LINKS

Medical Information

-   Dr. Huggie Bear   -
Family Doctor at the click of a mouse - common sense medical answers & solutions to life’s little ups and downs, from Dr. Frank Barnhill, Board Certified Family Physician.

-   Medicaid   -
Arc of the United States on Medicaid
Fact sheet on Medicaid programs offered by 50 states & D.C.

|Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

|Disability Determination Bureau - Wisconsin
Explains medical assistance programs available to people who are determined to have a disability and how the determination is made.

Ten Questions on the Role of Medicaid
Report & statistics on rapid increase in demand for long-term care

Medicaid Benefits Database
Searchable by Medicaid benefit and by state.

Medicaid formula
Medicaid funding formula related to differences in funding ability amongst states.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-620
|http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d03620high.pdf

|Medicaid Information
Basic to advanced information on Medicaid, primary public source of funding for health &long-term services & supports for people with disabilities of all ages.

Medicaid Waivers
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicaid/waivers/
|http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/specialed/resource/autism/fact.pdf

-   No Easy Answers   -
WCDD publication includes framework for how to think about medications.

-   Parents’ Guide to Research   -
Published by the Organization for Autism Research

-   Parent's Guide To Doctors, Disabilities, And The Family   -

-   Prescription drug information   -

-   TheDesk   -
Resource for navigating Medicaid, created by advocates and consumers, to make using the Medicaid system easier. Project of National Significance of the Administration on DD. Includes Wisconsin.