Welcome to the 2013 Health Action Tool Kit. From here you can find materials from all of the workshop sessions held throughout the conference. Click on one of the days above to get started!
Building No Wrong Door: The New Single, Streamlined Application
Communicating with Plain Language (Enroll America)Design that Enhances Readability (Enroll America)
A Family of Three Using the Online Single Streamlined Application (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
The Ideal Application Process for Health Coverage (Enroll America)
An Individual Using the Online Single Streamlined Application (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for Model Applications (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for SHOP Application for Employees (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for SHOP Application for Employers (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Translations that Hit the Mark (Enroll America)
UX 2014 Application Design Prototype (Enroll UX 2014)
Cutting through the Static: Media Tips to Get Your Message Heard
Glossary of Media Terms (Families USA)Media Basics: A Key Step to Getting Media Coverage (Families USA)
Media Basics: Advanced Tools and Tips for Advocates (Families USA)
Forward-Thinking Exchange Policies
PowerPoint: Brokers and Health Insurance Exchanges (Dave Chandra, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)PowerPoint: Working for an Exchange We Can Believe In: Consumer Goals for Covered California (Anthony Wright, Health Access California)
Brokers and Agents and Health Insurance Exchanges (Families USA)
Consumer-Friendly Standards for Qualified Health Plans in Exchanges: Examples from the States (Families USA)
Small Employer (SHOP) Exchange Issues (Institute for Health Policy Solutions)
Value Judgment: Helping Health Care Consumers Use Quality and Cost Information (California Health Care Foundation)
Getting to "Yes" on Medicaid Expansions
PowerPoint: Mounting a Winning State Political Campaign (Gordon Bonnyman, Tennessee Justice Center)10 Reasons the Medicaid Expansion Helps to Address Health Disparities (National Health Law Program)
10 Reasons the Medicaid Expansion Is Good for Women (National Health Law Program)
Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: Experiences of Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Coverage (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Guidance on Analyzing and Estimating the Cost of Expanding Medicaid (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
How Will the Medicaid Expansion for Adults Impact Eligibility and Coverage? (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Implications of Medicaid Expansion Decisions on Private Coverage (American Academy of Actuaries)
Investing in Medicaid Contributes to Better Education (Families USA)
The Supreme Court Decision: What It Means for Medicaid (Families USA)
Medicaid Expansion Briefing: What's at Stake for States? (Alliance for Health Reform)
Medicaid Expansion Center, Resources from the States (Families USA)
Medicaid's Success: Good Care (Families USA)
Opting In to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who Are the Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Health Insurance Coverage? (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute)
Why a State's Health Insurers Should Support Expanding Medicaid (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
Health System Reform 101
PowerPoint: Sysem Reform 101: Making Health Care Better (Kim Bailey, Families USA)PowerPoint: Enhancing Healthcare Value: The Role of Measurement (Ann Greiner, National Quality Forum)
PowerPoint: Can Consumers Organize for Delivery Reform? (Brian Rosman, Health Care for All Massachusetts)
ABCs of Measurement (National Quality Forum)
Charting a Path for Health Care Payment Reform: Recommendations for the Field (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
A Decade of Health Care Cost Growth Has Wiped Out Real Income Gains for an Average US Family (Health Affairs)
Making Reform a Reality: Ways to Facilitate Better Healthcare Payment and Delivery Systems and Lower Healthcare Costs (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Payment Reform: 10 Patient Principles (Massachusetts Campaign for Better Care)
