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Collaborating for Success in Medicaid Transformation
Jennifer Snow, Director of Public Policy, NAMI NAMI NC Conference October 12, 2018
Outline
• Medicaid Overview – Eligibility – Benefits – Service Delivery – Demonstration Waivers
• Integrated Care • North Carolina’s Demonstration Waiver
Medicaid Plays a Critical Role in our Health Care System
Health Insurance Coverage For 1 in 5 Americans
State Capacity to Address Health Challenges
MEDICAID
Support for Health Care System and Safety-Net
Assistance to 10 million Medicare Beneficiaries
> 50% Long-Term Care Financing
Source: KFF
Medicaid Flexibilities
• Effectively 56 different Medicaid programs (50 states, 5 territories and DC)
• States establish their own – Eligibility standards – Benefit packages – Service delivery – Administrative structures
• Demonstrations allow additional flexibilities
Medicaid Eligibility
• Populations – Children – Pregnant Women – People with Disabilities – People over age 65
• Financial Criteria • Medicaid expansion
North Carolina Medicaid Eligibility
210 196
133
73
44 44
24 0 0
50
100
150
200
250
Infants underage 5
Pregnantwomen
Children aged6-18
SSI Recipients Parents Young adults19-20
MedicallyNeedy Spend
Down
Other adults
Percentage of Poverty Level
Medicaid Eligibility
• Before ACA, only certain low-income people qualified for Medicaid
• ACA required states to expand coverage to those not previously eligible for Medicaid; Supreme court decision made expansion optional
Expansion
33 states + DC have adopted Medicaid expansion Over 15 million people became insured as a result
*Maine and Virginia have adopted the Medicaid expansion but it has not yet taken effect.
Expanded Medicaid
Medicaid expansion landscape
Expanded Medicaid Not expanded
17 states have not expanded Medicaid 1.9 million uninsured people with a mental health or substance use condition live in
states that has not yet expanded Medicaid
Medicaid expansion landscape
Expanded Medicaid Considering Expansion Not expanded
3 more states considering expansion through ballot initiative
Medicaid expansion landscape
Medicaid Benefits Mandatory • Inpatient hospital services • Outpatient hospital services • Nursing Facility Services • Home health services • Physician services • Rural health clinic services • Federally qualified health center services • Laboratory and X-ray services • Family planning services • Nurse Midwife services • Nurse Practitioner services • Freestanding Birth Center services • Transportation to medical care • Tobacco cessation counseling for
pregnant women
Optional • Personal care services • Physical therapy services • Prescription drugs • Primary care case management
services • Other diagnostic, screening,
preventive, and rehabilitative services • Home and community based services • Inpatient hospital and nursing facility
services for individuals age 65 or older in institutions for mental diseases
• Inpatient psychiatric services for individuals under age 21
• Targeted case management services • Occupational therapy services
Service Delivery
• Fee-For-Service (FFS) – the state pays providers directly for each covered
service received by a Medicaid beneficiary. • Managed care plans
– the state pays a fee to a managed care plan for each person enrolled in the plan. In turn, the plan pays providers.
• Comprehensive-risk based managed care • Primary care case management (PCCM) • Limited-benefit plans
Figure 13
SOURCE: Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Report, Summary Statistics as of July 1, 2015, CMS, 2017.
Two-thirds of all Medicaid beneficiaries receive their care in comprehensive risk-based MCOs.
WY
WI
WV
WA
VA
VT
UT
TX
TN
SD
SC
RI PA
OR
OK
OH
ND
NC
NY
NM
NJ
NH
NV NE
MT
MO
MS
MN
MI MA
MD
ME
LA
KY KS
IA IN IL
ID
HI
GA
FL
DC
DE
CT
CO
CA
AR AZ
AK
AL
U.S. Overall = 65%
Share of Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in risk-based managed care plans
>0-50% (13 states) 0% (5 states)
51-80% (20 states, including DC) >80% (13 states)
Medicaid Demonstrations • Section 1115 demonstration waivers allow Secretary to
grant flexibility • “Likely to assist in promoting the objectives of the
Medicaid program” • Each Administration has some discretion over which
waivers to approve and encourage • Currently 44 waivers approved in 37 states • Many waivers expand services or coverage, like:
– ACA expansion waivers – Behavioral health services enhancements – Delivery system reform waivers – Managed long-term services and supports – Other targeted waivers (i.e., Flint, MI water crisis; HIV-AIDS, foster care children)
Benefits of Integrated Care
Triple Aim: • Improving the health of
populations, • Enhancing the
experience of care for individuals, and
• Reducing the per capita cost of health care
NC’s Medicaid Demonstration • Transition to Managed Care • Strengthening workforce • Telemedicine • Focus on those with behavioral health needs
– Tailored Plans (in Years 3-4) – Integrated physical, behavioral health and pharmacy
services to those with SMI, SED and SUD. – Intensive community-based care management – Specialized care managers – Specialized clinical supervisions
• IMD waiver request
Questions?
Thank you.
Jennifer Snow Director of Public Policy, NAMI
[email protected] 703-516-7981 www.nami.org