Chapter 3 – Medicaid and CHIP
State-federal partnerships that provide health coverage for people with low incomes, children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children and disabled individuals.
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Moving Beyond COVID-19: Considerations for using PHE Flexibilities to Improve Person-Centered Care
This virtual public event will feature a diverse panel of experts to discuss considerations for using the public health emergency flexibilities to improve person-centered, equitable care for older adults.
What’s Coming in 2023? Health Policy Priorities for the New Year
This event will forecast potential health policy priorities for both states and the federal government and review major milestones from the past year and their potential impact on 2023.
Implications of the Midterm Elections for Health Care Policy
Panelists discussed upcoming priorities for the lame-duck session of the 117th Congress, implications for the 118th Congress, and priorities for the Biden Administration.
The Effects of Expiring Pandemic Relief Measures on Coverage and Affordability: A Future Outlook
This event outlined the various coverage-related elements at play over the next six to nine months, their tradeoffs, and how they may impact various stakeholders, including consumers, state leaders, and payers.
What’s Next in Home and Community-Based Services?
During this session, panelists provided an overview of home and community-based services, including populations receiving these services, current enrollment numbers, workforce challenges, benefits of HCBS, and barriers to caring for complex populations.
Understanding the Future of COVID-Related Medicare and Medicaid Flexibilities
This event helped the audience understand the current policy landscape shaping Medicare and Medicaid programs as well as principles of person- and community-centered care. Speakers discussed lessons learned from the PHE, including insights from recent research and on-the-ground experts, and highlighted policy levers available to state and federal policymakers to build upon these current flexibilities.
Health Policy Roundup: State Policy Analysis and Priorities
This briefing provided a round-up of state-level policies enacted during the past few years that are focused on cost containment, complex care, and drug pricing reform. Panelists overviewed health policies implemented and evaluated at the state level, synthesize major lessons and takeaways from these policies, and highlighted states or programs to watch in 2022.
Health Policy Roundup: Recent Trends in Coverage Enrollment and Affordability
This event highlighted current trends in enrollment, premiums, and out-of-pocket costs in private insurance markets, and presented challenges and opportunities in getting eligible consumers enrolled in appropriate coverage. Panelists also explored coverage affordability and enrollment levers, including potential policy actions at federal and state levels.
Policymaking to Support the Health of Native American People
In this briefing, experts overviewed demographics of the Native American population in the United States as well as the current policy and regulatory landscape that guides and directs Native American health care infrastructure.
Advancing Patient-Centered Cancer Care
This 3-hour summit convened and informed health policy and oncology research communities about critical issues related to patient-centered cancer care and offered lessons, strategies, and policy approaches for the short and long term.
A Conversation with Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health
During this exclusive on-the-record briefing for reporters, Admiral Rachel L. Levine, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provided some opening remarks and responded to audience questions.
Policy Options to Advance Mental Health Care During Pregnancy
This briefing will examine the difference between perinatal health and perinatal mental health and their intrinsic relationship. Panelists will delve into factors contributing to perinatal health and mental health as well as policy levers and promising solutions available to stakeholders to reduce and prevent mental health symptoms and mood disorders.
A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Fowler of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provided some opening remarks and responded to audience questions.
Medicare Payment Reform: Lessons Learned and Considerations for the Future
This briefing provided background on Medicare payment reform, including new value-based models that have evolved over the past decade.
Closing the Coverage Coordination Gap for Dual Eligibles
This briefing provided a brief landscape of the dual eligible population and the challenges they face when seeking comprehensive coverage and care. Attendees learned about the spectrum of integration of the Medicare and Medicaid programs on behalf of this population, and defined what success looks like in an integrated plan.
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Basics of Budget Reconciliation and the Connection to Health Policy
This briefing provided a high-level overview of the budget reconciliation process and also discussed potential applications of reconciliation to address national economic and health policy concerns of the 117th Congress and the new administration.
COVID-19 Webinar Series Session 17 – The Role of Medicaid
This webinar will explain the role of Medicaid in the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists will discuss financing challenges of the Medicaid program—the nation’s health care safety net—as more people become eligible for Medicaid coverage and demand for health services shifts.
Protected: 2020 Health Policy Academy for Staff
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Fall 2019 Legislative and Regulatory Outlook
During this webinar, analysts discussed the outstanding legislative and regulatory activities that Congress and the administration are likely to pursue before the end of the year.
Addressing the Drivers of Maternal Mortality
This briefing identified policies to prevent pregnancy-related deaths and address the forces resulting in the disproportionate maternal health outcomes. Panelists discussed policy options that support interventions among providers and public health entities to address the clinical and social drivers of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
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Flexibility and Innovation in Medicaid
Potential Midterm Election Implications for Health Care
This webinar examined the role of health care in the upcoming elections and the potential health policy implications for Congress, the administration, and state governments.
Improving Care for Children with Complex Medical Needs
During this briefing, panelists described factors that impact the quality, affordability, and accessibility of care for children with complex medical needs.
Health Care in the Courts
This webinar examined the landscape of impending health policy legal decisions, including constitutional challenges to the ACA, disputes surrounding risk corridor programs, challenges to Medicaid program work requirements, and disputes around Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives.
Using State Flexibility to Improve Medicaid Long Term Services and Supports
The purpose of this briefing was to highlight emerging best practices in Medicaid LTSS program design that promote high-quality, cost-effective, person-centered care.
Healthy Aging and Immunizations
This purpose of this briefing was to review the value of immunizations for aging adults, highlight factors that impact access to immunizations, and provide a review of coverage for adult vaccines under public and private insurance.
Navigating Next Steps on Payment Reform
This briefing provided an update on the overall state of play with payment reform, and the effort to move away from fee for service and toward value-based payment. Panelists discussed the interplay between the public and private sectors, and, given likely future directions for the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, highlighted areas where the private sector may be best positioned to lead. Panelists shared what this means for future policy options and needs.