Starting on the Path to a High Performance Health System: Analysis of the Payment and System Reform Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Commonwealth Fund)
Summary of Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012 (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Fund)
Roundtable: Engaging Communities of Color in Implementing the Affordable Care Act
A Path Toward Health Equity: Strategies to Strengthen Community Advocacy (Community Catalyst)State Policymakers’ Guide for Advancing Health Equity through Health Reform Implementation (National Academy for State Health Policy)
Standing Out in the Crowd: How to Run an Issue-Based Campaign
PowerPoint: Standing Out in a Crowd: How to Run an Issue-Based Campaign (Rebecca Gould, Nebraska Appleseed)The Road to Enrollment: What Lies Ahead (Enroll America)
Dual Eligible Integration: A Status Report
Best Bets for Reducing Medicare Costs for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Assessing the Evidence (Kaiser Family Foundation)Dual Eligible Demonstration Projects: Top Ten Priorities for Consumer Advocates (Community Catalyst)
Ensuring Consumer Protection for Dual Eligibles in Integrated Models (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
Explaining the State Integrated Care and Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Memorandum of Understanding between CMS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Memorandum of Understanding between CMS and the State of Ohio (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Memorandum of Understanding between CMS and the State of Washington (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Ohio ICDS Consumer Advocates Advocacy Principles for Dual Eligible Integration Policy Initiatives (Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio)
Sign-On Letter about the Importance of Including an Independent Ombudsman in Each Duals Demonstration
Sign-On Letter Re: Ohio Demonstration Proposal for Medicaid-Medicare Enrollees
Help! I Need Somebody: Enrolling the Uninsured in Obamacare
PowerPoint: The Roles United Ways and 2-1-1s Can Play (Patrick McIntyre, United Way Worldwide)PowerPoint: Marketing, Navigation, and In-Person Assistance in California (Suzie Shupe, California Coverage and Health Initiatives)
Best Practices in Outreach and Enrollment for Health Centers (Enroll America)
Consumer Assistance in the Digital Age: New Tools to Help People Enroll in Medicaid, CHIP, and Exchanges (Maximizing Enrollment)
Countdown to 2014: Designing Navigator Programs to Meet the Needs of Consumers (Georgetown Center for Children and Families)
Designing Navigator Programs to Meet the Needs of Consumers: Duties and Competencies (Georgetown Center for Children and Families)
Fact Sheet: Navigator and In-Person Assistance Programs (Enroll America)
Filling in Gaps in Consumer Assistance: How Exchanges Can Use Assisters (Families USA)
Help Wanted: Preparing Navigators and Other Assisters to Meet Consumer Needs (Families USA)
The Importance of In-Person Assistance (Enroll America)
In-Person Assistance Resource Center (Enroll America)
Navigators: Guiding People through the Exchange (Community Catalyst)
Keeping Women in the Driver’s Seat: Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Services
PowerPoint: Colorado: Women's Health in the Broader Health Care Frame (Debra Judy, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative)PowerPoint: Developing Women-Friendly Health Insurance Exchanges (Lois Uttley, Raising Women's Voices NY)
Being a Woman Just Got a Little Easier: How the Affordable Care Act Benefits Women (Families USA)
Denying Coverage of Contraceptives Harms Women (National Women's Law Center)
Health Care Refusals: Undermining Quality Care for Women (National Health Law Program)
Removing Barriers to Medicaid-Funded Abortion: What Advocates Can Learn from the Pennsylvania Experience (Institute for Reproductive Health Access and Women's Law Project)
State Bans on Insurance Coverage of Abortion Endanger Women’s Health and Take Health Benefits Away from Women (National Women's Law Center)
Making Coverage Work for Low-Income People
PowerPoint: Medicaid Expansion Health Benefits: ABPs and EHBs (Leonardo Cuello, National Health Law Program)PowerPoint: Putting Patients at the Core in Maryland (Peter Beilenson, Evergreen Health Cooperative, Inc.)
