State Materials , Templates & Toolkits | Apr 7, 2023

Compendium of Medicaid Managed Care Contracting Strategies to Promote Health Equity

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The Compendium identifies approaches states are taking within their Medicaid managed care (MMC) programs to promote health equity. It has been updated seven times since its original publication in June 2020 and this latest update describes approaches 21 states are taking within MMC to promote health equity, features state examples for further illustration, and includes excerpts from state contract and procurement documents. In this updated version information has been synthesized across select states and approaches have been categorized to support cross-state learning and incorporates examples from MMC procurements from Delaware, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and West Virginia, six states that are new to the Compendium. It also includes updated information for several states featured in prior versions. A companion expert perspective, What’s New in State Approaches to Promoting Health Equity in Medicaid Managed Care, highlights the states that are new to the Compendium.

 


Expert Perspectives

June 2, 2023

Communications Recommendations for Medicaid Agencies to Help Identify and Report Scams

As states continue the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement and redetermining their enrollees, states across the country have reported scams asking consumers for financial or personal information are prevalent. This expert perspective provides recommendations on what state communications and digital teams can do to mitigate online scams and protect official sources of information.

May 24, 2023

State Dashboards to Monitor the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement

The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement represents the largest nationwide coverage transition since the Affordable Care Act, with significant health equity implications. Given the intense focus on coverage transitions during the unwinding, some states have initiated plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor progress. To date, the District of Columbia and 15 states have published unwinding data in a visual dashboard format (this does not include states with pre-existing enrollment dashboards that don’t specifically identify unwinding cohorts). This expert perspective now includes an interactive map with the links to all the dashboards and states publishing CMS unwinding reports. SHVS will continue to update the EP and map as more states publish their unwinding data.