Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS): Final Access Rules
May 6 Mercer “Flash” summary of final Medicaid access and HCBS rules.
Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Enrollment by State and Type of Coordination/Integration Program
May 8 Justice in Aging Resource Center shared May 6 ATI paper with charts.
CMS Final ACA Section 1557 Nondiscrimination Rules: What People with Disabilities Need To Know About Discriminatory Benefit Design (3)
May 16 AAHD NDNRC blog. Both the May 7 and May 14 AAHD news included other Section 1557 analyses.
HHS Issues Final Revised Section 504 Non-Discrimination Rules (3)
May 2 PIPC (Partnership To Improve Patient Care) rules summary. Our May 7 news included the ACL blog summary. Our May 14 news included the Bazelon Center for MH Law summary.
Transformative Health Data Approaches Within the Disability Community
May 3 NACCHO shared, April 19 NACCHO blog on CDC-Local Health Departments on disability data collection and analysis.
Mental Health Diagnoses and Adults with Disabilities
May 15 Disability and Health Journal article.
Data Sharing Experiences in Health Plan-Community-Based Organization Partnerships
May 14 Partnership To Align Social Care discussion slides.
Mobile Crisis Teams: National Survey Report
May 17 NASMHPD shared SAMHSA funded, Vibrant Health report.
What is Patient Experience?
Two slides from the May 8 AHRQ webinar on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)-Listening to the Voice of the Patient. The complete webinar slides were shared in last week’s news.
Advancing Health Equity Through Health Payer Contracting for Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and Statewide IL Councils
May 16 ACL ADBI webinar slides.
Building a Health Equity Focus Into Value-Based Payment Design: Approaches for Medicaid Payers
May 14 Center for Health Care Strategies brief.
Medicaid Innovation Pathway – How Section 1115 Waivers Work
State Long-Term Care: Blueprint for Federal Solutions
May 14 Bipartisan Policy Center webinar video.
Primary Care: AHRQ Investments
May 14 AHRQ shared report.
Primary Care Payment Reform – Senators Whitehouse (RI)-Cassidy (LA) RFI – July 15 Deadline for Comments
May 15 Senators Whitehouse and Cassidy RFI with a July 15 deadline.
Harm Reduction – SAMHSA Findings from the Field
Contingency Management – NCMW on Need To Revise Rules
CMS Nursing Home Final Minimum Staffing Standards (3)
May 15 Nat Consumer Voice for Quality LTC rule summary. Two summaries were in the April 30 news #16.
CMS Nursing Home Final Minimum Staffing Standards: Residents Advocates Reject Industry Complaints (4)
May 9 Center for Medicare Advocacy statement.
Improving Nursing Home Quality: Understanding the Evidence and State Opportunities
May 16 Hartford Foundation shared Better Care Playbook materials collection.