Name: A Lawyer's Guide to Children’s Medicaid and Managed Care
Start: 2025-08-28T10:15:00-0500
End: 2025-08-28T11:15:00-0500

Thursday August 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT

Room 408

Healthcare access plays an important role in a child’s over all wellbeing. Children who lack access to healthcare will have increased risk of poor health outcomes, developmental delays, and impact to their education. Programs like Children’s Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program also known as CHIP play such a huge role in ensuring that eligible children have access to proper healthcare coverage which leads to better developmental outcomes for their wellbeing. Furthermore, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) are responsible for approving or denying medical claims for Children Medicaid recipients and can potentially be a barrier to a child's access to medically necessary services. In this presentation we will discuss Children's Medicaid and CHIP eligibility requirements, and what advocates can do if an eligible child has been wrongfully denied for these benefits. Advocates will also learn how access to these benefits for low-income families is vital to a child's ability to have positive health outcomes and development into healthy young adults. Our panelists will discuss the importance of Managed Care's role in a child's ability to access medical services after a determination of eligibility, and what advocates can do ensure MCOs are not a barrier to an eligible child's access to medically necessary health services.

Speakers

Elizabeth Green

Staff Attorney, Lone Star Legal Aid

Elizabeth Green is a Staff Attorney at Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) located in Houston, Texas. Elizabeth joined Lone Star legal Aid, which provides free legal assistance for low-income individuals dealing with civil law issues throughout the state of Texas about a year ago. Lone Star... Read More →