The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO) is pleased to announce the following updates
- Training Opportunities:
- Delivering Dementia Capable Care within Health Plans: Why and How?
- Promising Practices for Supporting Dually Eligible Older Adults with Complex Pain Needs
- Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients over Paperwork Request for Information
- New Tip Sheet: Alignment of Medicare Savings Program Eligibility with the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program
- New Evaluation Reports for Demonstrations under the Financial Alignment Initiative: Texas and Massachusetts
Training Opportunity: Delivering Dementia Capable Care Within Health Plans: Why and How?
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 19, 12:00-1:30PM (EDT)
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia, affects an estimated 5.8 million Americans, is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., and is a leading cause of disability and poor health for older adults . This webinar presents information on ongoing work and achieved outcomes for two states participating in the Financial Alignment Initiative. State agencies, health plans, and community organizations in California and Texas collaborate within the framework of these demonstrations to improve care while controlling costs for enrollees with dementia, which account for an estimated 25 percent of their participating beneficiaries. Presenters will share strategies and tools for the delivery of dementia capable care, as well as tips for leveraging resources within federal, state and local environments to build more responsive systems of care delivery.
Intended audience: This webinar is intended for a wide range of stakeholders – includes health plan leaders, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, caregivers, and organizations that provide services for dually eligible beneficiaries including managed long-term services and supports programs and consumer organizations.
CE information: Please see the registration link above for detailed information on continuing education opportunities with this training.
Training Opportunity: Promising Practices for Supporting Dually Eligible Older Adults with Complex Pain Needs
Date/Time: Thursday June 27, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM (EDT)
This interactive webinar will discuss the common causes and types of pain among dually eligible older adults, identify promising practices for biopsychosocial pain management, and demonstrate practical strategies for conducting geriatric pain assessments, delivering evidence-based treatment interventions, and supporting older adults in achieving their pain management and wellness goals. Older adults who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid have higher rates of chronic pain than adults with all other types of coverage . Speakers will also discuss appropriate use of opioids and strategies to help older adults with opioid use disorder effectively manage chronic pain.
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Intended Audience: This webinar is intended for a wide range of stakeholders – front-line staff at social service agencies, providers and health care professionals (such as physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, certified prevention specialists, case managers, addiction counselors), MMPs, D-SNPs, managed long-term services and supports programs, and consumer organizations.
CE information: Please see the registration link above for detailed information on continuing education opportunities with this training.
Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients over Paperwork Request for Information
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking new ideas from the public on how to continue the progress of the Patients over Paperwork initiative. The RFI on Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients over Paperwork invites patients and their families, the medical community, and other healthcare stakeholders to recommend further changes to rules, policies, and procedures that would shift more of clinicians’ time and our healthcare system’s resources from needless paperwork to high-quality care that improves patient health.
Among other topics in this RFI, CMS solicits new ideas in several areas related to better care for dually eligible individuals, including:
- Aligning Medicare, Medicaid and other payer coding, payment and documentation requirements and processes;
- Clarifying or simplifying regulations or operations that pose challenges for beneficiaries dually enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid and those who care for such beneficiaries; and
- Simplifying beneficiary enrollment and eligibility determination across programs.
The RFI on Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients over Paperwork is posted in the Federal Register at: https://www.federalregister.
The comment period closes on August 12, 2019.
More information on the Patients over Paperwork initiative is available at: https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/
Tip Sheet: Alignment of Medicare Savings Program Eligibility with the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program
To help states understand one option to streamline and improve Medicare Savings Program (MSP) eligibility determination processes for eligible beneficiaries, the Integrated Care Resource Center developed a tip sheet, Modernizing Medicare Savings Programs to Better Serve Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Alignment of MSP Eligibility with the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program. The tip sheet describes ways states can align MSP eligibility criteria with those used for the Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) program to facilitate the use of LIS eligibility data in determining eligibility for MSPs. The tip sheet is available at: https://www.
New Evaluation Reports for Demonstrations under the Financial Alignment Initiative
Additional evaluation reports for two demonstrations under the Medicare-Medicaid Financial Alignment Initiative: the first evaluation report for the demonstration in Texas and the second and third evaluation reports for the demonstration in Massachusetts. The reports are available on the MMCO website at: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-
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