Defining Essential Health Benefits: Key State Considerations (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Frequently Asked Questions on Essential Health Benefits Bulletin (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
State Medicaid Director Letter Re: Essential Health Benefits in the Medicaid Program (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Mobilizing Key Constituencies Online
PowerPoint: Online Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Allie Carter, Campaign for Community Change)A Path Toward Health Equity: Strategies to Strengthen Community Advocacy (Community Catalyst)
States Leading the Way: Multi-Payer System Reform Efforts
PowerPoint: Massachusetts Pursues Cost and Quality Reforms: Chapter 224 of 2012 (Alyssa Vangeli, Health Care for All Massachusetts)PowerPoint: Payment Reform in Arkansas: An Advocate's Perspective (Anna Strong, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families)
PowerPoint: Vermont Blueprint for Health: Multi-Payer Delivery System Reform (Craig Jones, Vermont Blueprint for Health)
Laying the Groundwork in States for Payment Reform and More Integrated Delivery (National Academy for State Health Policy)
A Multipayer Approach to Health Care Reform (United Hospital Fund)
State Innovation Models Initiative: Frequently Asked Questions (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Strategies for Building Diverse Coalitions
PowerPoint: Making Futures Bright for Ohio's Children (Sandy Oxley, Voices for Ohio's Children)Coalition Vision, Mission, and Goals (CoalitionsWork)
Expanding Medicaid in Missouri: The Right Thing to Do and the Smart Thing to Do (Missouri Medicaid Coalition)
Fact Sheet 1: Before You Build Your Coalition (CoalitionsWork)
Fact Sheet 2: Coalition Formation Stage (CoalitionsWork)
Fact Sheet 3: Coalition Implementation Stage (CoalitionsWork)
Fact Sheet 4: Coalition Maintenance Stage (CoalitionsWork)
Fact Sheet 5: Coalition Institutionalization Stage (CoalitionsWork)
Missouri Medicaid Coalition Model Commitment Letter: Coalition Organizations (CoalitionsWork)
Raise the Wage, Cap the Rate: An Economic Dignity Agenda for 2012 (Missouri Organizing Collaborative)
The View from the Mountaintop: Inspring Prophetic Leadership for Economic Justice (Communities Creating Opportunity)
Taming the Beast: Challenging Private Insurance Issues
PowerPoint: Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Balancing Coverage Improvements with Affordability (Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms)At Risk: Pre-Existing Conditions Could Affect 1 in 2 Americans: 129 Million People Could Be Denied Affordable Coverage without Health Reform (Department of Health and Human Services)
ERISA (B) Working Group (National Association of Insurance Commissioners)
A Family of Three Using the Online Single Streamlined Application (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Five Facts about Obamacare and Health Premiums (Washington Post)
Guideline Revisions to Stop Loss Insurance Model Act (National Association of Insurance Commissioners)
Health Reform: Help for Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions (Families USA)
Implementing the Affordable Care Act’s Insurance Reforms: Consumer Recommendations for Regulators and Lawmakers (National Association of Insurance Commissioners)
Incentives for Nondiscriminatory Wellness Programs in Group Health Plans; Proposed Rule (Department of Health and Human Services)
Individual Market Health Insurance Coverage Model Act (National Association of Insurance Commissioners)
An Individual Using the Online Single Streamlined Application (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Health Insurance Market Rules; Rate Review; Proposed Rule (Department of Health and Human Services)
A Potential Threat to the Affordable Care Act: Stop Loss Insurance (Community Catalyst)
PRA Announcement for Model Applications (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for SHOP Application for Employees (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for SHOP Application for Employers (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Small Firm Self-Insurance Under the Affordable Care Act (Commonwealth Fund)
State Data on Individual Market Guaranteed Issue (statehealthfacts.org)
Wellness Programs: Evaluating the Promises and Pitfalls (Families USA)
Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act: Effective Outreach Strategies
Flyer: Tax Credits for Small Employers (Small Business Majority)Flyer: Tax Credits for Small Employers-Spanish (Small Business Majority)
Flyer: Three Easy Steps-Spanish (Small Business Majority)
Health Tax Credit Radio Ad (Strategic Campaign Initiatives, Inc.)
Local and State Public Health Officials and Health Care Advocates Launch Calvert County Effort to Educate Small Business about Small Business Health Care Tax Credit (Health Care for All)
Small Business Outreach and Messaging Breakfast (Small Business Majority)
Small Business Tax Credit Campaign Report (Small Business Health Care Tax Credits)
Connecting Vulnerable Populations to Coverage
PowerPoint: Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for the ACA and Overcoming Barriers to Enrollment (Jenny Rejeske, National Immigration Law Center)PowerPoint: Best Practices in Connecting Vulnerable Populations to Coverage (Cassandra Caravello, Health Outreach Partners)
