Medicaid Leadership Exchange: A Podcast by CHCS and NAMD

The Center for Health Care Strategies is partnering with the National Association of Medicaid Directors to produce Medicaid Leadership Exchange. This podcast series, made possible with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, features discussions with Medicaid directors on priority topics related to leading state agencies. The conversations offer candid insights into leadership strategies that have worked — and those that have not worked — straight from Medicaid directors themselves.

We hope that you’ll listen to these brief conversations when you have space in your day — making breakfast, walking the dog, on the commute to the office — and that they serve as a resource to support your leadership development efforts. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you subscribe to podcasts.

Season 5: Achieving Better Outcomes for Priority Populations

In this newest season of Medicaid Leadership Exchange, hear how states and territories are working to achieve better outcomes for individuals served by Medicaid, and the creative mechanisms being used to address health disparities — including by engaging communities. Listen to a season overview on what to expect from upcoming episodes.

Creating Supportive Partnerships Between Medicaid and Tribal Communities (July 2024)
How Medicaid Can Better Support Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs (June 2024)
Navigating Medicaid: Insights from a Parent Advocate (June 2024)
How Can States Better Serve Dually Eligible Populations? (May 2024)
The Critical Role of Medicaid in Addressing Maternal Health Disparities (May 2024)
The Impact of Medicaid on the Rural Health Care Landscape (May 2024)
Season 5 Overview: Achieving Better Outcomes for Priority Populations (May 2024)

Season 4: Aligning Across Agencies and Sectors

Improving Aging Supports Through Collaboration (July 2023)
The Intersection of Housing and Health (July 2023)
Aligning Medicaid and Behavioral Health in Virginia (July 2023)
Mapping Members’ Experience of Early Childhood Systems (June 2023)
Medicaid Finds New Partner in Justice (June 2023)
How Do Members Experience Medicaid? (May 2023)
Aligning for the Good of Medicaid Members (May 2023)

Season 3: Medicaid Post-Pandemic

Unwinding Pandemic-Era Medicaid Policies Requires Teamwork (July 2022)
Big Stakes in Home- and Community-Based Services (July 2022)
Inside Medicaid’s Workforce Recovery (July 2022)
Medicaid’s Ongoing Commitment to Equity (June 2022)
Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Children (June 2022)
Leading Medicaid Out of Emergency and Into Its Future (May 2022)

Season 2: Advancing Health Equity

Talking about Anti-Racism and Health Equity (July 2021)
Implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts to Better Support Staff of Color (July 2021)
Using Data to Empower Medicaid to Support Health Equity (July 2021)
Building Health Equity into Medicaid Budgeting (June 2021)
Addressing Barriers to Care for Rural Medicaid Enrollees (June 2021)
Vaccine Equity Strategies (May 2021)

Season 1: Lessons in Medicaid Leadership

Using Leadership Lessons to Navigate the Medicaid Landscape (May 2020)
Facilitating Cross-Agency Collaboration involving Medicaid (May 2020)
Developing Medicaid Agency Executive Teams (May 2020)
Moving the Needle on Maternal and Infant Mortality (March 2020)
Creating Meaningful Consumer Engagement in Medicaid (February 2020)
Staying on Mission in Wisconsin Medicaid: Strategies for Engaging Staff (January 2020)
Ensuring Strategic Program Sustainability in Medicaid (December 2019)
Developing Cross-Agency Collaboration to Better Serve Children in Foster Care (November 2019)

Support for this podcast was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

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