Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Complex Community Needs and Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) Trends and New Directions
US Aging annual survey report: 2025 Chartbook; Self-Direction in the News shared – December 12.
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Quality Measures – Final Mathematica Report for/to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
HCBS Quality Measure Set Review Workgroup; Mathematica for/to CMS final report on 2028 HCBS QMs – January 8.
Medicaid Home Care: Payment Rates (ahead of the 2025 HR 1 Reconciliation Law)
Payment Rates for Medicaid Home Care Ahead of the 2025 Reconciliation Law report; Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) – January 5.
Medicaid Eligibility in Transition: What Community Health Centers Need To Know
Medicaid Eligibility in Transition: What Health Centers Need to Know webinar overview, slides, recording; National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) – December 9.
Medicaid “Interested Parties Advisory Groups” – CMS Guidance
Exercise of Enforcement Discretion until Calendar Year 2029 for Medicaid Interested Parties Advisory Group information bulletin; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – December 23.
Medicaid Compliance and Address Verification: Strategies To Prevent Coverage Loss
Medicaid Compliance and Address Verification: Strategies to Prevent Coverage Loss – Corporation for Supportive Housing blog; Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) – January 5.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1): Work and Community Engagement Requirements – CRS on Similarities and Differences Between Medicaid and SNAP Requirements
Work Requirements: Comparison of Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) After P.L. 119-21 report (Congress.gov | Library of Congress); Congressional Research Service (CRS) report – December 11.
Medicaid and CHIP: CMS Releases “Scorecard”
Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – released January 5.
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule – Community Health Centers Overview
Regulatory Affairs Office Hour CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule webinar slides; National Association of Community Health Centers– December 15.
Medicare Advantage and Part D Proposed Rules
Contract Year 2027 Medicare Advantage and Part D Proposed Rule – A General Overview of the CY 2027 MA and Part D Proposed Rule (CMS-4212-P) slides ; Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms Medicare Policy Initiative – December 19.
What Is the Difference Between a “Reasonable Accommodation” and a “Reasonable Modification”?
What is the difference between a “reasonable accommodation” and a “reasonable modification”? article; National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC), the library of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) – January 7 shared The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) explanation.
Disability Clinical Care – Curriculum for Health Care Professional Schools
Disability Clinical Care – Curriculum for Health Care Professional Schools – response by AAHD to a National Council on Disability (NCD); request for information offering ideas and experiences on disability clinical care curriculum for health care professional schools – January 6 submission.
Upstream Drivers of Health: Understanding the Policy Landscape
Webinar Replay – Understanding the Policy Landscape of Upstream Drivers of Health webinar slides and replay; Leavitt Partners, Health Management Associates (HMA) and National Alliance to Impact the Social Determinants of Health (NASDOH) – December 18.
The Role of Health Care Financing and Delivery Systems to Promote the Health of People with IDD
The Role of Healthcare Financing and Delivery Systems to Promote Health for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities article; American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) Inclusion journal article – September 1.
Primary Care Investment Guide
Primary Care Investment Guide report and briefing materials; Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) and Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care – December 18.
Federal Investment in Primary Care Transformation: A Systematic Review
Federal Investment in Primary Care Transformation – A Systematic Review and Qualitative Analysis, Jama Health Forum article ; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) authored – December 30 AHRQ shared November 7.
Peer Recovery Support Services in Substance Use Treatment
Peer Recovery Support Services in Substance Use Treatment – Center for Health Care Strategies paper;– Center for Health Care Strategies – January 6.
Social Needs Screening and Intervention: What’s Changing in NCQA HEDIS
Social Need Screening and Intervention: What’s Changing in the MY 2026 Technical Update; National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA), Healthcare Effectiveness and Data Information Set (HEDIS) – December 10.
Workforce for Persons with IDD – National Core Indicators Survey Report
NCI-IDD State of the Workforce for 2024 report – National Core Indicators IDD – December 22.
Working Family Caregivers: Tax Policy and Supports
Bridging Tax Policy & Real Life: Supporting America’s Working Family Caregivers slides; AARP – November 12.
Medicaid and CHIP Core Quality Measures – December 30 CMS Updates
2027 Updates to the Child and Adult Core Health Care Quality Measurement Sets and Mandatory Reporting Guidance; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – CMS SHO #2025-005 – December 30.
CMS MAHA ELEVATE Model
MAHA ELEVATE (Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence) Model; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – December 11.