DOJ Olmstead Memo and the Future of Olmstead and Community Living
The Future of Olmstead and Community Living webinar by The Alliance for Rights and Recovery; The Future of Olmstead: Community Living & Care at a Crossroads recording; National Academy of Social Insurance, Disability Economic Policy Research Consortium July 8. Click here for the transcript.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1): Work and Community Engagement Requirements: CMS Interim Final Rules – Understanding Exemptions and Protecting Patients
Medicaid Work Requirements: Understanding Exemptions and Protecting Patients | Avalere Health Advisory; Avalere Health – July 9.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1): Work and Community Engagement Requirements: CMS Interim Final Rules – FUSA Comment Guide
Families-USA-Medicaid-Work-Reporting-Requirements-IFR-Comment-Guide; Families USA – July 7.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1): Work and Community Engagement Requirements: CMS Interim Final Rules – Justice in Aging Tools for State Advocates
Mitigating the Harms of Medicaid Work Requirements for Older Adults: Tools for State Advocates toolkit; Justice in Aging – July 9.
Medicaid Reconciliation Law (HR 1): Work and Community Engagement Requirements: 26 States vs CMS: The Fight Over Medicaid Work Rules
26 States vs. CMS: The Fight Over Medicaid Work Rules summary; Manatt 80 Million Project – July 7.
Persons Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: We’ve Spent Decades Testing Medicare-Medicaid Integration. Why Don’t We Know If It Works?
We’ve Spent Decades Testing Medicare-Medicaid Integration. Why Don’t We Know If It Works? article?; Health Affairs article – July 7.
ACA: Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) Final Rules – Advocate Summary
Coalition To Preserve Rehabilitation (CPR)-Habilitation Benefits Coalition (HAB) summary of final March HHS-CMS rules – July 6. CPR-HAB March 13 comment submission, including AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation, is here: ACA Marketplace: CMS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) Proposed Rule: Rehabilitation and Habilitation Services – AAHD.
Expiring Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstrations
Medical Waiver Coalition shared list as of June 24.
Medicaid Payment Fraud – House Legislation
Bilirakis, Arrington, Miller-Meeks, Cammack, Palmer, Allen, Bean and Carter Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicaid Oversight and Protect Taxpayer Dollars press release; House committee leaders legislation on Medicaid payment integrity deficiencies and gaps – June 24.
Medicaid Managed Care: Behavioral Health Integration
Snapshot: Behavioral Health Integration in Medicaid Managed Care blog; National Academy for State Health Policy blog – July 6.
Developing a Primary Care-Specific Risk Adjustment Model – Mass Health Lessons
Developing a Primary Care-Specific Risk Adjustment Model: Lessons from MassHealth – CHCS blog; Center for Health Care Strategies – June 30.
Strategies for Financing and Sustaining Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings: From Coding To Braiding
From Coding to Braiding: Strategies for Financing and Sustaining Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings webinar recording; AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care – July 7 posting of June 18 webinar.
Strategies To Strengthen Public Health Systems and Workforce Capacity To Support People with Disabilities
Disability-Workforce-Recommendations-Report; NACCHO July 7 announced “newly released” dated September 2025.
Housing First: Avoiding Homelessness and Institutionalization
Housing First: A Key to Avoiding Homelessness and Institutionalization webinar recap and rcording; Brandeis Community Living Policy Center and Bazelon – June 11.
Accountable Health Communities – CO-NJ-OK Experiences
Insights from the Accountable Health Communities Model Final Evaluation Report webinar on final CMS evaluation report and three states’ experiences; SIREN and Camden Coalition – June 8.
HHS Delay in Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps – Disability Community Objects
HHS Delay in Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps – Disability Community Objects letter; AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation joined the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) objecting to HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) delay in accessibility of web content and mobile apps. Earlier AAHD joined CCD (June 22) in objecting to the Department of Justice delay in web and app accessibility: DOJ Delay in Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps – Disability Community Objects web positng – July 6.
Coordinating Health and Community Care in Rural, Frontier, and Tribal Communities: Insights from the Field
Resource Guide: Voices ( the Field: Insights on Coordinating Health and Community Care in Rura, Frontier and Tribal Communities report; ACL funded, US Aging Aging and Disability Business Institute – July 7 shared.
State Mental Health Agency Client-Level Data
2024 Mental Health Client Level Data (MH-CLD) Annual Release Annual Report CBHSQ (Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality) Data – SAMHSA shared – July 8.
Legal Tools Throughout the Behavioral Health Care Continuum
Legal Tools Throughout the Behavioral Health Care Continuum paper; National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) shared by SAMHSA – shared June 12.