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State Oversight and Innovations in Medicaid-Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) Serving Older Adults and People with Disabilities 

NASHP

States are hoping to achieve a number of goals with their MLTSS programs, including increasing access to home and community-based services, promoting care coordination, enhancing quality and beneficiary satisfaction, and mitigating cost growth.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

And we hold facilities accountable when they fail to meet those standards. CMS deploys a range of quality measures to encourage transparency in public reporting of the quality of care in facilities and to increase accountability.

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Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services

NASHP

Monitor and evaluate quality improvement and outcomes and address barriers to care. Trainings must include community-based and cultural competency for delivering person-centered care and facilitating access to community-based resources. Implement quality and performance initiatives.

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Administration Strengthens Oversight of Nation’s Poorest-Performing Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Today’s announcement is part of a series of new actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to increase accountability of bad actors in the nursing home industry, improve the quality of nursing homes and make them safer. and face increasingly severe enforcement actions if improvement is not demonstrated.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

North Carolina’s InCK program , led by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brings together partners from Medicaid, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, Title V, mobile crisis, and more to coordinate care and address the health and social needs of children in five counties.