Week of August 12, 2025

Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Spending and Utilization

July 24 shared Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) issue brief.
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Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Nonmedical Quality of Life Concepts

July 9 Shirley Ryan Ability Lab shared Pub Med posted DHJO article on focus group findings.
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Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) and Medicare/Medicaid Home Health – HHS-CMS Analyst (Battelle) Considers New Quality Measures

August 7 and 8 Battelle Partnership for Quality Measures, Committee on Advanced Illness and Post-Acute Care Committee consideration of HCBS and Home Health quality measures.
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Using Disability Data Dashboards To Advance Policy and Advocacy

July 21 Brandeis Lurie Institute for Disability Policy webinar You Tube replay.
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Community Care Hubs – Infographic

August 5 Hartford Fd shared ACL funded DABI web posted Partnership To Align infographic.
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Community Engagement Interventions To Improve Outcomes

August 7 Playbook Better Care for People with Complex Needs collection of evidence, case studies, and tools.
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Aligning Systems To Expand Evidence-Based Home Visiting

August 6 RWJ funded Systems for Action webinar materials and journal article and other resources.
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Long-Term Services and Supports: Users by State, County, Setting

August 1 Self-Direction News shared ATI Advisory dashboard.
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Community Health Workers and Family Caregivers – Connections and Community Resources

July 31 NASHP shared April 30 NASHP webinar slides and recording.
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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule – Aligning Social Care Topics

August 6 Partnership To Align Social Care briefing slides.
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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule – Modernizing and Improving Primary Care Payment

August 8 Primary Care Collaborative briefing and issue brief.
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Patient Experience Measurement: New CAHPS Tools

June 25 AHRQ Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) webinar slides, recording, materials.
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Substance Use Treatment – Persons with and without Disability

August 5 Disability and Health Journal article.
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Chronic Pain Treatment and Management: Implications for Disability Determination

July 24 National Academy of Medicine announced workshop proceedings.
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State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program: Revised Primer for State Agencies

August 1 ADvancing States shared primer.
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CMS CMMI: What’s Next – Promise and Peril

August 4 FUSA publication on the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
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Optimizing Medicare and Medicaid Payments Through Implementation of CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure

July 25 ADvancing States shared Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing article.
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Navigating the Hospital Discharge Crisis – Oregon

July 16 ATI Advisory webinar slides.
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Community Health Centers in Accountable Care Organizations: Progress and Future Directions

August 4 Commonwealth Fund paper.
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Medicare Fiscal Challenges – Fee-for-Service; ACOs; Medicare Advantage

July 30 Health Affairs perspectives.
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