Action Alert
Policy & Advocacy
Federal
- IHS Appropriations/Equitable Funding for CA (Facilities, PRC, Information Technology, Youth Care, Diabetes, Behavioral Health, Elder Care, Domestic Violence Prevention, and all other IHS line items)
- Protect Tribal Sovereignty/Protections for Tribal Organizations
- Other U.S. Agency Appropriations/Equitable Funding for CA Area (Housing, Veterans, Behavioral Health, Elder Care, Youth Care, and all other line items)
- Medicaid/Medicare Policy
- Land and Cultural Rights
- Other Priorities: Voting Rights
State
- Restore $6.4 Million Indian Health Program
- Medi-Cal/Managed Care/Covered California/Qualified Health (QHP) Issues (Credentialing, Contracting, seek State Plan Amendment to add Tribal FQHC designation and alternative payment methodology of OMB Rate, incorporate Traditional Health, Youth Engagement)
- Other Priorities: Protect Tribal Sovereignty Consultation
- Environmental Health/Natural Resources (water quality, air quality)
- Other Priorities: Diabetes Services (Dialysis) – includes “Diabetes Program, Diabetes Care, and Diabetes Services”
- Increase California Work Opportunity & Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Indian Health Clinic Program Funding
- Combat Human Trafficking of AIANs
- Bring Dental Health Aide Therapy (DHAT) to California
- Other Priorities: Voting Rights
CMS Data Reports
- Health Care Coverage and Income of American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Comparative Analysis of 33 states with Indian Health Service Funded Programs
- Integrating Medicaid and Indian Health Service Data, 2011
- Uninsured American Indians and Alaska Natives with Incomes 133% to 300% of Poverty: Data for Health Insurance Exchange Outreach
- American Indian and Alaska Native Medicaid & CHIP Program and Policy Data Summary Report
- American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare Program and Policy Data Summary Report
- American Indians and Alaska Natives: Medicaid State Data Collection
- Gaps and Strategies to improve American Indian and Alaska Native Data for Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP
Other
Other priorities, in order of importance, include protecting Tribal sovereignty, land and cultural rights, environmental issues that impact health, including water, and traditional hunting and fishing rights.