HMA Webinar Examines What’s Next for Medicaid After a Historic 2014

Medicaid in an Era of Health and Delivery

System Reform

Webinar

Friday, Nov. 7, 2014

2 p.m. ET

The year 2014 has been nothing short of historic for Medicaid. Grabbing the headlines has been the record enrollment growth under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which offers states the option of expanding eligibility to childless adults for the first time ever. But there’s much more to the story than that.

Medicaid is in the process of transforming itself from a program that simply pays medical bills to one that focuses on value, high quality, care coordination and health outcomes. While the majority of states have opted to expand Medicaid under the ACA, even more have implemented payment and delivery system reforms including medical homes, Accountable Care Organizations, medical and behavioral health integration efforts, and greater reliance on managed care for traditional Medicaid enrollees as well as dual eligibles, long-term care recipients and people with chronic illnesses.

Capturing the scope of these dramatic changes is the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 14th annual 50-state Medicaid budget survey: Medicaid in an Era of Health and Delivery System Reform, conducted with Health Management Associates and with the cooperation of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. During this webinar, co-authors Vern Smith, Kathy Gifford and Eileen Ellis will highlight the survey’s findings and provide perspective on what it all means for the future of Medicaid.

During this webinar you will:

• Understand the impact of enrollment growth on federal and state Medicaid spending trends.
• Learn what states are implementing or expanding initiatives to integrate medical and behavioral care in their Medicaid programs and to move aged, blind and disabled (ABD) and long-term care (LTC) members into managed care.
• Hear whether states will continue enhanced payments to primary care physicians after enhanced federal funding to cover the increased rates dries up at the end of 2014.
• Find out about other current trends in the use of traditional policy levers for controlling Medicaid costs, including changes to provider payment rates, benefits, and cost sharing.
• Examine state efforts to reform delivery systems and to institute value-based purchasing strategies that engage providers, improve quality and alter payment structures to incentivize system-wide change.
• Learn what the priority issues are for Medicaid in 2015.

Who Should Attend

State Medicaid directors, budget officials, policy makers and researchers; State officials for public health, behavioral health, health insurance, long-term care and managed care; Safety net health systems, health centers and providers serving Medicaid; Medicaid managed care organizations and provider organizations implementing a variety of programs and initiatives to coordinate care and improve quality.

Speakers

Kathy D. Gifford, Managing Principal, Health Management Associates

Eileen Ellis, Managing Principal, Health Management Associates

Vernon K. Smith, Managing Principal, Health Management Associates

Register now for this free Webinar.