Working with Medicare

This is part two a two-part Integrated Care Resource Center (ICRC) Working with Medicare webinar on Medicare 201 held on March 25, 2021.

This webinar provides an overview of integrated care pathways, how states can work with D-SNPs to design supplemental benefits offerings, and steps that states can take to improve coordination of care for dually eligible populations. The webinar is especially helpful to state staff who are new to or seek a refresher on Medicare.

This is part one of a two-part Integrated Care Resource Center (ICRC) Working with Medicare webinar on Medicare 101, held on March 22, 2021.

This webinar provides an overview of Medicare benefits, how Medicare and Medicaid benefits overlap and interact for dually eligible individuals, and steps that states can take to improve care for vulnerable dually eligible populations. The webinar is especially helpful to state staff who are new to or seek a refresher on Medicare.

This is part one of a two part series that provides an overview of state strategies for contracting with D-SNPs to improve care coordination and Medicare-Medicaid alignment for dually eligible enrollees. The webinars are especially helpful to state staff who are new to or seek a refresher on D-SNP contracting and working with Medicare plans.

Webinar 1: Introduction to D-SNPs and D-SNP Contracting Basics

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, attendees should be able to describe:

This is part two of a two part series that provides an overview of state strategies for contracting with D-SNPs to improve care coordination and Medicare-Medicaid alignment for dually eligible enrollees. The webinars are especially helpful to state staff who are new to or seek a refresher on D-SNP contracting and working with Medicare plans.

Webinar 2: Using D-SNPs to Integrate Care for Dually Eligible Individuals

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, attendees should be able to describe:

This webinar provides an overview of Medicare and Medicaid behavioral health benefits (including mental health and substance use disorder benefits) for dually eligible individuals and opportunities to improve coordination in integrated care programs. It includes a summary of the new Medicare Opioid Treatment Benefit and implications for state Medicaid programs, as well as information about state options for covering treatment services in Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMDs).

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, attendees are able to:

This webinar provides an overview of Medicare program features of interest to state staff working to integrate care for dually eligible beneficiaries.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, attendees are able to:

This Working with Medicare webinar provides an overview of data on Medicare and Medicaid spending on nursing facilities for dually eligible beneficiaries, Medicare and Medicaid coverage of nursing facility benefits, and characteristics of Medicare and Medicaid nursing facilities and residents. The presentation also briefly reviews SNF/NF payment systems and methods utilized by FFS Medicare, FFS Medicaid, and managed care health plans, discussing options for states and health plans to increase coordination and quality in SNF and NF services.