This webinar was held on April 17, 2020. Medicaid-covered home and community-based services (HCBS) are critical to the health and well-being of millions of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and/or behavioral health conditions. In response to COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided state Medicaid programs with increased … Read More
This webinar was held on May 18, 2020. Even as behavioral health providers work tirelessly to respond to COVID-19, the most forward-looking organizations also recognize that the pandemic has laid bare the need to develop a wide variety of short- and long-term solutions to ongoing and emergent needs. The most pressing of these needs concern … Read More
This webinar was held on August 31, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has created greater impetus for the growth of home-based care alternatives to hospital and institutional care. In this webinar, HMA experts provided a national overview of the trend toward home-based care and highlighted innovations in state policies, payer programs, clinical models, and payment models. … Read More
On August 18, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a roadmap to support healthcare providers with preparing for the eventual end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration. CMS also published a series of fact sheets summarizing the status of Medicare Blanket waivers and flexibilities by provider type as well as … Read More
Workforce HMA’s approach to providing ACOs and Community Partners (CPs) with technical assistance and training programs in the Workforce domain is grounded in the extensive operational and leadership experience of our consultants across the healthcare delivery system. We know the technical and cultural challenges to system reform and team-based care because we have built teams, … Read More
This week, our In Focus section reviews two Medicaid managed care requests for proposals (RFPs) released on January 10, 2020. The District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) issued an RFP for the DC Healthy Families Program (DCHFP); the District of Columbia Healthcare Alliance Program (Alliance); and the Immigrant Children’s Program (ICP) as … Read More
2019 HMA Conference Presentations Pre-Conference Sessions “Medicaid 101: Program Basics, Key Variations and Behavioral Health” Monday, September 9, 2019 Keynote Address – “Medicaid and the Future of Health Care” Alan Weil, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs State Medicaid Director Keynote Q&A Session – “Opportunities and Pitfalls of Medicaid Innovation at the State Level” Mari Cantwell, Chief Deputy … Read More