Improving Access To Medical Care for People with Disabilities: Final ADA Rule
August 9 Department of Justice final Title II, ADA, Federal Register rule and fact sheet.
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services: Continuity of Coverage
August 19 CMS Informational Bulletin on HCBS federal renewal requirements and available flexibilities.
Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services: Persistent Inequities and Persons with IDD
August 2 Disability and Health Journal announced article using nationwide claims analysis.
National Academies (NASEM) Final Report on Expanding the Behavioral Health Workforce – August 8 Report, Materials, and Release Briefing
August 8 National Academies announced report release with materials. AAHD’s Clarke Ross served on the committee that prepared the report.
Policy Approaches To Improve State and Local Data Sharing – Public Health
July 28 ASTHO infographic.
Policy Approaches To Improve Data Sharing Between State and Local Health Departments (2)
July 22 ASTHO-NACCO-NPHL report.
CMS Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (5): Community Health Integration; Principal Illness Navigation; Peer Support
August 6 Partnership To Align Social Care webinar slides. See July 23 and Aug 6 AAHD news for four other PFS items.
CMS Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (6): Caregiver Training; Advanced Primary Care; ACO Quality
August 14 Partnership To Align Social Care webinar slides.
CMS Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (7): Primary Care Tools – Did CMS Nail It?
August 15 Milbank Memorial Fund blog.
CMS Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (8): Quality Payment Program
August 2 CMS proposed QPP updates.
9-8-8 and Crisis Services – Public Perspectives
August 2 NASMHPD shared NAMI poll of public perspectives.
9-8-8 and Crisis Lifeline – Two Years After Launch
July 29 Kaiser Family Foundation report.
9-8-8 and Crisis Responses – Two Years of Growth
August 7 MHLG shared SAMHSA issue brief.
Medicare Revised Primary Care Payment
August 6 posted NAM (NAESM) Senate Committee on Finance 58 page submission; also posted – NHMH with AAHD and Lakeshore submission; and FUSA with AAHD and Lakeshore submission to Senators Whitehouse and Cassidy on S. 4338 and RFI.
Why Primary Care Practitioners Aren’t Joining Value-Based Payment Models: Reasons and Potential Solutions
July 17 Commonwealth Fund funded, Mathematica report.
Successful Contracting Between CBOs (Community-Based Organizations) and Health Care Entities: Social Care
August 8 Aging and Disability Business Institute shared data brief.
Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Final CMS Rules
August 6 AAHD posted CMS fact sheet and Coalition To Preserve Rehabilitation summary.
Nursing Facility Quality of Care Through Medicare and Medicaid Integration
August 5 ATI Advisory webinar slides.
Exploring the Ecosystem of Health Equity Measures
August 12 National Academies (NAESM) shared June 2023 workshop summary.
Understanding the Concept of Intersectionality
July 23 SAMHSA funded, MHTTC guide.
How To Establish and Sustain Patient and Family Advisory Councils
July 24 IPFCC webinar slides.
Strengthening the Role and Diversity of Patient and Family Advisory Councils
July 29 IPFCC shared paper.
Medicaid Beneficiary Advisory Councils: AK, AZ, ME, MI, ND, OR, VA
July 18 Center for Health Care Strategies announced seven states learning series.
Identifying and Disseminating Best Practices To Treat Long COVID
August 14 AHRQ shared grantee profile.
History of the Disability Rights Movement and the ADA
July 24 Pacific ADA Center webinar slides.