Improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of publicly financed health care
Events
The Center for Health Care Strategies hosts a variety of public and private events addressing best practices and emerging issues in improving quality for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Details about select upcoming and recently held events can be found below. You can also download resources from past webinars or meetings.
Upcoming and Recent Events
CHIPRA Webinar: Psychotropic Medication
This webinar provided an overview of the current landscape related to efforts to improve psychotropic medication management and prescribing practices for youth, particularly those involved with Child Welfare.
CHIPRA Webinar: Reengineering Residential Treatment
This two-hour webinar: 1) Described the Building Bridges Initiative, both as a national initiative that is "working to identify and promote practice and policy that will create strong and closely coordinated partnerships and collaborations between families, youth, community - and residentially - based treatment and service providers;" and from the perspective of a provider in Massachusetts; and 2) Highlighted the experience of New Jersey and one of its residential treatment providers in changing its philosophy and service delivery model and work more collaboratively with children and families served by CMEs.
Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: An Exploration of State Options
This 90-minute webinar from the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) explored promising options for integrating physical and behavioral health services within managed delivery systems. Participants heard about new strategies for designing integrated care models and learned how three states - Vermont, Tennessee, and Arizona - are approaching integration from different vantage points.
CHIPRA Webinar: Coordination with Primary Care
This webinar highlighted the experiences of two CMEs -- Wraparound Milwaukee and the former Massachusetts Mental Health Services Program for Youth (MHSPY) -- in their efforts to identify and engage primary care providers, ensure that children served by the CME have a medical home, that there is coordination between behavioral and physical health care, and that particular attention is paid to children on psychotropic medications.
Forecasting the Return on Investment of Health Homes and Medical Homes
During this 90-minute webinar, states, health plans, and other stakeholders learned how they can use this free, web-based tool to develop an ROI forecast, and to facilitate health home or medical home program design.
Preparing for the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase
The Affordable Care Act requires and provides federal funding for states to pay Medicaid PCPs at parity with Medicare in 2013 and 2014. This CHCS webinar described how Medicaid agencies and health plans can address the numerous policy and technical issues associated with implementing this rate increase to benefit the Medicaid primary care system as it prepares for upwards of 20 million new beneficiaries.
Stakeholder Update: California's Pilot Program for Dual Eligibles
This 90-minute webinar, coordinated with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), outlined new federal funding opportunities to integrate care for dual eligibles, detailed preliminary DHCS plans for an integrated care program pilot, and addressed the challenges and benefits other states have experienced in developing integrated care for duals.
Advancing Integrated Models for Dual Eligibles: New Innovations and Opportunities
Through ongoing support from The Commonwealth Fund, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) has helped many state innovators develop and implement new strategies to provide higher-quality and more cost-effective care for duals. This 90-minute webinar highlighted state progress from across the country and showcased innovative approaches being pursued in two states. A representative from the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Federal Coordinated Health Care Office outlined opportunities to help states achieve meaningful integration and better care for people who are dually eligible.
Roadmap for Long-Term Supports and Services: State Innovations and Opportunities
Through support from The SCAN Foundation, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) developed a set of Profiles of State Innovation Roadmaps that synthesize lessons from state long-term supports and services (LTSS) pioneers. This 90-minute webinar summarized critical considerations for LTSS program design and highlight innovative activities in two states. A representative from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlined how states can maximize federal opportunities to build higher-quality and more cost-effective LTSS programs.
Strategies for Finding and Engaging Medicaid Beneficiaries for Complex Care Management
This 90-minute webinar outlined the strategic approach that Washington State is using to significantly enhance consumer engagement and improve the impact of care management for adults with mental illness and/or chemical dependency, as well as physical health comorbidities.