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Welcome to the Health Care Practice Area section. Here you will find information about a variety of health care programs for low income, elderly and disabled people. The most extensive information is about the Massachusetts Medicaid program (MassHealth) including fair hearing decisions, court decisions, practice memos, advocacy alerts and links to useful websites. If you want information about SSI/ SSDI, check the Disability section; for Medicare issues, check the Elder section.

Please forward suggestions for content, or problems with broken links, etc. to Neil Cronin. ncronin@MLRI.org

Resource Library Materials: Browse the library by topic by clicking on a link in the sidebar to the left. If a listed topic also has subtopics, you can find out what these are by clicking on the triangle. Or, use the search, particularly if you want information on cross substantive issues or wish to restrict your search to a particular kind of document.

See the MassHealth website for regulations and subregulatory materials such as operations memoranda and desk guides.

Recent Content Posted to the Health Care Section

09/01/2008 Massachusetts Department of Public Health

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a federal law that  protects the privacy of your medical records and information.  HIPAA limits who your health care provi Read More

02/01/2012 MLRI

On January 25, 2012, Governor Patrick released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 (FY 13), which is referred to as House 2.  Attached is MLRI's preliminary analysis of of selected Housi Read More

12/12/2011 Vicky Pulos

Some long-awaited changes to the Medical Security program (MSP) (subsidized health insurance for people collecting unemployment insurance) will be taking effect January 1, 2012 for people with direct Read More

11/28/2011 Vicky Pulos, MLRI

This memo by MLRI describes MassHealth's new system for storing and retrieving eligibility documents electronically & offers some practical tips for using the new system & how it may help Read More