MAI
Limited one-time or short-term payments to assist clients with an emergent need for paying for essential utilities, housing, food (including groceries, and food vouchers), transportation, and medication.
What is Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA)?
A range of client-centered activities focused on improving health outcomes in support of the HIV care continuum. Activities may be prescribed by an interdisciplinary team that includes other specialty care providers.
What is Medical Case Management?
Financial assistance for eligible individuals living with HIV to maintain continuity of health insurance or receive medical and pharmacy benefits under a health care coverage program. For purposes of this service category, health insurance also includes standalone dental insurance.
What is Health Insurance Premium and Cost Sharing?
Guidance and assistance in accessing medical, social, community, legal, financial, and other needed services. These services also include assisting eligible clients to obtain access to other public and private programs for which they may be eligible.
What are Non-Medical Case Management Services?
Interpretation and translation services, both oral and written, to eligible clients and provided by qualified providers as a component of HIV service delivery between the healthcare provider and the client.
What are Linguistic Services?
Group or individual support and counseling to assist eligible PLWH to address behavioral and physical health concerns. Services include bereavement counseling, child abuse and neglect counseling, HIV support groups, nutrition counseling provided by a non-registered dietitian, and pastoral care.
Boston EMA Addendum: Services funded under this category include peer support, where the person providing the psychosocial support is a person infected with HIV and of the client’s self-identified community.
What are Psychosocial Support Services?
Diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic services provided by a dental health care professional licensed to provide health care in the State or jurisdiction, including general dental practitioners, dental specialists, and dental hygienists, as well as licensed and trained dental assistants.
What is Oral Health Care?
Local pharmacy assistance programs implemented by Part A or B grantees to provide medications when an ADAP has a restricted formulary, waiting list and/or restricted financial eligibility criteria.
What is AIDS Pharmaceutical Assistance?
Limited one-time or short-term payments to assist clients with an emergent need for paying for essential utilities, housing, food (including groceries, and food vouchers), transportation, and medication.
What is Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA)?
Intermittent services for the children living in the household of HIV-infected clients for the purpose of enabling clients to attend medical visits, related appointments, and/or RWHAP-related meetings, groups, or training sessions.
What are Child Care Services?
Interpretation and translation services, both oral and written, to eligible clients. These services must be provided by qualified providers as a component of HIV service delivery between the healthcare provider and the client. These services facilitate communication between the provider and client and/or support delivery of services.
What are Linguistic Services?
Nutrition assessments and screening, dietary/nutritional evaluation, food and/or nutritional supplements provided per medical provider’s recommendation, and nutrition education and/or counseling provided by a licensed registered dietitian outside of an outpatient/ambulatory medical visit.
What is Medical Nutrition Therapy?
Outpatient psychological and psychiatric screening, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and counseling services based on a treatment plan, conducted in an outpatient group or individual session, and provided by a licensed professional, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers.
What are Mental Health Services?
The provision of actual food items, hot meals, or a voucher program to purchase food. This also includes the provision of essential non-food items that are limited to personal hygiene products, household cleaning supplies, water filtration/purification systems in communities where water safety issues exist.
What are Food Bank/Home-Delivered Meals?
The provision of services for the treatment of drug or alcohol use disorders in a residential setting to include screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorder.
What are Substance Abuse Services (Residential)?
Note - Residential services are considered a Support whereas Outpatient services are considered Core.
Services provided to and/or on behalf of the individual living with HIV and involving legal matters related to or arising from their HIV disease, including assistance with public benefits, interventions necessary to ensure access to eligible benefits, including discrimination or breach of confidentiality litigation as it relates to services eligible for funding under the RWHAP.
What are Legal Services?
A state-administered program authorized under Part B of the Ryan White Program to provide FDA-approved medications to low-income clients living with HIV who have limited or no health care coverage.
What is ADAP/HDAP?
Diagnostic and therapeutic services provided directly to a client by a licensed healthcare provider in an outpatient medical setting including clinics, medical offices, and mobile vans where clients do not stay overnight.
What are Outpatient Ambulatory Services?
The provision of education to clients living with HIV about HIV transmission and how to reduce the risk of HIV transmission, including sharing information about medical and psychosocial support services and counseling with clients to improve their health status.
What is Health Education/Risk Reduction?
Provided by a licensed or authorized professional in accordance with an individualized plan of care intended to improve or maintain a client’s quality of life and optimal capacity for self-care. These include physical and occupational therapy.
Medical Case Management, Non-Medical Case Management and Emergency Financial Assistance
What are the 3 services funded by both Part A and MAI funds?
Services funded under this category also include education for, outreach to, and recruitment of dental providers.
What is the Boston EMA Addendum for Oral Health Care?
Outpatient services for the treatment for a person with drug or alcohol use disorder including screening, assessment, diagnosis, and/or treatment.
What are Substance Abuse Services (Outpatient)?
Note - Outpatient services are considered a Core whereas residential services are considered a Support.
Nonemergency transportation services that enables an eligible client to access or be retained in core medical and support services.
What are Medical Transportation Services?
The act of directing a client to needed core medical or support services in person or through telephone, written, or other type of communication.
What are Referral for Health Care and Support Services?