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The State of the States in Delivering Health Care for Children in Foster Care: Findings of a State Survey
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPA 1999 survey of states by the National Academy for State Health Policy sought to examine the specific policies and procedures states have adopted to minimize these barriers and to ensure that the health care needs of children in foster care are met. The survey questionnaire was mailed to both Medicaid and Chief Welfare officials […]
Medicaid Eligibility Policy for Children in Foster Care
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPAccording to a 1995 report by the General Accounting Office, the 300,000 children living in foster care are among the most vulnerable children in the U.S. As a group, they are sicker than homeless children and children living in the poorest sections of inner cities. This high level of health care need makes health care […]
Quality Improvement Techniques to Improve Care Coordination: An Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) Webinar
/in Policy Webinars Chronic and Complex Populations, Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPState health agencies can catalyze the development of systems to improve care coordination between primary care and community service providers. This NASHP webinar, sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, focuses on lessons from ABCD III states as they developed quality improvement (QI) projects in partnership with physicians and community organizations to improve care coordination for children […]
Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment and Disenrollment: The Experience of Four States
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPThis report is the final phase of the National Academy for State Health Policy’s contribution to a larger study of Medicaid managed care enrollment and disenrollment, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and conducted by Cornell University and Virginia Commonwealth University. It focuses on the enrollment and disenrollment policies and experience of Medicaid managed care […]
Recent and Pending Federal Reforms Related to Managed Care
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPManaged care offers health care purchasers and providers an important opportunity to improve the quality of health care that individuals receive. At the same time, devising and implementing managed care quality accountability arrangements represents a major challenge for purchasers generally and for Medicaid purchasers in particular. This paper, prepared for the National Academy for State […]
National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO) Cooperative Agreement
/in Policy Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPIn 2011, NASHP was awarded a National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO) national cooperative agreement with the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). By facilitating collaboration between Medicaid agencies and the safety net, the NOSLO cooperative agreement, which builds on NASHP’s prior work with HRSA (see Community Health Centers), aims to support […]
Managed Care, Medicaid and the Elderly: Five State Case Studies
/in Policy Reports Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPIncreasingly, states are turning to managed care to deliver health services to Medicaid recipients. In a 1994 survey of states conducted by the National Academy for State Health Policy, 16 states reported that they enroll elders in Medicaid managed care programs. A few states (Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah) require mandatory enrollment and others allow […]
Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Accessing Early Intervention Services
/in Policy Webinars Chronic and Complex Populations, Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPEarly Intervention services can play a valuable role in promoting the healthy development of at-risk infants and young children. All too often, however, families and children who would benefit from Early Intervention services face barriers to accessing them. This Alumni webinar, sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, focused on a new study that identifies potential barriers […]
Engaging the Safety Net in Health Care Reform
/in Policy Webinars Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPFor a copy of the full slide presentation, click here. This webinar summarizes the deliberations and results of NASHP’s National Workgroup on Integrating a Safety Net into Health Care Reform Implementation. Over the course of nearly a year, this group of state and federal officials, national experts and associations, and safety net systems worked to […]
Protecting Low Income Beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid in Managed Care
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPVolume I: Contracting Arrangements, Beneficiary Choice, Enrollment and Disenrollment, and Tracking These papers were prepared prior to the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The Act makes significant changes that will affect managed care programs for dually eligible beneficiaries. However, the specific impact cannot be fully determined until regulations are drafted by HCFA. […]
For individuals living with complex, often chronic conditions, and their families, palliative care can provide relief from symptoms, improve satisfaction and outcomes, and help address critical mental and spiritual needs during difficult times. Now more than ever, there is growing recognition of the importance of palliative care services for individuals with serious illness, such as advance care planning, pain and symptom management, care coordination, and team-based, multi-disciplinary support. These services can help patients and families cope with the symptoms and stressors of disease, better anticipate and avoid crises, and reduce unnecessary and/or unwanted care. While this model is grounded in evidence that demonstrates improved quality of life, better outcomes, and reduced cost for patients, only a fraction of individuals who could benefit from palliative care receive it. 
Rhode Island Looks to Auto-Enrollment to Ease Transitions from Medicaid to Marketplace
/in Health Coverage and Access, Policy Rhode Island Blogs, Featured News Home State Insurance Marketplaces /by Gia Gould and Maureen Hensley-Quinn