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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.

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Study Hall Call | November 2016
Identifying Newly Eligible Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees for Enrollment in Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstrations
This webinar describes an opportunity identify prospective Medicare-Medicaid enrollees for enrollment into capitated financial alignment demonstrations and provides perspectives from Massachusetts and Michigan on states' use of this process.… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Study Hall Call | July 2016
Data-Driven Strategies - Analyzing Opt-Outs and Engaging Beneficiaries and Providers
This webinar features state experiences using data-driven strategies to analyze opt-outs and engage beneficiaries and providers in financial alignment demonstrations. (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Other Resource | June 2016
Data-Driven Strategies - Analyzing Opt-Outs and Engaging Beneficiaries and Providers
This document describes the process that states and health plans participating in the capitated financial alignment demonstrations use to submit information to CMS' MARx systems. (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
Study Hall Call | March 2016
Using Microsoft Access to Simplify Enrollment Reconciliation in Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstrations
This presentation introduces state enrollment staff to a tool to help prioritize transaction reply codes and simplify enrollment reconciliation. (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Other Resource | March 2016
Technical Notes on a Microsoft Access Tool for Prioritizing the Daily Transaction Record Report
This document describes a Microsoft Access tool to prioritize information in the MARx system Daily Transaction Reply Report, and it explains states can use it to improve the timeliness and efficiency of their demonstration enrollment processes. (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Brief | January 2016
Interdisciplinary Care Teams for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees: Considerations for States
This brief describes key considerations for developing interdisciplinary care teams and explores how eight states addressed issues such as engaging providers and measurement approaches. (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Technical Assistance Tool | December 2015
Training Enrollment Broker Call Center Staff: Tips for States Implementing Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstrations
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)
Brief | November 2015
Medicare Chronic Care Management Services Payment: Implications for States Serving Dually Eligible Individuals
This brief identifies opportunities for states and their contracting plans that serve Medicare-Medicaid enrollees to better align Medicare and Medicaid coverage of care management using Medicare's new chronic care management payment. (Integrated Care Resource Center)
July 2015
How Managed Long-Term Services and Supports is Providing Care Coordination
This report summarizes care coordination models and care coordinator responsibilities in Medicaid managed long-term services and supports programs in 18 states. (AARP Public Policy Institute)
Study Hall Call | June 2015
Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents: Three Perspectives
The webinar features perspectives and lessons learned from two Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (FIDE SNPs) - HealthPartners in Minnesota and Bridgeway Health Solutions in Arizona - and from The Curators of the University of… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Brief | June 2015
Effective Transitions between Care Settings
Concerns about care transitions between acute and long-term services and supports (LTSS) settings have been raised since at least the 1990s. More recently, studies have emphasized the growing need to address care transitions from nursing homes to… (AARP Public Policy Institute)
June 2015
Community-Based Care Transition Program
The Community-Based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) supported by the CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation tests models for improving care transitions from the hospital to other settings and reducing readmissions for high-risk Medicare… (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
Brief | April 2015
Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees in Nursing Facilities: Issues and Options for States
This brief outlines the options available to states in both capitated and fee-for-service arrangements to reduce avoidable hospitalizations from nursing facilities. (Integrated Care Resource Center)
Brief | February 2015
Strategies for Hiring and Training Care Managers in Integrated Programs Serving Medicare-Medicaid Beneficiaries
This brief shares strategies for hiring and training care managers for health plans with integrated care programs serving Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries. (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Other Resource | January 2015
Strategies for Training Care Coordinators/Care Managers in Integrated Health Plans
This webinar for California's Medi-Cal health plans highlights strategies for hiring and training care managers in integrated care programs. (Center for Health Care Strategies)