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    Applying Online: Technological Innovation for Income Support Programs in Four States

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    A study examining the development, implementation, and best practices for online applications for public benefits programs in California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Washington based on interviews with state agencies and community-based organizations

    Overview of Final Medicaid Eligibility Regulation

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    Summarizes final Medicaid eligibility rules, including by category, residency, and income; verification; and coordination of eligibility and enrollment between Medicaid and other programs

    SHAP Enrollment and Eligibility Activities: Implications for Process and System Modernization Under National Health Reform

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    Shares five states' experiences and best practices in using State Health Access Program grants to expand public health coverage through community-based outreach and improved eligibility and enrollment processes, as well as implications for federal reform

    Simplification of Health and Social Services Enrollment and Eligibility: Lessons for California From Interviews in Four States

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    Explores state officials' and advocates' views on issues involved in streamlining enrollment and eligibility processes, including the importance of staff buy-in, community partners' outreach efforts, and technological challenges and lessons learned

    All-Payer Claims Database Development Manual: Establishing a Foundation for Health Care Transparency and Informed Decision Making

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    With support from the Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center, the APCD Council has developed a manual for states to develop all-payer claims databases. Titled All-Payer Claims Database Development Manual: Establishing a Foundation for Health Care Transparency and Informed Decision Making, the manual is a first-of its-kind resource that provides states with detailed guidance on common data standards, collection, aggregation and analysis involved with establishing these databases

    Federal Funding for Integrated Service Delivery: A Toolkit

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    Outlines the integrated approach to career advancement, income enhancements and work supports, and financial and asset-building services of Casey's Center for Working Families. Examines federal funding streams available, eligibility, and potential issues

    Building Wealth on the Foundation of Employment Portfolio Series

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    [Excerpt] The vision of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) is to advance the economic futures of workers, including those with disabilities. The unique mission of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) within USDOL is to promote the involvement, cooperation, and collaboration of multiple federal, state, and local agencies with the private sector, to increase participation of individuals with disabilities in the workforce and economic mainstream. No single program, policy, funding stream, or strategy is a universal solution for the multiple challenges encountered by individuals with disabilities who want become economically self-sufficient. Yet, across the federal government, there are tools and strategies now being implemented to help lift low-income wage earners—including individuals with disabilities—out of poverty and empower them through employment and expanded economic opportunities. This portfolio series introduces asset development concepts, tools, and activities that individuals with disabilities, their families, and the workforce development professionals who support them can use to build wealth on the foundation of successful employment

    Report on the IowaCare program administered by the Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, a division of the Department of Human Services, for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2012

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    Report on the IowaCare program administered by the Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, a division of the Department of Human Services, for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 201

    Implementing State Health Reform: Lessons for Policymakers

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    Drawing on five states' experiences, discusses questions and considerations, including the need to coordinate state agencies' work and share data, simplify eligibility and enrollment procedures, and involve community groups and businesses in outreach

    Getting and Keeping Health Coverage for Low-Income Californians: A Guide for Advocates

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    Western Center's "Getting and Keeping Health Care Coverage for Low-Income Californians: A Guide for Advocates", provides California advocates -- legal services attorneys, enrollment counselors, health care workers, community organizers and others -- with the relevant statutes, regulations, and guidance needed to help their clients access health care coverage. Our hope is that this guide provides those in the field with the necessary support needed to help low-income Californians determine eligibility, and enroll and retain coverage
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