Rates of illness and death due to the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionally impacted Americans who are Black, African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian, and other people of color as well as people with disabilities and those subsisting on poverty-level income. In response to this, , in partnership with the a Massachusetts-based cross-disability advocacy and action research organization, released a new report: Advancing Health Justice Using Medicaid Data: Key Lessons from Minnesota for the Nation. This report provides information on the importance of investing in data analysis to advance health justice in Medicaid populations. It further highlights the importance of partnering with communities most impacted by injustices that cause inequities in health outcomes.
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HMA to lead Integrated Care Technical Assistance Program in the District of Columbia
The District of Columbia’s Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) has engaged 黑料网 (HMA) to spearhead a multi-year training and coaching effort across the District. The five-year project will support Medicaid providers’ efforts to deliver whole person care by integrating physical and behavioral health in order to better manage the complex needs of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Strategies to Integrate Health and Human Services Systems
This webinar was held on September 22, 2020.聽
State and local governments face a common set of challenges to implementing well-coordinated, fully-integrated health and human services (HHS) programs. From multiple information systems that cannot exchange data to overlapping funding streams and workflows, fragmented and siloed HHS systems create inefficiencies which jeopardize the health and wellbeing of the populations which they seek to serve. During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC shared recommendations that states and localities can adopt to achieve greater coordination of HHS programs.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about practices being employed across the country to improve coordination of health and human services, including the critical role of improved information management and systems in enabling service coordination.
- Learn how HMA can support state and local government agencies on HHS coordination/ integration initiatives.
- Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation and validation that enable HHS agencies to have greater visibility into the needs of individual residents and tailor interventions that more effectively address those needs.
Speakers
Laura Zaremba, MA, Principal, HMA
Sita Kapoor, HealthEC, Chief Information Officer
Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Making the Most Out of Opioid Use Disorder Funding
This webinar was held on September 17, 2020.
With access to billions of dollars in federal funding aimed at battling the opioid epidemic, state and local governments are working with health plans and providers to build the most efficient and effective programs to help individuals struggling with opioid use disorder (OUD). During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC touched on best practices for the design, implementation, and evaluation of OUD prevention and treatment programs that help maximize the return on investment on OUD program funds.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about practices being employed across the country to design, implement, evaluate and continuously improve OUD prevention and treatment programs.
- Learn how HMA can work with state and local government agencies, health plans and providers on OUD prevention and treatment programmatic initiatives.
- Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation and comparative analysis in support of program design, ongoing evaluation and continuous improvement efforts.
Speakers
Jim McEvoy, MA, Principal, HMA
Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, MS, Health EC, Senior Medical Director
Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Maximizing the 鈥淰alue鈥� of Value-Based Payment Arrangements
This webinar was held on September 15, 2020.
Provider-based organizations – particularly groups of providers such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), independent practice associations (IPAs), and clinically integrated networks – are in a unique position to create value for patients. Moreover, payers are increasingly being called upon to enter into value-based payment arrangements with providers. During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC discussed ways in which providers can maximize the 鈥渧alue鈥� of their value-based payment arrangements through careful contract design, robust performance measurement systems, and an orientation toward population health management.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about strategies provider-based organizations should employ to design, negotiate and administer value-based payment contracts.
- Learn how HMA can work with provider-based organizations to succeed in a value-based payment environment.
- Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation and comparative analysis in support of value-based payment contract negotiation, administration and continuous optimization.
Speakers
Greg Vachon, MD, MPH, Principal, HMA
Sanjay Seth, MD, MPH, MS, HealthEC, Executive Vice President
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Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: How Health Plans Can Meet Competing Performance Demands of Stakeholders
This webinar was held on September 10, 2020.
Health plans face complex and competing demands from a wide variety of stakeholders for measurable improvements in performance. That鈥檚 especially challenging for small and mid-sized health plans that don鈥檛 have the resources of larger entities. During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC outlined ways in which health plans can use data and robust analysis to prioritize performance management efforts, improve key business functions, and meet the varied needs of state and federal regulatory agencies, enrollees, providers, advocacy groups, and other constituencies.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about how health plans should approach improvements in business functions and overall performance to address the needs of various stakeholders.
