With a focus on the needs of young people in detention and correctional facilities, a team of Health Management Associates (HMA) colleagues completed an in-depth assessment designed to guide future planning and decision making around mental health services for youth.
Nursing home report highlights benefits of single resident rooms
March 23, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted nursing home safety and infection control as critical public health issues. A new report authored by HMA colleagues found compelling evidence that single rooms in nursing homes have numerous benefits for both public health and residents’ experience. The authors conclude that transitioning from multi-resident rooms to single rooms should be a … Read More
Report examines Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits
January 13, 2021
The experts at Health Management Associates (HMA) have released Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefit Flexibilities: An Early Assessment of Adoption and Policy Opportunities for Expanded Access. The white paper examines the factors contributing to a Medicare Advantage plan’s decision to offer or not offer newly available supplemental benefits and opportunities and challenges with adoption and implementation. … Read More
Three HMA clinicians author naltrexone formulations in correctional settings issue brief
January 13, 2021
HMA’s Donna Strugar-Fritsch, Shannon Robinson, MD and Scott Haga, PA-C, recently authored the issue brief, Naltrexone Formulations in Correctional Settings. This brief provides clinical, financial, and administrative information prisons and jails can use in deciding whether to keep detainees on extended release naltrexone (XR-NTX, or the brand Vivitrol) or switch them to oral naltrexone tablets … Read More
HMA and Wakely Consulting Group, Inc. collaborate on states, Medicaid, and economic hard times report
January 7, 2021
Health Management Associates (HMA) and Wakely Consulting Group, Inc., collaborated to analyze, compile, and model data on Medicaid enrollment growth during the COVID-19 pandemic and develop projections under various recovery scenarios as well as analyze the potential impact of key variables on state Medicaid expenditures. The analysis examined two key questions, how much strain will … Read More
HMA prepares NCQA distinction in multicultural health care report
November 11, 2020
Health Management Associates (HMA) was engaged by Covered California to evaluate and make recommendations about whether the state’s Marketplace should require Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Issuers to gain National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Distinction in Multicultural Health Care. With a mission to increase insurance coverage in California and improve quality of care while reducing … Read More
HMA colleagues author evidence-based programs paper
October 30, 2020
Health Management Associates (HMA), in contract with The National Council on Aging (NCOA), and with support from the Administration for Community Living (ACL), recently provided research and strategy services to support the goal to increase the adoption of evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs, known as evidence-based programs (EBPs) by Medicaid, Medicare, and other … Read More
20th annual state Medicaid budget survey released
October 23, 2020
The 20th annual Medicaid Budget Survey conducted by The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and Health Management Associates (HMA) was released on October 14, 2020 and included two new reports: State Medicaid Programs Respond to Meet COVID-19 Challenges: Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 and Medicaid Enrollment & Spending Growth: … Read More
COVID-19 economic impact on health insurance September 2020
October 6, 2020
In April 2020, HMA released COVID-19 Impact on Medicaid, Marketplace, and the Uninsured, by State. Our experts assessed COVID-19’s potential impact on health insurance coverage for each state and forecasts Medicaid enrollment could increase by 11 to 23 million across all states over the next several months. The May 2020 updated analysis, HMA Updated Estimates of … Read More
HMA examines current state of Medicare-Medicaid integration programs
August 11, 2020
The experts at Health Management Associates (HMA) have released the Medicare-Medicaid Integration: Reflecting on Progress to Date and Charting the Path to Making Integrated Programs Available to all Dually Eligible Individuals issue brief and companion bibliography appendix, the second in a series of issue briefs examining Medicare-Medicaid integrated programs. Based on HMA’s review of the … Read More