SNAPShots

SNAPShots

MACPAC Meets

Last week the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission met in Washington, D.C.  The agency performs policy and data analysis and offers recommendations to Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the states.
During two days of meetings, MACPAC commissioners received the following presentations:

  • Federal CHIP Funding Update: When Will States Exhaust Their Allotments?
  • Review of June Report Chapter: Program Integrity in Medicaid Managed Care
  • Review of June Report Chapter: Medicaid and the Opioid Epidemic
  • Medicare Savings Program: Eligible But Not Enrolled
  • Medicaid Reform: Implications of Proposed Legislation
  • Preliminary Findings From Evaluations of Medicaid Expansions Under Section 1115 Waivers
  • Potential Effects of Medicaid Financing Reforms on Other Health and Social Programs
  • Review of June Report Chapter: Analysis of Mandatory and Optional Populations and Benefits
  • Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Network Adequacy for Home and Community-Based Services
  • Update on MACPAC Work on Value-Based Payment and Delivery System Reform

For links to all of these publications and a transcript of the two-day meeting go here, to the MACPAC web site.

2017-05-05T06:00:59+00:00May 5th, 2017|Federal Medicaid issues|Comments Off on MACPAC Meets

CMS Urges Improvements in Care for Physically, Mentally Disabled

New guidance issued by the Centers for Medicaid Services outlines how states can make better use of home care in serving physically and mentally disabled Medicaid beneficiaries.
Those steps include establishing open registries of home care workers; establishing qualifications for such workers; and paying wages that will help foster continuity of care for the clients of those home care workers.
cmsIn making these recommendations, CMS seeks to make greater use of managed long-term services and supports and home- and community-based services when serving individuals who might otherwise need costly nursing home care.
Pennsylvania is in the process of launching a new such program, called Community HealthChoices, that will offer dually eligible Medicare/Medicaid seniors the option of receiving managed long-term services and supports instead of entering nursing homes.
Learn more about CMS’s recommendations and why it made them in this informational bulletin from CMS to state Medicaid directors.

2016-08-18T06:00:05+00:00August 18th, 2016|Pennsylvania Medicaid policy|Comments Off on CMS Urges Improvements in Care for Physically, Mentally Disabled
Go to Top