This webinar discusses utilizing a "no wrong door" approach to close gaps on substance-use treatment for Medicaid enrollees.
This webinar shares how state leaders are tackling behavioral health challenges and using Medicaid to improve high quality care in their state.
State Health & Value Strategies hosted a webinar to discuss key considerations for states along with an overview of the recent CMS-proposed regulation.
This webinar explores policy considerations and opportunities to achieve reproductive health equity.
This presentation explores how increased transparency in healthcare can be leveraged by consumers, employers, researchers, and states in support of cost-containment efforts.
This webinar highlights state approaches addressing health-related social needs (HRSN) in Medicaid managed care programs, followed by a discussion with state Medicaid officials.
This webinar gathered Medicaid stakeholders from communities and state agencies to discuss practical steps to address health literacy through improved communications, national cultural and language access standards (such as CLAS), and community engagement.
This webinar reviews how state health agencies can implement a policy development guide with examples from states that have successfully implemented the guide.
In this webinar, experts provide a detailed overview of CMS' guidance in the State Health Official (SHO) letter offering states the option to provide full-scope Medicaid and CHIP services to justice-involved eligible children and youth.
During the webinar, experts reviewed the new OMB standards for race and ethnicity data collection, described the history of federally-defined race and ethnicity data collection standards, and highlighted the motivations for the revisions.
State Health and Value Strategies will host a webinar on July 15, during which experts will review the new OMB standards for race and ethnicity data collection, describe the history of federally-defined race and ethnicity data collection standards, and highlight the motivations for the revisions.
Part Three in this series of webinars provides a detailed overview of provisions in the Access Rule that aim to enhance access to HCBS, standardize quality measures and reporting requirements, and help address long-standing shortages in the direct care workforce.
During this webinar, experts from Manatt Health provided an overview of the provisions in both rules regarding access monitoring, enrollee engagement, provider payment transparency, and HCBS.
During this webinar, experts from Manatt Health reviewed key Medicaid and CHIP provisions in the final rule and discussed considerations for state policymakers.
This webinar explored successful practices for data coordination between SNAP and Medicaid agencies gleaned from a 50-state survey and three state case studies.
This webinar explores successful practices for data coordination between SNAP and Medicaid.
This webinar shares how health agencies can support HAI/AR staff recruitment and retention.
This webinar explores a new opportunity to improve access to care and services for people returning to the community from state prisons, county jails, and youth correctional facilities.
This webinar highlights how Denver Health, a health system in Colorado, is implementing a trauma-and resilience-informed approach into organizational policy and practice, while also focusing on addressing systemic racism and biases.
This webinar highlights promising strategies for inviting youth perspectives to inform pediatric practice transformation efforts.
This webinar discusses opportunities to achieve engagement and trust between safety-net health systems and communities.
This webinar highlights the importance of including fathers in patient and family engagement to improve pediatric care.
This webinar recording explores innovations in recruitment, training, and retention that can lead to a more representative and supported pediatric workforce.
This webinar highlights findings from a Center for Health Care Strategies report on early lessons for using PBP models in Medicaid.
In this webinar, experts from Bailit Health reviewed a new resource, Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care, which describes approaches to require and/or incentivize Medicaid plans to address health-related social needs.
This webinar reviews COVID-19 flexibilities within Medicaid and what lies ahead in returning to normal eligibility and enrollment processes.
This web series spotlights new voices and ideas in health services research. In this video, Dr. Monica McLemore, nurse-scientist and clinician of 28 years talks about using research to address racism, funding and implementation, and her hopes for the future of HSR and nursing sciences.
This webinar features SHADAC director Lynn Blewett presenting on "State-Level Data Collaborations and Opportunities to Improve the Sustainability of Their Efforts."
The webinar aimed to bring together those in states who have implemented social risk factor screening measures for incentive use in managed care contracts.
This resource page recaps the Center for Health Care Strategies' recent webinar highlighting two California-based, cross-sector initiatives focused on improving healthcare for people experiencing homelessness by meeting the population where they are.
This video discusses the 2021 release of the National Health Security Preparedness Index.
This webinar and accompanying presentation examine the challenges and solutions to ensure families have adequate nutrition during the pandemic and beyond through various governmental food programs.
This webinar provide an overview of strategies for states seeking to ensure that eligible enrollees are able to keep or transition to new affordable health coverage when the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement ends.
