Tag Archives: MassHealth

New Form

March 15, 2007 – 9:22 pm

******** – WestMass ElderCare, I am very disappointed to hear that the new rate might be similar to only a small COLA increase. I had hoped that Senator Buoniconti would have been able to help get something approximating fair payment levels for the 24/7 caregivers are responsible for, considering their efforts save the State at [...]

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MassHealth Report

March 15, 2007 – 12:53 am

Good news! There is hope that caregivers in the Adult Foster Care program may eventually be recognized as the asset they are. Several sections of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute's report indicate that MassHealth and the State legislature may be at last "getting it" even if not for the more honorable reason. Rebalance Long-Term Care [...]

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New AFC Regulations

March 9, 2007 – 9:51 pm

I am sending this from one of my email addresses to another. Please feel free to respond to either of them. But …. ** Please Note ** that this email is being sent "Carbon Copy" to several addresses in addition to yours. If you reply to this email, do not include any information you don't [...]

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Complaint

March 6, 2007 – 5:00 pm

After having been unemployed for a year, I was found eligible for MassHealth insurance benefits the next 2 years. But in 2004, a supervisor in the MassHealth Springfield office decided that because of my participation in the AFC program, I was "working". I explained that my situation was not anything like a "real" job in [...]

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Background

March 4, 2007 – 11:53 pm

January 2001 I resigned from my full time position of over 12 years, to become a host caregiver in the MassHealth AFC program. After meeting the specified requirements, I was approved as a host family and began receiving the $19 a day tax free stipend for providing personal care assistance and 24 hours a day [...]

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