Manatt Health
On Thursday, May 21, State Health and Value Strategies hosted a webinar, Medicaid IT: Investing in Needed Infrastructure to Address COVID-19. As states face the extraordinary challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, information technology (IT) is an essential tool to support access to health coverage and the safe and effective evaluation, testing, and treatment of patients nationwide. Under the current statutory and regulatory framework, state Medicaid agencies are authorized to receive federal funding for Medicaid IT and associated activities, and much of it at an enhanced federal matching level.
During the webinar experts from Manatt Health reviewed potential IT investments in responding to COVID-19 and strategies for states to support these investments to secure current and potential IT investments that enable ongoing Medicaid program operations and advance health information exchange. The webinar built upon the corresponding issue brief .