This webinar reviewed steps states can take to integrate health equity into their Medicaid managed care programs.
This video features NSHPI director Glen Mays and board member Suzet McKinney discussing ways to improve collaboration between public health and medical care, strategies to increase the nation's healthcare service capacity, ways to address the healthcare inequities that COVID-19 has exposed, and much more.
This event examines the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative and the Urban Institute's insights from published and upcoming research on how policymakers, researchers, community members, and funders can work together to support the stabilization of renters in the US during and beyond the pandemic.
This recording features highlights from NASHP's 34th Annual Conference.
This webinar discusses the research on how Medicaid saves lives, reduces costs, and helps eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
This webinar shared findings from a published Manatt Health issue brief for SHVS on Medicaid’s role in combating the maternal mortality crisis.
This webinar, cosponsored by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers’ National Center for Complex Health & Social Needs, will feature first-hand experiences and reflections from the field on recent innovations in complex care measurement.
This webinar, hosted by the Center for Health Care Strategies with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will explore the need to transform child health care from three unique perspectives — a pediatrician, a family advocate, and a children’s health clinic director.
This presentation examines the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on historically under-served populations and strategies to increase Medicaid outreach and enrollment within these communities.
This webinar will provide an overview of the request for applications for NASHP’s upcoming State Policy Academy on Rural Mental Health Crisis Services, which will help states strengthen policies and strategies that support development, coordination, and delivery of mental health crisis services in rural areas.
This webinar explores state strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccine confidence and reach more communities in an equitable and efficient manner.
This podcast features Lynnette Rhodes, executive director of medical assistance plans at the Georgia Department of Community Health, and Cindy Beane, commissioner at the West Virginia Bureau for Medical Services, discussing leadership challenges and successes they have faced in developing equitable vaccine distribution strategies and the status of their respective states’ vaccine rollout.
This webinar features early childhood and Medicaid experts highlighting efforts used to support young children with development and learning needs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar is the second in a three-part webinar series focusing on opportunities for early childhood and Medicaid programs to better support families with young children in the current and post-pandemic environment.
This presentation outlines the key provisions of the Medicaid program.
This webinar explores practical strategies to assess and address hunger needs faced by families during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, including leveraging early childhood systems and the Help Me Grow system model to address child food insecurity.
This webinar offers insights and solutions for health care organizations and government entities to build effective partnerships with the individuals and communities they serve to better address their health and social needs.
This webinar addresses key provisions of the American Rescue Plan package, the $1.9 trillion budget reconciliation package signed into law by President Biden on March 11.
This webinar features discussions on how states can use performance rates and disparities analyses from Medicaid managed care programs in other states to determine where disparities are likely to exist in their own state and develop interventions.
In this video, speakers from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Health Security Preparedness Index (NHSPI) discuss ways NHSPI can be used to guide change, the role geographic differences play in preparedness levels, how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed health inequities, and much more.
This webinar features experts reviewing the provisions of the No Surprises Act and implications for states, providing an overview of the next steps for implementing the federal balance billing protections and what the law will mean for state-level protections.
This tool helps states gather detailed information from hospitals about their community benefit expenditures and activities during the pandemic.
This podcast explores strategies public-sector leaders have implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This map current state activity related the Affordable Care Act’s Section 1332 waivers.
This podcast episode examines how good public administration works applies in practice, featuring the experiences of two Medicaid directors.
This guide provides answers to frequently asked questions about selecting and using health insurance coverage and applying for financial help for 2021's open enrollment period.
This podcast episode focuses on how vision and purpose, communication, planning for action, and balancing political and strategic agility apply in practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar explores the Buying Value suite of resources to support states' use of performance measures as they assess and improve value with managed care plans and accountable provider entities.
This webinar features experts reviewing examples of specific strategies states implemented between April and August 2020 to increase payments to providers in financial distress as a result of decreased health care utilization.
This webinar details how three provider organizations are using population health management approaches to care for people with complex needs amid COVID-19.
This webinar walks through tools states can use to increase payments to providers through both fee-for-service and Medicaid managed care, despite COVID-19 driven changes to utilization.
Two webinars on open enrollment period 2021 explore COVID-19 implications and effective strategies to consider as states design their outreach and education campaigns in a shifting health care environment.
