Building Medicaid Leadership Capacity

post Medicaid Leadership Exchange: A Candid Dialogue on What Works — and What Doesn’t — in Leading Today’s State Programs Medicaid directors in states across the country navigate an increasingly complex world, one in which they balance the needs...

May 2019

post Incorporating Consumer Voices into Program Development: Q&A with Washington’s Medicaid Director MaryAnne Lindeblad Medicaid programs are increasingly interested in fostering cross-sector alignment as a means to provide quality and cost-effective health care...

April 2019

post Using Medicaid Levers to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Disparities: A Q&A with Louisiana’s Medicaid Director Jen Steele Since Louisiana expanded Medicaid in 2016, an additional 502,647 newly eligible adults enrolled in the state’s health care program...

March 2019

post Connecting Physical and Oral Health Care in Louisiana Primary care professionals are generally the first point of contact in the health care system and are often underutilized...

December 2018

post Reducing Dental Opioid Prescribing in Oregon: A Conversation with Oral Health Leaders With the United States in the grip of an opioid epidemic, public health care leaders are seeking innovative solutions...

December 2018

post Combatting Opioid Misuse in Tennessee and West Virginia: A Conversation with Two State Medicaid Directors The opioid epidemic is a national public health crisis, with more than 115 Americans dying daily from opioid-related overdoses....

June 2018

post Building a Medicaid Framework to Promote Healthy Behaviors: An Interview with Steve Fitton Medicaid programs are increasingly interested in strategies for engaging consumers, including the use of financial incentives to promote healthy...

February 2018

post Developing Capacity for Cross-Sector Collaboration in Medicaid: An Interview with Elena Nicolella Elena Nicolella, executive director of the New England States Consortium Systems Organization (NESCSO), knows first-hand the importance of eliminating...

October 2017

post Putting Medicaid Capacity Building into Action State Medicaid agencies play a central role in translating policy changes into action. Policymakers and state Medicaid directors recognize...

August 2017

post Championing Behavioral Health Integration through Medicaid Leadership: A Conversation with Arizona’s Medicaid Director Tom Betlach Tom Betlach, one of the country’s longest-serving Medicaid directors, has been at the helm of the Arizona Health Care...

July 2017

post DHCS Academy: First-in-the-Nation Experiment is a Big Success Story Inside Sacramento’s historic library building, 30 managers from California’s Department of Health Care Services are working in small groups...

January 2017

post A Look at CHCS Medicaid Academies: Featuring Vermont The Medicaid program remains the largest health insurer in most states and the one most responsible for our citizens...

November 2016