Webinars | Nov 7, 2024

Leveraging Medicaid Managed Care to Address Health-Related Social Needs

On Thursday, November 7, State Health and Value Strategies hosted a webinar highlighting the ways states are addressing enrollees’ health-related social needs (HRSNs) through their Medicaid managed care programs and contracts. During the webinar, experts from Bailit Health showcased recent updates to the SHVS Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care toolkit, highlighted state approaches to require and/or incentivize Medicaid plans to address HRSNs, and facilitated a discussion with state Medicaid officials.



Expert Perspectives

Protecting Access to Preventive Services: A State Roadmap 

On January 10, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case, Becerra v. Braidwood Management, Inc., that could substantially weaken the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of no-cost preventive services in private insurance. This expert perspective describes how states can take action to preserve no-cost preventive services coverage in their regulated markets through legislative or administrative means, including by shoring up their essential health benefits benchmarks, leveraging standardized plans, and using the bully pulpit to identify carriers and insurance products that retreat from today’s coverage.