MODEL BENEFICIARY CREDITABLE COVERAGE DISCLOSURE NOTICE

August 22, 2005 Definitions of Disability, Current Federal Standards and Implications of Reform for Medical CoverageThis Resource Paper examines the concept of disability across various fields of public policy and assesses the extent to which the Medicaid definition--borrowed from Social Security Act ('SSA') income replacement programs--merits reexamination in light of the evolution in thinking on matters of public policy and persons with disabilities. While Medicaid's definition might possibly continue to have some validity in the context of income replacement for adults (or in the case of children, their families and caregivers) whose disabilities are so extensive as . . .