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Resources on Immigrants and Health
Care Coverage (Link to a page containing links to resources
compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid
and the Uninsured.) (Link posted 3/19/08) |
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Immigrants and Health Care: At the
Intersection of Two Broken Systems. "For recent
immigrants [to the U.S.] -- especially the estimated 12 million who are
here illegally -- seeking health care often involves daunting encounters
with a fragmented, bewildering, and hostile system."
(Perspective/analysis by Susan Okie, M.D., in The New England Journal
of Medicine, 8/9/07.) |
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Immigrants and the U.S. Health Care
System (PDF) (Prepared by CIPC, the California Immigrant
Policy Center, 9/06). Immigration restrictionists in the
U.S. often accuse immigrants of using health care services
for which they are not eligible or of using them more than everyone
else. Generally, however, such accusations are unsubstantiated and
based on uninformed assumptions. This issue brief provides
research-based information about immigrants' use of health care in the
U.S. |
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Facts About Immigrants' Low Use of
Health Services and Public Benefits (9/29/06) |
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Language Barriers to Health Care in
the United States (Perspective/analysis by Glenn Flores,
M.D., in The New England Journal
of Medicine, 7/20/06) |
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Unequal Access: Immigrants and U.S.
Health Care (7/06) (A report by Sarita A. Mohanty, M.D.,
M.P.H., for the Immigration Policy Center's Immigration Policy in
Focus, July 2006). From the IPC's summary of the report:
"Some policymakers have called for [even more stringent] limits on
immigrants' access to health insurance, particularly Medicaid . . . .
However, policies that restrict immigrants' access to some health care
services lead to the inefficient and costly use of other services (such
as emergency room care) and negatively impact public health. The future
economic success of the United States depends on a healthy workforce.
Therefore, policies must be devised that improve, rather than restrict,
immigrants' access to quality health care." |
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Language Barriers Pose a Risk for
California HMO Enrollees (5/06) (A research brief
published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research) |
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Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services Issues Final Guidance on Reimbursing
Health Care Providers for Emergency Services to Uninsured Immigrants (5/23/05) (PDF) |
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, "Proposed
Implementation Approach: Federal Funding of Emergency Health Services
Furnished to Undocumented Aliens: Federal Fiscal Years 2005 through 2008"
(7/21/04)(PDF)
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NILC comments re:
Federal reimbursement of emergency health services provided to
undocumented immigrants (6/10/04) (PDF) |
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Comprehensive Health Care for Immigrants: A Sound Strategy for Fiscal
and Public Health (4/04) (PDF) |
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Prenatal
Coverage for Immigrants Through the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP) (6/03)
(PDF) |
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Immigrant-Friendly
Health Coverage Outreach and Enrollment (6/02) (PDF) |
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National
Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health
Care, Office of Minority Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human
Services (12/22/00) |
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Immigrants' Rights Update Articles
(back
to IRU index) |
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Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services Issues Final
Guidance on Reimbursing Health Care Providers for Emergency Services to
Uninsured Immigrants (6/30/05) |
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Colorado
Legislature Votes to Restore Medicaid Eligibility for Immigrants (2/10/05) |
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CMS Still Has Not Finalized Process
for Health
Care Provider Reimbursement under "Section 1011" (9/21/04) |
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Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services Details Proposed Process for Distributing
Emergency Services Reimbursement Funds (8/9/04) |
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Connecticut Restores State-Funded Benefits
to Immigrants (6/18/04) |
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Bill Requiring Hospitals
to Report Undocumented
Persons Defeated (6/18/04) |
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GAO Reports
on Uncompensated Care to Undocumented Immigrants
(6/18/04) |
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House
Rejects Bill to Require Health Providers to Report Undocumented Patients to the
Government (5/20/04) |
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Momentum for Immigrant Amendments
Builds as TANF Bill Is Extended for Three Months without Change
(5/20/04) (posted under
"Congressional Developments") |
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Montejo Gaspar Montejo v. Martin Memorial Medical Center
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Florida
Court Reverses Ruling Permitting Hospital to Repatriate Undocumented Patient
(5/20/04) |
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Benito Luna
v. Division of Social Services |
N.C. Appeals
Court Overturns Decision Denying Medicaid Coverage of Chemotherapy as
Treatment for Emergency Condition (2/17/04) |
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Soskin v. Reinertson | 10th Circuit Panel
Upholds Colorado's Authority to Terminate Medicaid for Thousands of Immigrants
(2/17/04) |
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ICHIA Provisions Stripped from Medicare Bill Signed
by President (12/18/03) |
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Scottsdale
Healthcare, Inc. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration |
"Emergency Medical Condition" Given Generous Interpretation
by Arizona Court (9/4/03) |
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Senate Rejects Effort to Revoke the
Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act (7/15/03) (posted under
"Congressional Developments") |
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Soskin v.Reinertson |
District Court Enjoins
Colorado's Termination of Immigrants' Medicaid Eligibility (4/8/03) |
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U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition Releases
Report on the Cost of Unreimbursed Hospital Care to Undocumented Persons
(11/22/02) |
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HHS Issues Final Regulations Granting SCHIP to
Fetuses (10/21/02) |
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HHS Issues Guidance on the Five-Year Bar in Medicaid
and SCHIP (10/21/02) |
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Federal Responsbility for Immigrant Health Act
Introduced (5/10/02) |
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HHS Proposes Rule Making Fetuses Eligible for
SCHIP (5/10/02) |
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New York Extends Immigrants' Eligibility for Health
Programs (10/8/01) |
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Interim Final SCHIP Regulations Issued; Two New
Provisions May Jeopardize Immigrants' Access (8/31/01) |
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Texas AG Issues Opinion That County Hospitals
Not Allowed to Serve "Not Qualified" Immigrants (8/31/01) |
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Aliessa et al. v. Novello |
N.Y. Law Restricting
Immigrants' Eligibility for State Medical Aid Found Unconstitutional
(6/29/01) |
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Lewis v. Grinker |
2d Circuit Rules That
States May Deny Prenatal Care to "Not Qualified" Immigrants (6/29/01) |
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"Healthy
Solutions" Initiative Launched, Bipartisan Proposals to Restore Benefits
Introduced (3/29/01) (posted under
"Congressional Developments") |
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House Version of Immigrant Children’s
and Pregnant Women’s Health Care Bill Introduced (7/26/00)
(posted under "Congressional Developments") |
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Lewis, et al. v. Grinker, et al. |
Lewis Judge Rules That Use of PRWORA Provision
to Deny Prenatal Care Violates Due Process (2/11/00) |
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HCFA Confirms Only
Applicants for Medicaid Need Provide an SSN or Disclose Immigration Status
(10/26/98) |
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Settlement Reached
in Medi-Cal "Debt" Reimbursement Case (9/16/98) |
