Call to Action! Take Action To Restore Full Coverage for MassHealth Adult Dental Services November 16, 2020 Facebook Twitter  In 2010, state budget shortfalls resulted in the limiting of MassHealth adult dental coverage to only cleanings and extractions. This negatively impacted already underserved low income communities and communities of color that faced multiple barriers to accessing timely and affordable dental care. Over the past ten years, MassHealth coverage for adult dental services have been incrementally restored, including fillings, dent ..read more

HCFA’s First Health Justice Academy: Building Power In Our Communities September 29, 2020 Facebook Twitter  In July, Health Care For All completed the summer session of “The Health Justice Academy: Building Health Care Power in Our Communities,” a renewed iteration of the Health Care Democracy School.    The Health Justice Academy is a free advocacy training webinar presented as virtual modules aiming at providing tools to navigate the Massachusetts health care system and to advocate for health care rights and health equity in the midst of the COVI ..read more

Health Care For All and MassHealth Partner to Present a Virtual "Spotlight" Event on Oral Health Integration September 24, 2020 Facebook Twitter  Last Wednesday, September 16, Health Care For All (HCFA), in partnership with MassHealth presented the Statewide Investments “Spotlight” Virtual Pop-Up Event on Oral Health Integration. Folks from several MassHealth Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Community Partners (CPs) as well as health care providers from across Massachusetts chose to spend their morning learning about oral health integration from a panel of experts from the ..read more

Call to Action! Take Action To Ensure Access to Medications During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Recession July 27, 2020 Facebook Twitter  Join Health Care For All in urging state representatives to ensure access to chronic disease and COVID-19 medications during the COVID-19 pandemic - please call and email your state representative TODAY and ask them to support and co-sponsor Representative Barber's COVID Medication Access Amendment #11 to House Bill 4888, an "Act to Promote Resilience in our Health Care System".    The COVID-19 pandemic has made clearer the i ..read more

"The Doctor Will See You Again" June 9, 2020 Facebook Twitter  One of the important public health responses to COVID-19 here in Massachusetts and around the country was to keep people at home. That meant many doctor’s offices and other health care providers were limited to seeing only the most urgent cases in-person in their offices. Hospitals also limited non-urgent or elective surgeries and procedures to convert units and other resources to treating COVID-19 patients. These changes helped ensure our health care providers had the ability to respond to the pandemic and protected aga ..read more

The Importance of the Census During the COVID-19 Outbreak April 1, 2020 Facebook Twitter  Encouraging 327.2 million people to carry out even a single task is a seemingly impossible goal––despite being required by law, the challenge of ensuring that everyone in the United States completes the Census every ten years is made difficult by much more than the sheer number of people it must reach. Even with the best of intentions, Americans can be forgetful, busy, and stressed over other parts of their life that demand precedence. There are also those who are less willing, with many undocumented im ..read more

The Coronavirus is among us and we all have a responsibility to do our part to stop it or at least to slow it down March 19, 2020 Facebook Twitter  We are faced with a once in a century public health crisis that has bought society to a halt, that threatens to overwhelm health systems and that may yet bring economies to their knees. Over the last few weeks, the unthinkable - that a virus affecting one city in one country would have a similar impact everywhere else in the world -- became thinkable and now inevitable.  As cases of Coronavirus infection rise exponentially and testing remains th ..read more

Due to COVID-19, HCFA's physical office is closed, but are we open for business: March 13, 2020 Facebook Twitter  Due to the situation created by COVID-19 (also known as the Coronavirus) and following guidance from the Baker Administration, HCFA's physical office will be closed from Monday, March 16, 2020 until further notice but the entire staff will be working remotely. We will be available during regular hours via email and phone and will be using video-conferencing capabilities when appropriate. We are monitoring the situation and we will resume our regular operations at One Federal Stre ..read more

Consumer Assistance Available after Open Enrollment January 23, 2020 Facebook Twitter  The Massachusetts Health Connector Open Enrollment period officially closes on January 23, 2020. However, this does not mean enrollment is “closed” for everyone. The Open Enrollment period is the annual time for Health Connector members to change their plan for any reason, and for new applicants to shop for health insurance without a “qualifying life event.” So what happens on Health Care For All’s HelpLine and with all the enrollment assisters across the state on January 24th? The answer is (drum roll, pl ..read more

New Report Highlights Best Practices to Support Immigrant Communities Who Need Access to Health Care and other Benefits January 23, 2020 Facebook Twitter  Last week, the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign released the report, Navigating Public Charge: Best Practices in Community Based Organizations to Mitigate the Harm for the Immigrant Community, a compilation of the best practices for community based organizations (CBOs) to reduce the risk posed by the current environment to immigrant communities. The results were gathered in collaboration with immigrant-serving organizations fr ..read more