- Learn how HMA can work with health plans on process and performance improvement initiatives.
- Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve health plan processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation and comparative analysis in support of process and performance improvement initiatives.
Speakers
Glenda Stepchinski, RN, BSN, Senior Consultant, HMA
Frank Persinger, Vice President, Strategic Development, HealthEC
Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: How States Are Rethinking Medicaid Managed Care Performance Management
This webinar was held on September 8, 2020.
State Medicaid agencies (SMAs) are actively exploring improved approaches to managing the performance of Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) and accountable care organizations (ACOs), emphasizing tailored quality measures, new incentive models, more effective use of information technology, and revised contract requirements.
During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC outlined potential improvements to MCO/ACO performance management and showcased ways in which information technology can be deployed to enable these improvements.
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- Learn about ways in which the number and mix of measures, the design of business processes and use of information systems should change to achieve improvements in MCO/ACO performance management.
- Learn how HMA can work with SMAs on performance management initiatives.
- Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve SMA processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation, and comparative analysis in support of performance management system improvements.
Speakers
Steve Soto, Principal, HMA
Sita Kapoor, HealthEC, Chief Information Officer
Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Optimizing Your Communicable Disease Outbreak Management
This webinar was held on September 3, 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the challenges faced by state and local data management and analytics infrastructures in preventing and responding to infectious disease outbreaks. During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC provided a framework for how states and local jurisdictions can leverage data to prevent major disease outbreaks and implement targeted strategies to address outbreaks when they occur.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how data and analytics infrastructures can be used to help prevent infectious disease outbreaks.
- Learn about surveillance capabilities, including 鈥渆arly warning鈥� capabilities, made possible by more robust contact tracing functionality and Internet-enabled devices, such as thermometers and remote monitoring systems.
- Explore response management capabilities, such as robust real-time adaptive modeling that can drive resource allocation and deployment.
- Understand risk stratification and predictive modeling which supports smart pre-deployment of outreach to vulnerable populations.
Speakers
Liddy Garcia-Bunuel, Principal, HMA
Jennifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, MS, HealthEC, Senior Medical Director
Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Achieving Health Equity for Disadvantaged Populations
This webinar was held on September 1, 2020.
Across the nation, an unprecedented focus is being placed on achieving the goal of health equity. This goal requires acquiring, aggregating, and analyzing data on social determinants of health to help identify and address the root causes of health disparities. During this webinar, experts from HMA and HealthEC provided a roadmap for how states, health plans, and providers can leverage data to support the design, development, and implementation of successful health equity initiatives.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand why achieving health equity is an increasingly important goal for state Medicaid agencies, health plans and providers.
- Learn how racial inequality and social determinants of health contribute to inequities in health care access, outcomes, and status.
- Assess the readiness of states, health plans, and providers to address concerns over the impact of health equity on the morbidity and mortality or disadvantaged populations.
- Understand the role of analytics and population health management in identifying the causes of health disparities and building successful health equity initiatives.
Speakers
Desmond Banks, MPH, PhD, Senior Consultant, HMA, Washington DC
Jennifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, MS, Health EC, Senior Medical Director
HMA announces cancellation of 2020 annual conference
黑料网 has made the decision to cancel its October 2020 conference on Trends in Publicly Sponsored Healthcare, given continuing developments concerning COVID-19 and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of attendees, speakers, and staff. Full refunds will be made to registered attendees and sponsors.
Early Bird Registration Expires July 29 for HMA Conference, October 26-27 in Chicago
Be sure to register soon for HMA鈥檚 conference on What鈥檚 Next for Medicaid, Medicare, and Publicly Sponsored Healthcare: How Payers, Providers, and States Are Navigating a Future of Opportunity and Uncertainty, October 26-27, at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park. The Early Bird registration rate of $1595 per person expires on July 29.聽 After that, the rate is $1795.
HMA conference on trends in publicly sponsored healthcare
HMA Conference 2020
What鈥檚 Next for Medicaid, Medicare, and Publicly Sponsored Healthcare:
How Payers, Providers, and States Are Navigating a Future of Opportunity and Uncertainty
Pre-Conference Workshop: October 25
Conference: October 26-27
Location: Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park