A 12-page Executive Summary offering summary highlights for 22 Accountable Care Organizations and ACO solutions companies regarding their successes during the most recent MSSP performance year.
KFF - Medicaid: Ten Items to Watch in 2022
- Enrollment and the pandemic: millions of people could lose coverage if they are no longer eligible or face administrative barriers
- State decisions around Medicaid coverage: ARPA provides a two-year fiscal incentive to encourage states to newly adopt the Medicaid expansion.
- BBBA and Medicaid coverage provisions: BBBA version that passed the House would create a temporary pathway to coverage for people in the coverage gap by allowing them to purchase subsidized coverage
- Administrative actions to maintain
- expand coverage: A January 2021 Biden Administration Executive Order called for efforts to “protect and strengthen Medicaid” and directed a review of waivers
- Staff and residents at long-term care facilities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
- The COVID-19 pandemic brought new focus to the long-standing unmet need for home and community-based services (HCBS) among seniors and people with disabilities and direct care workforce shortages.
- In response to the pandemic
- states took action to increase telehealth use to expand access to care; and to increase the scope of coverage and telehealth availability for behavioral health services
- Most states reported that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted them to expand Medicaid programs to address social determinants of health
- especially related to housing supports.
- The Administration and the majority of state Medicaid programs are implementing initiatives to address disparities in health care by race/ethnicity in Medicaid.
- State Medicaid agencies and Medicaid MCOS are implementing a variety of activities aimed at promoting the take-up of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Source: Medicaid: What to Watch in 2022, January 18, 2022 - https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-what-to-watch-in-2022/