Results of the 19th annual Medicaid Budget Survey were released Oct. 18, 2019 and examine changes taking place in Medicaid in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and HMA conducted the annual survey in partnership with the National Association of Medicaid Directors. Key findings of the survey include: Multiple states reported … Read More
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This report quantifies the economic impact of opioid use disorder (OUD) specific to the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program, which covers approximately 51.6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries. We find that the cost to Medicare for managing these newly diagnosed patients was $29,669 more per patient than the propensity-matched control patients without OUD in 2022. We thus … Read More
Residents in nursing facilities faced higher infection rates and worse overall care experiences during the COVID-19 public health emergency highlighting long-standing concerns about the quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing facility care, especially for residents of color. In a recent issue brief published by the Milbank Memorial Fund that HMA COO Chuck Milligan co-authored with Kate … Read More
Wendy Radunz is the Chief Executive Officer of Cirdan Health Systems and Consulting, an HMA Company. She is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She has more than 25 years of experience in health insurance. She has expertise in Medicare Part D and Medicare … Read More
Medicaid was designed to serve low-income and vulnerable individuals, but it operates differently in the U.S. territories than it does in the states. While the federal share varies based on per capita income for each state, federal funding for Medicaid in the territories is subject to a statutory cap and a fixed federal matching rate. … Read More
Rebecca Mendoza has more than 25 years of diverse program and project management experience and expertise in health policy interpretation and program design and implementation. A leader and facilitator, she has overseen contract management, eligibility and enrollment, call center and application processing operations, and marketing and community outreach. Before joining HMA, she served as a … Read More
CAR T therapies first entered the market in late 2018. These transformative treatments for certaintypes of cancer involve modifying a patient’s own cells to fight the cancer—producing a long term,potentially curative response. Initially, CAR T therapy was administered to patients in the inpatienthospital, where Medicare payments are bundled so that the hospital gets a single … Read More
Debbie Saxe is a seasoned healthcare leader with a vast amount of state policy, research, and operations experience across a wide variety of topics. After serving as a subcontractor, she officially joined Burn & Associates (B&A), now a division of HMA, in 2018. She spent more than two decades serving in various health policy and … Read More
With nearly 20 years of experience with rate-setting, policy review, financial analysis, and data mining, Steven Abele is a nimble healthcare finance expert. Before joining HMA, Steven worked as a consultant with Burns & Associates, Inc. and in other capacities supporting a variety of projects in for various Medicaid-related agencies in a number of states … Read More