PowerPoint: Connecting Millions of Americans with Health Coverage: The 2013-2014 Challenge (Jessica Kendall, Enroll America)
PowerPoint: The Importance of Cultural Competency in Outreach Efforts to Vulnerable Populations (Mary Pearson, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services)
Connecting Eligible Immigrant Families to Health Coverage and Care: Key Lessons from Outreach and Enrollment Workers (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
How Are Immigrants Included in Health Care Reform? (National Immigration Law Center)
Immigrant–Friendly Health Coverage Outreach and Enrollment (National Immigration Law Center)
An Introduction to Health Literacy and Enrollment (Enroll America)
"Lawfully Present" Individuals Eligible under the Affordable Care Act (National Immigration Law Center)
Medicaid Coverage and Care for the Homeless Population: Key Lessons to Consider for the 2014 Medicaid Expansion (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Public Charge (National Immigration Law Center)
Sponsored Immigrants and Benefits (National Immigration Law Center)
The Uninsured: A Primer(Kaiser Family Foundation)
The Face-Off: Advanced Techniques for Media Interviews
Media Basics: Advanced Tools and Tips for Advocates (Families USA)Foundation Perspectives on Supporting Health Advocacy in 2013
Fundraising Resources (Families USA)Speaker Bios and Organizational Information
Medicaid and the Federal Budget
The 2013 New Year's Budget Deal and Medicaid: The Next Cliff (Families USA)Budget Timeline (Families USA)
Cutting Medicaid: Ineffective and Harmful (Families USA)
Deficit Reduction: Tell Your Legislators to Protect Medicaid (Families USA)
Talking Points: Medicaid and the Federal Deficit (Families USA)
To Republicans: Don't Balance the Budget through Medicaid Cuts (Families USA)
What's Wrong with Per Capita Caps in Medicaid? (Families USA)
Will Congress Throw Medicaid Off the Fiscal Cliff? (Families USA)
Putting Teeth into Benefits: Ensuring Dental Coverage Translates to Care
PowerPoint: Vermont Dental Health Care for All Coalition (Carlen Finn, Voices for Vermont's Children)PowerPoint: Dental Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act (Colin Reusch, Children's Dental Health Project)
PowerPoint: The Dental Therapist Project: Expanding Care to Every Community (Kristen Lessl, Community Catalyst)
A Costly Dental Destination: Hospital Care Means States Pay Dearly (Pew Center on the States)
Disparities in Child Access to Emergency Care for Acute Oral Injury (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Expanding the Dental Safety Net: A First Look at How Dental Therapists Can Help (Pew Center on the States)
Help Wanted: A Policy Makers Guide to New Dental Providers (Pew Center on the States)
Moving on the Oral Health Provisions in Health Reform: A Roadmap for Implementation (Children's Dental Health Project)
A Nation in Need of Dental Care (Families USA)
Two Kinds of Dental Shortages Fuel One Major Access Problem (Pew Center on the States)
Two Governments, One Exchange: The Federally Facilitated Exchange and Partnership Experience
Arizona's Health Insurance Exchange: Ingredients for Success and Affordability (Children's Action Alliance)Making Sure the Health Insurance Exchange Works for Arkansas Families (Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families)
Exchange Implementation: To Partner or Not to Partner (Families USA)
FFE Progress Fact Sheet (Department of Health and Human Services)
Frequently Asked Questions on Exchanges, Market Reforms, and Medicaid (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
General Guidance on Federally Facilitated Exchanges (Department of Health and Human Services)
Guidance on the State Partnership Exchange (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
State Responsibilities in a Partnership Exchange (Families USA)
A View from the Hill
Families USA's Medicaid Defense CenterHouse Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Budget Committee Website
Senate Finance Committee Website
What Is Truly Integrated Care? Lessons from Medicare and Medicaid
PowerPoint: Improving Care and Managing Costs for Consumers with Disabilities (Rob Restuccia, Commonwealth Care Alliance)PowerPoint: Integrated Care in NC: A Medical Home Approach (Tom Wroth, Community Care of North Carolina)
PowerPoint: Models that Work for Dual Eligibles Needing Long Term Services and Supports: PACE (Peter Fitzgerald, National PACE Association)
Best Bets for Reducing Medicare Costs for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Assessing the Evidence (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Best Practices for Meaningful Consumer Input in New Health Care Delivery Models (Community Catalyst)
Quality, Improved Health, and Cost-Effectiveness Outcomes in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (National PACE Association)
Structuring New Service Delivery Models for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Developing Messages and Outreach Strategies for Women, Low-Income Groups, and Minorities
PowerPoint: Utilizing a Racial Equity Frame in Your Outreach Plans (Carla Saporta, Greenlining Institute)Emerging Trends in Long-Term Supports and Services
