Issue Briefs , Reports | Mar 30, 2016

Integrating Public Health and Health Care: Getting Beyond the Theory

Erin Taylor, Michael Bailit, and Mary Beth Dyer, Bailit Health Purchasing LLC, and Karen Hacker

Changes in population-based payment models in health care delivery have spurred enhanced efforts toward closer integration between state purchasers of health care and state, county, and local public health officials.  This issue brief, developed by Bailit Health Purchasing LLC and Dr. Karen Hacker, investigates approaches that state agencies might employ in order to better integrate public health and health care delivery as a means of improving health and the value of health care, and it is organized according to seven features of integration.  The issue brief is accompanied by three case studies providing additional detail to some of the examples cited in the brief.

Read the issue brief here.

Companion case studies:

Public Health Integration: Case Study – Better Together Hennepin (MN)

Public Health Integration: Case Study – Trillium Community Health Plan and Lane County (OR)

Public Health Integration: Case Study – Blueprint for Health (VT)


Expert Perspectives

January 7, 2025

Release of New E&E Guidance Related to Renewal Forms and Medicaid/Separate CHIP Transitions

Following the November release of guidance to support states’ efforts to verify eligibility and conduct renewals in compliance with federal Medicaid and CHIP requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued on December 20 two additional Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Informational Bulletins (CIBs). This expert perspective summarizes the requirements outlined in the CIBs.

New CMS Guidance on Compliance Requirements for Provision of Medicaid/CHIP Services to Incarcerated Youth

On December 19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released State Health Official (SHO) letter 24-006, “Provision of Medicaid and CHIP Services to Incarcerated Youth – FAQs,” which provides several clarifications for states on compliance expectations for implementing section 5121 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. This expert perspective describes key clarifications addressed in the SHO letter.