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 presentation describes the new Medicare hospice payment rules and system updates that states will need to make to comply with the rules.
(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
This report describes early implementation activities occurring in the first six months of the seven financial alignment demonstrations launched as of May 1, 2014.
(RTI International)
This brief offers tips to states on engaging a range of providers who serve Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in managed care systems and provides examples of approaches employed by states that have already launched integrated care programs.
(Integrated Care Resource Center)
This brief describes the design of the Financial Alignment Initiative and compares key provisions of the 10 capitated model demonstrations. Separate fact sheets are available on each of the 10 demonstrations.
(Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission)
This presentation discusses successful approaches to building collaborative working relationships between states, health plans, and nursing facility providers in integrated Medicare-Medicaid programs
(Integrated Care Resource Center)
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)
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)
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)
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)