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Implementing the Affordable Care Act: New Options for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services
Affordable Care Act | Chronic and Long Term Care | Dual eligibles

States have significant roles in implementing practically all aspects of the Affordable Care Act. The Act gives states additional options for financing Medicaid home and community based services and supports (HCBS) through a combination of enhanced Medicaid matching payments, demonstrations, and new Medicaid state plan options. They...

Diane Justice, Senior Program Director
October 2010
State Innovations in EPSDT
Children's coverage | Financing | Outreach

Between 2007 and 2009, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), with the support of The Commonwealth Fund worked with the Medicaid staff tasked with administering the EPSDT program (EPSDT coordinators) to support their efforts to improve children's access to health and developmental services as well as the quality of those...

Jennifer May
Neva Kaye, Managing Director, Health System Performance
February 2010
Enhanced Pregnancy Benefit Packages: Worth Another Look
Improving coverage | State Health | Vulnerable populations
Through their Medicaid programs, states may offer specialized pregnancy benefits to women that target risks contributing to poor pregnancy outcomes.  Though such benefits are categorized as “optional” Medicaid services, they are seen by many as critical to optimizing maternal health and positive birth outcomes. These enhanced...
C. Brett Johnson
Katharine Witgert, Program Manager
January 2010
Chronic Homelessness and High Users of Health Services: Report from a Meeting to Explore a Strategy for Reducing Medicaid Spending While Improving Care
Chronic and Long Term Care | Cost containment | Vulnerable populations
There is evidence that homeless people, especially the chronically homeless, incur high health care costs, much of which may be paid for with Medicaid funds. There is also evidence that health care costs are reduced when homeless people with intensive medical needs enter supportive housing, which combines affordable, stable housing with care...
Neva Kaye, Managing Director, Health System Performance
January 2008
Administering a Medicaid + Tax Credits Initiative
Employer Sponsored Insurance | Expanding coverage | Financing
A joint publication of the Health Insurance Reform Project at The George Washington University and the National Academy for State Health Policy For the past several years, there has been interest in proposals that would cover the uninsured through a combination of new federal health insurance...
Sonya Schwartz, Program Director
Lynn Etheredge
Alan Weil, Executive Director
February 2007