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National Groups Urge Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius to reject Utah's request to cut health coverage for children while increasing costs to families

Today, August 3, 2011, 18 national groups submitted a letter to CMS  asking the agency to reject aspects of Utah’s demonstration waiver proposal that threaten to reduce children’s coverage. The proposal seeks to waive:
  1. The requirement that the state provide Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT)—the Medicaid benefit for children.  EPSDT embodies Medicaid’s objective of providing children with the services that are medically necessary for their healthy growth and development.
  2. Medicaid’s cost-sharing protections, potentially exposing very low-income families to unaffordable medical costs in some new and troubling ways.

The proposal submitted would remove important protections that help ensure low-income children have access to affordable care. To read the press release for the letter, click here


 
 
 
 
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