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Templates & Toolkits

Starting November 1, 2024, people who receive Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status will be eligible to enroll in coverage through health insurance Marketplaces under a new policy issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To inform state strategies to best reach and educate newly eligible DACA recipients about their eligibility, SHVS created a toolkit for reaching the DACA population based on existing research, with outreach strategies and template materials to raise awareness and promote enrollment.

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Date Created: Oct 28, 2024


Webinars

On Tuesday, October 29, State Health and Value Strategies hosted a webinar discussing the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, extended by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and currently set to expire at the end of 2025. During the webinar, experts from the Urban Institute presented recent research to estimate the impact of the enhancements and examined key timing considerations for states related to the expiration or possible extension of the enhanced PTCs.

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Date Created: Oct 15, 2024


Templates & Toolkits

Under the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final rule, state Medicaid agencies will need to create and support a Beneficiary Advisory Council (BAC) and Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC) by July 2025, with some requirements phased-in over a longer time period. This template slide deck is designed to support state agencies in communicating internally about the BAC and MAC and provides a high-level summary of the function, objectives, composition, and outcomes of the new advisory groups. States can customize the content of this template deck to reflect their unique contexts and priorities.

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Date Created: Oct 7, 2024


Webinars

On Tuesday, September 24, State Health and Value Strategies hosted a webinar showcasing how the Buying Value suite of resources can help states, employers, consumer organizations and providers implement quality measures to incentivize high-quality, high-value, equitable healthcare. The webinar highlighted two free, Excel-based tools, the Buying Value Measure Selection Tool and the Buying Value Benchmark Repository.

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Date Created: Sep 9, 2024


Webinars

On Monday, August 19, State Health and Value Strategies hosted a webinar on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently released State Health Official (SHO) letter providing implementation guidance on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA) requirements that states provide specific services for children and youth eligible for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and involved in the juvenile justice system. During the webinar, experts from Manatt Health provided a detailed overview of CMS’ guidance in the SHO letter and discussed key operational and policy considerations for states.

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Date Created: Aug 19, 2024


Templates & Toolkits

This state toolkit is intended to support decision-making in states interested in, actively pursuing, or implementing section 1115 demonstrations to provide continuous enrollment (CE) to Medicaid and CHIP populations, with a focus on multi-year CE for young children. The toolkit describes evidence supporting CE policies; considerations for specific populations; estimating multi-year CE costs; and demonstration evaluation and monitoring requirements.

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Date Created: Jul 26, 2024


Webinars

On Monday, July 15, State Health and Value Strategies hosted a webinar on the revisions to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. During the webinar, experts from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and Health Equity Solutions reviewed the new OMB standards for race and ethnicity data collection, described the history of federally-defined race and ethnicity data collection standards, and highlighted the motivations for the revisions. The webinar also featured a discussion of the implications for health equity and provided guidance for implementing the standards in partnership with key stakeholders.

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Date Created: Jul 15, 2024


Meetings & Presentations

Resources related to our convening, Affordable Health Coverage for Non-Citizen Populations, held on June 27 and 28, 2024 in Denver, Colorado.

Date Created: Jun 26, 2024


State Spotlights

On April 1, 2024, New York began covering residents in a new affordable coverage program made possible with a first-of-its-kind section 1332 waiver, reshaping the insurance market and allowing the state flexibility to design a program with people at the center.

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Date Created: Jun 12, 2024


Webinars

On Thursday, June 6, State Health and Value Strategies hosted the final webinar in a three-part webinar series on CMS’ highly anticipated final rules: (1) Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality (the “Managed Care Rule”), which focuses on managed care delivery systems; and (2) Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services (the “Access Rule”), which focuses on fee-for-service delivery systems and program improvements for home and community-based services (HCBS) across delivery systems. Building on Parts 1 and 2 of the webinar series, Part 3 provided a detailed overview of provisions in the Access Rule that aim to enhance access to HCBS, standardize quality measures and reporting requirements, and help address long-standing shortages in the direct care workforce.

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Date Created: Jun 6, 2024