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3/7/25 3/7/25

Medicaid Nuts and Bolts: Understanding the Program’s Structure, Authorities, and Financing

1/30/25 1/30/25

Home and Community-Based Services Under Medi-Cal Managed Care: Considerations for Access

1/21/25 1/21/25

Unlocking Medicare Savings Programs’ Potential: State Policy Approaches to Health Care Affordability

Guest User 11/6/24 Guest User 11/6/24

CMS Managed Care Rule Implementation: How Secret Shoppers Can Enhance the Beneficiary Experience

Erin Spruell 9/11/24 Erin Spruell 9/11/24

Mark Your Calendar: Implementing the Medicaid Managed Care Rule

8/13/24 8/13/24

The Countdown Has Started: Implementing the Medicaid Access Rule

5/30/24 5/30/24

Medicaid Managed Care Rule: What’s Next for States and Managed Care Plans?

5/22/24 5/22/24

Strengthening Quality Measurement in Medicaid and CHIP Through the Access and Managed Care Rules

5/16/24 5/16/24

Advisory Committee Requirements in the Access Rule: What’s Next for Implementation?

5/13/24 5/13/24

New Methadone Flexibilities Can Help States Respond to the Opioid Crisis

5/9/24 5/9/24

HCBS Requirements in the CMS Access Rule: What’s Next for Implementation?

4/15/24 4/15/24

The Final Medicaid Access and Managed Care Rules Expected Soon from CMS: Are You Ready?

7/14/23 7/14/23

New Peer Support Services Benefit to Leverage Providers’ Lived Experience to Support Medi-Cal Members

5/2/23 5/2/23

Sowing Seeds of Change: Promising Early Results from California’s Medication Assisted Treatment Program

4/10/23 4/10/23

California’s Efforts to Facilitate Access to Medi-Cal Mental Health Services

Californians, like the rest of the country, are facing significant mental health challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic. The need for new and enhanced behavioral health supports and interventions has come into strong focus in recent years and states are leveraging their Medicaid programs to respond.

2/28/23 2/28/23

Effective Communication Strategies that Built and Strengthened the ACEs Aware Initiative

11/9/22 11/9/22

Strengthening the System of Behavioral Health Care in the District of Columbia

7/21/22 7/21/22

CalHOPE: A New Sustainable Model of Care

Thanks to tireless advocacy combined with impressive outcomes data, funding was allocated in the California state budget to support the continuation of the program. This is a prime example of how initial federal investments can ultimately lead to long-term sustainability of successful programs.

5/19/22 5/19/22

New Video Series Tells Stories of ACEs Aware in Action

When Aurrera Health launched the ACEs Aware initiative on behalf of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG) in late 2019, we knew we were on the forefront of change.

5/10/22 5/10/22

Leveraging Robust Evaluation Principles to Make Medicaid Better

A core element of all Medicaid Section 1115 “research and demonstration” waivers is an evaluation of the demonstration program and its efficacy in meeting the demonstration’s goals. Historically, however, Section 1115 waiver evaluations have been an afterthought for states and CMS, limiting their ability to inform future Medicaid policy and financing approaches.