PowerPoint: Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Putting Consumers First (Alice Dembner, Community Catalyst)A Blueprint for Advocates: Recommended Next Steps to Advance California’s Implementation of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead Decision (Californians for Olmstead)
Avenues for Consumer Engagement to Shape Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (Community Catalyst)
Balancing Incentive Program: Strengthening Medicaid Community-Based Long-Term Services and Supports (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Evaluating Managed Long-Term Care Proposals in Your State: Key Areas for Advocacy (Families USA)
Identifying and Selecting Long-Term Services and Supports Outcome Measures (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and National Senior Citizens Law Center)
Long-Term Services and Supports: Beneficiary Protections in a Managed Care Environment (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and National Senior Citizens Law Center)
Long-Term Services and Supports Principles (Disability Rights California)
Managed Long-Term Care in Medicaid: What Advocates Need to Know (Families USA)
Medicaid Long Term Services & Supports 101: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
On the Verge: The Transformation of Long Term Services and Supports (AARP)
Profiles of State Innovation: Roadmap for Rebalancing Long-Term Supports and Services (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Putting Consumers First Promising Practices for Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (Community Catalyst)
Shaping Medicaid Managed Care Expansions to Better Serve Consumers (Community Catalyst)
State Trends and Innovations in Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Making Pro-Consumer Exchange Implementation Happen
SHOP (Small Business Health Options Program): Exchange Coverage for Employees of Small Businesses (New Hampshire Voices for Health)Why We Need a Health Insurance Exchange (Families USA)
The Medicaid Upgrade: Eligibility Changes for 2014
PowerPoint: The Medicaid Upgrade: Eligibility and Enrollment Changes for 2014 (Tricia Brooks, Georgetown Center for Children and Families)Eligibility and Enrollment Systems: An Advocate's IT Toolkit (Center for Children and Families)
A Family of Three Using the Online Single Streamlined Application (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Fulfilling the Promise of 2013: Aligning and Simplifying Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment for Children and Parents (Center for Children and Families)
Implementing Eligibility Changes under the Affordable Care Act: Issues Facing State Medicaid and CHIP Programs (State Health Access Data Assistance Center)
An Individual Using the Online Single Streamlined Application (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
The Medicaid Upgrade: Required and Optional Medicaid Eligibility Changes for 2014 (Families USA)
Paving an Enrollment Superhighway: Bridging State Gaps Between 2014 and Today (National Academy for State Health Policy)
PRA Announcement for Model Applications (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for SHOP Application for Employees (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
PRA Announcement for SHOP Application for Employers (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Using Electronic Data to Make Enrollment Easier: A Closer Look at Utah's eFind System (Enroll America)
Preparing for Premium Credit Counseling Challenges
PowerPoint: Premium Credit Counseling Challenges (Tara Straw, Health Care for America Now)PowerPoint: Premium Credit Counseling Challenges (Cheryl Fish-Parcham, Families USA)
About the Taxpayer Advocate Service (Taxpayer Advocate Service)
Filling in Gaps in Consumer Assistance: How Exchanges Can Use Assisters (Families USA)
Final Regulation: Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit (Internal Revenue Service)
Help Wanted: Preparing Navigators and Other Assisters to Meet Consumer Needs (Families USA)
In-Person Assistance Resources (Enroll America)
IRS VITA/TCE Volunteer Resource Guide (Internal Revenue Service; see pages 25-27 and 33-37)
Low-Income Taxpayer Clinics (Internal Revenue Service)
Making the Affordable Care Act Work for New York's Consumers (Community Service Society)
Navigator and In-Person Assistance Programs (Enroll America)
Tax Collection and Payment Alternatives (Taxpayer Advocate Service)
Story Bank Strategies
PowerPoint: Online Storybanking (Justin Kolikof, Families USA)PowerPoint: Story Telling in Florida (Ryan Morris, Florida CHAIN)
Media Basics: Story Banking (Families USA)
Sharing across the States: Strategies for Story Banking (Families USA)
Building the Evidence Base
PowerPoint: Building the Evidence Base: PCOR in the Community (Susan Hildebrandt, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute)PowerPoint: Building the Evidence Base: AHRQ Effective Health Care Program (Jean Slutsky, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
AHRQ Effective Health Care Program (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
EHC Program Research Summaries for Consumers, Clinicians, and Policymakers (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
Getting to "Yes" on Medicaid Expansions
