This week, our In Focus highlights a new report prepared by Health Management Associates (HMA) on the potential for Medicaid Managed Care to enable states to address social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity above and beyond what’s possible with traditional fee-for-service models. The report was released by Together for Better Medicaid, a coalition committed to building a better Medicaid system across the country.
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Former DoD Health Official Joins HMA
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Tom McCaffery has joined the Health Management Associates (HMA) team of expert healthcare consultants. McCaffery joins the national healthcare consulting firm as a principal in its Washington, D.C. office after serving as the senior civilian leader in the Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health System (MHS).
National Council for Mental Wellbeing and HMA have partnered to create a three-part series that examines behavioral health workforce crisis
As demand for behavioral health services continues to grow, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, staffing and workforce capacity to deliver services has not kept up with demand. In a three-part series of issue briefs, colleagues from Health Management Associates (HMA) and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing (the National Council) offer immediate steps states can take to increase capacity and build a more stable workforce.
The first brief in the series focuses on Policy, Financial Strategies and Regulatory Waivers, and outlines solutions that can be implemented quickly to reduce administrative burden and maximize existing provider resources.
Several HMA and the National Council colleagues, contributed to the briefs and surrounding research.
Health Management Associates Acquires Wakely Consulting Group
Today, Jay Rosen, founder, president, and co-chairman of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the firm’s acquisition of Wakely Consulting Group (Wakely).
Health Management Associates Acquires Wilson Strategic
State of Reform™ to Continue Independent Convening of Healthcare and Health Policy Leaders
Today, Jay Rosen, founder, president, and co-chairman of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the firm’s acquisition of Wilson Strategic, a Washington state-based company that operates State of Reform™ health policy conferences.HMA Partners with the National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives
Health Management Associates (HMA), a leading independent, national research, and consulting firm specializing in publicly funded healthcare and human services, is pleased to announce its partnership with, and corporate sponsorship of, the National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives (NALHE).
Webinar Replay: Leveraging Your SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Center Grant
This webinar, held on August 18, 2021, was the ninth webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
Winning a SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) grant is just the beginning. Now the real work beings. During this webinar, SAMHSA grant experts and a previous grant winner provided a step-by-step guide to implementing and leveraging CCBHC grants for maximum results. Speakers addressed the key steps to achieving CCBHC certification, meeting SAMHSA grantee requirements, and strategically building toward sustainability beyond the two-year grant period.
Learning Objectives
- Learn what makes the CCBHC grant opportunity unique.
- Understand the activities and processes needed to help ensure a successful implementation.
- Find out how to develop strategies that support long-term sustainability.
- Obtain case studies and lessons learned from a previous CCBHC grantee.
Speakers:
Heidi Arthur, Principal, HMA, New York, NY
Kristan McIntosh, Senior Consultant, HMA, New York, NY
Melissa Jillson, Senior Director, Liberty Resources Inc., Syracuse, NY
Liz Krell, Assistant Director of Process Optimization, Liberty Resources Inc., Syracuse, NY
Webinar Replay: Improving Child Welfare Outcomes: Role of Behavioral Health and Child Welfare in Strengthening Families, Building Resilience, and Increasing Protective Factors
This webinar was held on July 20, 2021, was the eighth webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
This eighth session featured HMA behavioral health, child welfare and Medicaid experts primed to specifically discuss strategies across child welfare and behavioral health to enhance family engagement and collaboration in increasing protective factors and family resilience.
Learning Objectives
- Learn options for designing policies and implementing infrastructure that support a multisystem response facilitating family engagement and improving protective factors.
- Learn about other successful state models for prevention and building family resilience.
- Learn key benchmarks for successful engagement and empowerment that can be incorporated into QI programs.
- Introduce and engage in dynamic discussion on the importance of the intersection of race equity, social justice, cultural humility, and responsiveness with family centered/multi-generational practice in addressing inequities.
Speakers
Doris Tolliver, JD, Principal, HMA
Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA, Managing Principal, HMA
Susan Smith, Data Advocates, LLC
Annalisa Baker, MPH, LCSW, Senior Consultant, HMA
Health Management Associates Acquires The Moran Company
Today, Jay Rosen, founder and president of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the firm’s acquisition of The Moran Company, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare research and consulting firm.
Webinar Replay: Value Propositions and Roadmaps for Integrating Children’s Behavioral Health and Medicaid with Child Welfare Systems
This held on July 15, 2021, was the seventh webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
The success of the delivery of state and local child welfare systems is predicated on a strong collaboration across child welfare, children’s behavioral health and Medicaid, building a multigenerational, multisystem response to the problem of child maltreatment. During this webinar, HMA behavioral health, child welfare and Medicaid experts broke down what’s needed to get the integration process started, including a practical approach to workflows as well as an understanding of the touchpoints where integration efforts are likely to have their biggest payoff.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how child welfare services departments currently interact with the behavioral health service continuum.
- Learn how to build value by identifying areas where the intersection of child welfare, Medicaid and children’s behavioral health helps improve outcomes and mitigate risk.
- Identify potential barriers to integration efforts.
- Learn how other states have applied solutions and strategies aimed at better integrating child welfare systems, Medicaid, and children’s behavioral health.
- Learn about financing infrastructures that support meaningful whole family approaches to improving protective factors and strengthening family resilience.
HMA Speakers:
Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA, Managing Principal, Washington, DC
Annalisa Baker, MPH, LCSW, Senior Consultant, New York, NY
Caitlin Thomas-Henkel, MSW, Principal, Philadelphia, PA
Heidi Arthur, MSW, Principal, New York, NY
Health Management Associates Acquires Edrington Health Consulting
Today, Jay Rosen, founder and president of Health Management Associates (HMA), announced the firm’s acquisition of Edrington Health Consulting (EHC), an Arizona-based firm that specializes in providing actuarial and financial analyses to health plans, providers, and government agencies.
Webinar Replay: Advancing Health Justice for Medicaid Members with Disabilities, Including Those with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder
This webinar, held on June 25, 2021 and was the sixth webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.”
State Medicaid programs must address health disparities and advance health justice for members with disabilities – including those with mental illness and substance use disorder (SUD). Our presenters outlined the path forward in the 2021 report, Advancing Health Justice Using Medicaid Data: Key Lessons from Minnesota for the Nation, produced by AcademyHealth, Disability Policy Consortium (DPC), and Health Management Associates (HMA). During this webinar, speakers from DPC and HMA discussed how to measure health disparities, present the evidence on health disparities from one state’s Medicaid program, and discussed what federal and state policymakers can do to address health justice stemming from racial injustice, discrimination, bias, and stigma in our healthcare system.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what health justice and other related terms mean
- Learn how to measure health disparities affecting Medicaid members with disabilities – including those with mental illness and SUD
- Examine evidence on health disparities from one state Medicaid program’s efforts
- Consider the national implications of this evidence on Medicaid members
- Review what actions policymakers can take to advance health justice
Speakers
- Ellen Breslin, MPP. Principal, HMA, Boston, MA
- Dennis Heaphy, M.Div. M.Ed. MPH, Health Justice Policy Analyst, Disability Policy Consortium, Malden, MA
- Anissa Lambertino, PhD., Senior Consultant, HMA, Chicago, IL