This webinar highlighted how states should adapt their strategies during COVID-19 as they plan their open enrollment outreach and education campaigns, and how to ground these efforts in terms of audience targeting and messaging.
In this webinar, experts present key findings from a new COVID-19 state resource guide on federal and state Medicaid flexibilities and how they are being deployed to help ensure access to long-term services and supports.
In this webinar, experts reviewed the current telehealth policy landscape and considerations for states as they design their post-apex telehealth policies.
This webinar presented results from a financial model examining the Medicaid fiscal implications of the interaction between the COVID-19 pandemic, the emerging economic downturn, and recent policy changes.
This webinar reviews potential information technology (IT) investments in responding to COVID-19 and strategies for states to support these investments to secure current and potential IT investments that enable ongoing Medicaid program operations and advance health information exchange.
This webinar discussed the models that have been published of where individuals are expected to gain Medicaid and Marketplace coverage over the next 18 months.
This webinar reported on how states are tracking the disproportionate impact of the disease on vulnerable populations and provided a framework for states to examine their COVID-19 response efforts to yield better outcomes for such populations.
In this webinar, experts review strategies states can use to manage and process an increased number of Medicaid applications, and the federal authorities that permit states to do so.
In this webinar, experts from Manatt Health and Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms summarize recent federal legislation and guidance related to COVID-19.
This webinar discuses the impact of COVID-19 on Medicaid Managed Care Performance Incentives.
This webinar highlights funding opportunities and key provisions relevant to states included in the CARES Act.
This webinar walks through tools states can use to increase payments to providers through both fee-for-service and Medicaid managed care, despite COVID-19 driven changes to utilization. An accompanying toolkit is included that identifies the immediately available tools for states.
In this webinar, experts explore the key health care provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the implications for states.
This report reviews the key features of the proposed capped funding demonstrations and highlights the considerations for states. On January 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a State Medicaid Director Letter (SMDL) inviting states to apply for Section 1115 demonstration projects that would impose caps on federal Medicaid funding for the adult expansion and some other adult populations in exchange for new programmatic flexibility.
This webinar explores how two health care innovators are engaging communities and using consumer feedback to rethink how services are designed and delivered.
This webinar reviewed the Department of Homeland Security's final version of its public charge rule, highlighted changes from the proposed rule, and explored the rule’s potential impacts on consumers, states and providers.
This short video explains the difference between Medicaid and Medicare.
This short video explains how Medicaid has expanded its coverage to cover roughly 1 in 5 Americans.
This short video explains the effect of Medicaid on children's health.
This webinar highlights how two providers operating in vastly different settings have incorporated a trauma-informed approach to care into their day-to-day practices for treating substance use disorder.
The webinar highlights six key questions that state policymakers need to consider when choosing a buy-in model, designing its features, and introducing a Medicaid buy-in program.
This webinar explored how several states are using their multi-payer claims databases, including how they are employing claims databases to enhance the value of care and lessons learned for others.
This webinar by SHADAC researchers examines new measures and highlights how the estimates can be used to explore disparities between states and among sub-populations.
This webinar examines the complexities of state Medicaid oversight of the pharmacy benefit in the managed care environment.
This webinar walked through key components of the proposed annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020, and discussed potential state considerations for states.
This webinar discusses state considerations for developing a Medicaid buy-in proposal, as well as evolving models.
This webinar discusses the implications of the proposed regulations easing the rules governing health reimbursement arrangements (HRA) and other account-based, tax-preferred health care benefits; and possible state responses.
The Senate passed H.R. 6, The Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (the “SUPPORT Act”) on October 3, 2018. This reviews major health provisions of the new law and implications for states.
This webinar featured speakers from AccessHealth Spartanburg in South Carolina and Petaluma Health Center in Northern California who shared strategies for addressing social determinants of health.
This webinar featured the use of admissions, discharge, and transfer (ADT) data feeds to coordinate care for patients with behavioral health and other complex care issues in Tennessee and Washington. It provided lessons learned, including operational and financing strategies, linkages to quality metrics and outcomes, and alignment with other statewide payment and delivery system efforts.
This webinar is first in a two-part series exploring how providers are building on existing complex care program models to extend beyond the walls of a health system.
