(Webinar) Proposed Guidelines on Medicaid Funds, Entry and High quality: Implications for Well being Care Stakeholders – June twentieth, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

On Thursday, April 27, the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers (CMS) launched two extremely anticipated proposed guidelines (here and here). Collectively, these would reshape the federal regulatory panorama for Medicaid and the Youngsters’s Well being Insurance coverage Program (CHIP), notably with respect to requirements for making certain entry to care, transparency and oversight of supplier cost charges, engagement of Medicaid enrollees and the general public, high quality measurement, and program accountability.

In a brand new webinar, Manatt Well being will evaluate a few of CMS’s key proposals and focus on the implications for stakeholders, together with Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries, well being care suppliers, state Medicaid businesses, and Medicaid managed care plans. Click on here to register for this free program. The webinar will embody dialogue of CMS’s proposals to:

• Modify the guardrails and areas of state flexibility concerning state directed funds (SDPs), a mechanism that states can use to ascertain parameters for managed care plans’ funds to suppliers
• Improve transparency concerning supplier charges and require the publication of comparative charge analyses for sure companies, in each the fee-for-service (FFS) and managed care supply programs
• Strengthen the framework for monitoring entry to care
• Set up new necessities and processes concerning high quality requirements and efficiency measurement for managed care plans

Even in the event you can’t make our dwell airing on June 20, register now for the free webinar and also you’ll obtain a hyperlink to view the session on demand.

Observe: CMS’s proposed guidelines additionally embody quite a few proposals aimed toward enhancing entry and high quality for residence and community-based companies (HCBS). Manatt mentioned these proposals in a separate webinar. Should you missed our session on “Proposed Guidelines to Improve Entry and High quality for Medicaid HCBS and Strengthen the HCBS Workforce,” click on here to view this system free of charge on demand.

Audio system:

• Emily R. Service, M.D., Senior Advisor, Manatt Well being
• Avi Herring, Director, Manatt Well being
• Kaylee O’Connor, Senior Supervisor, Manatt Well being
• Julian Polaris, Companion, Manatt Well being

If you need to obtain an audio transcript of this webinar attributable to accessibility points, please e mail us at [email protected].