PowerPoint: Mounting a Winning State Political Campaign (Gordon Bonnyman, Tennessee Justice Center)10 Reasons the Medicaid Expansion Helps to Address Health Disparities (National Health Law Program)
10 Reasons the Medicaid Expansion Is Good for Women (National Health Law Program)
Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: Experiences of Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Coverage (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Guidance on Analyzing and Estimating the Cost of Expanding Medicaid (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
How Will the Medicaid Expansion for Adults Impact Eligibility and Coverage? (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Implications of Medicaid Expansion Decisions on Private Coverage (American Academy of Actuaries)
Investing in Medicaid Contributes to Better Education (Families USA)
The Supreme Court Decision: What It Means for Medicaid (Families USA)
Medicaid Expansion Briefing: What's at Stake for States? (Alliance for Health Reform)
Medicaid Expansion Center, Resources from the States (Families USA)
Medicaid's Success: Good Care (Families USA)
Opting In to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who Are the Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Health Insurance Coverage? (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute)
Why a State's Health Insurers Should Support Expanding Medicaid (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
Making Pro-Consumer Exchange Implementation Happen
Why We Need a Health Insurance Exchange (Families USA)Medicare and the Federal Budget
PowerPoint: Medicare and the Budget Debate (Paul Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)PowerPoint: Medicare and the Federal Budget: Reform Proposals (David Lipschutz, Center for Medicare Advocacy) Medicare Spending and Financing (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Re-Aligning the Safety Net
PowerPoint: Financial Assistance for the Underinsured (Bill Rencher, Georgia Watch)501(c)(3) Hospitals: Proposed IRS Rules under § 9007 of the Affordable Care Act (Congressional Research Service)
The Campaign for America's Health Centers (National Association of Community Health Centers)
Community Benefits: Protect Consumers and Strengthen Dialogue between Hospitals and Communities (Community Catalyst)
‘Doc Fix’ In ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Plan Cuts Medicare Hospital Payments (Kaiser Health News)
Essential Community Providers (Health Reform GPS)
Essential Community Provider Definition (California Primary Care Association)
Hospital Financial Assitance/Charity Care (Community Health Advocates)
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Safety Net (Academy Health)
Incentivizing Patient Financial Assistance: How to Fix New York's Hospital Indigent Care Program (Community Service Sociey)
New Requirements for 501(c)(3) Hospitals Under the Affordable Care Act (Internal Revenue Service)
Potential Roles for Safety Net Providers in Supporting Continuity across Medicaid and Health Insurance Exchanges (National Academy for State Health Policy)
Protecting Consumers, Encouraging Community Dialogue: Reform’s New Requirements for Non-Profit Hospitals (Community Catalyst)
Q & A: Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments and the Medicaid Expansion (National Health Law Program)
Summary of Proposed Rules for Non-Profit Hospitals’ Financial Assistance, Billing, and Collection Practices (Community Catalyst)
Will We Need the Safety Net after Reform? (Commonwealth Fund)
System Change in Medicaid: Health Homes, Advanced Managed Care, and ACOs
PowerPoint: Delivery System Change Through Coordinated Care Organizations_ (Janet Bauer, Oregon Center for Public Policy)PowerPoint: Missouri Health Home Collaborative (Susan Hinck, Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance)
PowerPoint: System Change in Medicaid (Sarah Bagge, Families USA)
Accountable Care Organizations: Creating a Workable Approach for Medicaid (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Accountable Care Organizations in Medicaid: Emerging Practices to Guide Program Design (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Advancing Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: A Learning Collaborative (Center for Health Care Strategies)
A Closer Look at ACOs (Families USA)
Core Considerations for Implementing Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations (Center for Health Care Strategies)
Developing and Implementing the Section 2703 Health Home State Option: State Strategies to Address Key Issues (National Academy for State Health Policy)
Emerging Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: The Role of Managed Care (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)
Health Homes in Medicaid: Challenges and Opportunities for Advocates (Families USA)
High-Performance Health Care for Vulnerable Populations: A Policy Framework for Promoting Accountable Care in Medicaid (Commonwealth Fund)
Medicaid Health Homes: A New State Option Can Improve Patient Care, Save Money, and Capture Additional Federal Dollars (Community Catalyst)
State-by-State Health Home State Plan Amendment Matrix: Summary Overview (Integrated Care Resource Center)
State Medicaid Director Letter Re: Policy Considerations for Integrated Care Models (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