This webinar reviews the Stewart v. Azar decision and potential implications for states with approved, pending or planned Medicaid waivers that include work/community engagement requirements. The court’s findings may shape what analysis will be necessary to demonstrate that future waivers advance the Medicaid statute's objectives.
This webinar provided an overview of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 6|18 Initiative and highlighted recent accomplishments from participating Medicaid-public health teams. The CDC 6|18 Initiative is a framework to guide Medicaid-public health collaboration.
Webinar discusses the status of state efforts to secure waivers to use federal Medicaid funding to provide care in Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD), including the requirements states must meet to secure an IMD waiver; the status of requests and approvals; and issues and opportunities arising as states pursue and increasingly implement the IMD waiver.
The Trump Administration is expanding the availability of alternatives to Affordable Care Act-compliant health insurance. Rules to expand association health plans and short-term limited duration health plans are imminent. This webinar explores what options states have to respond to these developments, featuring experts from Georgetown University’s Center for Health Insurance Reform.
This webinar untangles HHS's annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters and its many implications for states. The rule is a collection of policies governing the ACA’s marketplaces, insurance reforms, and premium stabilization programs. Speakers include Sabrina Corlette and Justin Giovannelli from Georgetown’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Joel Ario from Manatt Health, and Jason Levitis.
On January 11, CMS released a State Medicaid Director letter providing guidance for states seeking 1115 waivers that condition Medicaid eligibility on work and community engagement, quickly followed by approval of Kentucky’s 1115 waivers that include these requirements. In this webinar, State Health and Value Strategies and Manatt Health review the new guidance, including key design parameters, budget neutrality requirements, and monitoring and evaluation criteria.
With effective repeal of the federal individual insurance mandate scheduled for 2019, many state policymakers are exploring ways to stabilize their insurance markets, including creating a state-based mandate similar to one in Massachusetts. This webinar includes a deep dive into Massachusetts’ mandate, and features a Maryland proposal to create an auto-enrollment process for individuals through its marketplace.
On January 11, 2018, CMS released guidance for states seeking 1115 waivers that condition Medicaid eligibility on work and community engagement, quickly followed by approval of Kentucky’s 1115 waivers that include these requirements. Both the new guidance and recent waiver approval represent a significant departure from past Administrations’ positions. This webinar reviews the new guidance and discusses state legal, policy, and operational considerations.
RWJF’s SHVS together with experts from Manatt Health, host this webinar that highlights and defines potential policy options, including the “Medicaid Buy-in,” that states may consider to leverage Medicaid to achieve their goals with respect to coverage availability and affordability. Conditions that make each option more or less favorable for a state, and implementation issues or other considerations in play for states are discussed.
This webinar features the Urban Institute's Dr. Fred Blavin, whose SHARE-funded research asks how medical spending burdens for near-poor families in non-expansion states would change if the states were to expand Medicaid.
The research included in this panel illustrates both the intended and unintended consequences of state policy decisions on a range of health systems outcomes and highlights the necessity of access to different types of federal surveys for the purposes of health policy evaluation. Federal survey data is especially critical when analyzing variation between states, as when comparing outcomes by Medicaid expansion status. As policy flexibility for states continues to grow, this ability to compare states to one another will continue to be essential.
This webinar profiles Louisiana’s Permanent Supportive Housing program and Virginia’s Children’s Services Act, and examines their use of blended or braided funding to help meet the health-related social needs of vulnerable low-income populations.
Watch: Webinar discussing the impact of ACA implementation in Kentucky.
The “Buying Value Measure Selection Tool” was developed to assist state agencies, private purchasers and other stakeholders in creating aligned measure sets, and was first released in 2014. This webinar explains this tool and recent updates for state officials and other stakeholders involved in developing and maintaining aligned quality measure sets for health care entities and programs including for health plans, accountable care organizations, and patient-centered medical homes. This webinar presents strategies for selecting measures and reveals an updated version of the tool.
Increasingly, health departments are serving as leaders in communities to address the root causes of health inequities. This requires changing systems and policies, and working with non-traditional partners to ensure that all people have the opportunity to attain their highest level of health. On December 12, 2016, PHNCI explored the stories of two health departments working to transform communities such that zip codes do not dictate health outcomes.
In order to assist states in the facilitation of Medicaid enrollment and renewal for eligible SNAP participants, this webinar presents some of the necessary considerations for leveraging these data for enrollment purposes.
