States seeking to integrate Medicare and Medicaid services for dually eligible beneficiaries need to consider a variety of issues in program design and implementation such as incorporating behavioral health and long-term services and supports, consumers and providers engagement, and linking Medicare and Medicaid data. Use the filter below to view resources related to these and other topics.
This technical assistance tool is the last in a series of four tools that provide sample State Medicaid Agency Contract (SMAC) language that states can use in contracts with D-SNPs to meet federal requirements and advance state goals regarding care… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool is the first in a series of four tools that provide sample State Medicaid Agency Contract (SMAC) language that states can use in contracts with D-SNPs to meet federal requirementsand advance state goals regarding care… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool is the second in a series of four tools that provide sample State Medicaid AgencyContract (SMAC) language that states can use in contracts with D-SNPs to meet federal requirements and advance state goals regarding care… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool is the third in a series of four tools that provide sample State Medicaid Agency Contract (SMAC) language that states can use in contracts with D-SNPs to meet federal requirements and advance state goals regarding care… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
To operate in a state, a Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan(D-SNP) must hold a contract with the state Medicaid agency. Those state Medicaid agency contracts (SMACs) must all have at least certain minimum elements, and states can also add additional… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA) included provisions that give Medicare Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage plans (including Medicare-Medicaid Plans (MMPs)) tools to address opioid overutilization. To implement… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool describes the regulation that allows Medicare plans that provide prescription drug coverage (including MMPs) to use drug management programs to limit access to certain controlled substances determined to be “… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
New federal rules released in April 2019 require that Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) must, at a minimum, coordinate the delivery of Medicare and Medicaid benefits. The final rule includes new regulatory language effective January 1, 2020… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Dually eligible beneficiaries began enrolling in integrated Medicare-Medicaid plans (MMPs) under the Financial Alignment Initiative (FAI) in calendar year 2013. Under the FAI, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and 10… (Mathematica)
This technical assistance tool lists questions frequently asked by beneficiaries enrolling in capitated Financial Alignment Initiative demonstrations, and provides potential responses by enrollment brokers' customer service representatives (… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This tool describes the key areas of information that demonstration enrollment brokers' customer service representatives should master to improve the quality of decision-support services for beneficiaries who are being passively enrolled in a… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool covers key issues in RFPs and contracts related to consumer protection including marketing, member materials and education, continuity of care, and grievance and appeals processes.
(Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool covers key issues in RFPs and contracts related to care coordination including the structure of the care team, development of care plans, caseload requirements, and use of a centralized enrollee record.
(Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool covers key issues in RFPs and contracts related to behavioral health including coordination of behavioral health services, network availability of behavioral health services, and inclusion of behavioral health… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This technical assistance tool provides states with options to evaluate health plans' past performance as they consider those plans for participation in their integrated Medicare-Medicaid programs.
(Integrated Care Resource Center)