves special recognition for taking steps to put an online real-time eligibility and enrollment system into place even before the ACA passed. In 2007, Oklahoma began planning for a first-class paperless ...

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  • Group Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing Eligibility and Enrollment for the Individual Exchange
    on April 03, 2013
    Download submitted comments from The Children's Partnership and our consumer advocate partners regarding the Exchange's March 21, 2013 proposed eligibility and enrollment regulations for the Individual Exchange (Covered California). 

Dental Health

  • Virtual Dental Home Educational Event
    on May 08, 2013

    Come Learn About an Innovative Model to Bring Dental Care to Children in Preschool Settings

    The Virtual Dental Home creates a community-based oral health delivery system in ...

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  • Jenny Kattlove Advocates for Alternatives to Increase Access to Oral Care for California's Children.
    on May 01, 2013

    California Health Report

    Concern over accessibility to dental care for children on Medi-Cal brings to surface the need for alternative solutions to increase access. "One of ...

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Foster Care Coordination

  • Expanding the Use of a Personal Health Record (PHR) System to California’s Foster Care Population
    on March 06, 2013

    Ginny Puddefoot, , Director of HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth 

    California Child Welfare Council
    Data ...

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  • Joint Letter on the Proposed Regulations for Medicaid to Age 26 for Eligible Former Foster Youth
    on February 20, 2013

    The Children's Partnership joined the Children's Defense Fund and other child advocacy organizations on a letter to HHS on a new health care law requirement ...

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Internet and 21st Century Skills

  • Wendy Lazarus on Social Gaming and Child Poverty
    on September 27, 2012

    Huffington Post

    As gaming becomes more social, it is expanding into parts of society once seen as untouched by video games. The largest of these groups is women, who make up 55 percent of social gamers on average. Women are also more likely than men to make charitable contributions, care about ...

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  • TCP Gaming Paper Encourages Gaming Industry Towards Philanthropy
    on September 26, 2012

    The Washington Post

    An article highlighting the VirtuallyGood4Kids (VG4K) inititative encouraging  the gaming "industry to provide parents and their kids with more opportunities to direct the money they spend on virtual purchases toward fundraising causes."

    Learn more about VirtuallyGood4Kids.

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