Beyond Medicaid: Critical Roles for Public Health, Insurance, and States in Fostering Multi-Payer Payment Reform

States Have Numerous Roles in Fostering Multi-Payer Payment Reform Extend Beyond Funding

This webinar highlights the roles of different state agencies in multi-payer payment reform, and demonstrate collaboration between distinct state agencies during design and implementation of delivery system reform. Beginning with an overview on the role of state Medicaid agencies in advancing statewide health transformation, the webinar features representatives from the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance in Montana, Office of Employee Health & Benefits in Maine, and Department of Health in Vermont. This diverse trio of state officials each tell the story of how their agency played a critical role in collaborating with multi-disciplinary colleagues and developing and implementing a multi-payer model.  In particular, panelists discuss the specific policy levers available to their agency that they leveraged to advance reform.
This webinar is applicable to a broad audience of state health policymakers and helps state officials from diverse agencies understand how they can work together and catalyze multi-payer payment reform.
Goals

• Demonstrate the key role that state agencies other than Medicaid (e.g., Public Health, Insurance, State Employees) can have in designing and implementing multi-payer payment reform
• Highlight successful inter-agency collaborations and partnerships in designing and implementing multi-payer payment reform at the state level

Speakers

• Amanda Eby, Project Administrator, Montana Office of the Commissioner of Securities and Insurance
• Frank Johnson, Director of System and Payment Reform for the Maine Health Management Coalition (former Executive Director, Maine Office of Employee Health & Benefits)
• Harry Chen, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health

Moderator

• Mary Takach, Senior Program Director, NASHP