The National Collaborative for Integration of Health & Human Services welcomes you to its weekly update email.
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National Collaborative for Integration of Health & Human Services welcomes you to its weekly update email. Our updates highlight recent and upcoming events, policy activities, and announcements released in the sphere of health and human service integration.
Virginia Medicaid Looks to Implement Community Engagement
Virginia requests an extension to the 1115 demonstration Virginia GAP ARTS Delivery System Transformation, renamed, Virginia COMPASS: Creating Opportunities for Medicaid Participants to Achieve Self-Sufficiency. The application requests to extend the current demonstration as well as implement a community engagement program for eligible adult populations. Beneficiaries will initially be required to work 20 hours per month, increasing to 80 hours per month after one year.
Nebraska SUD Demonstration
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services submitted an initial request to the Medicaid Coverage for the NE Substance Use Disorder section 1115 demonstration. One of the requests proposes a waiver of the 15-day monthly maximum on Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Institute for Mental Disease (IMD) utilization for members ages 21-64.
HHS
(U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
Request for Information - Modifying HIPAA Rules To Improve Coordinated Care
This Request for Information (RFI) was issued today, to assist in identifying provisions of HIPAA privacy and security regulations that may impede the transformation to value-based health care or that limit or discourage coordinated care among individuals and covered entities (including hospitals, physicians, and other providers, payors, and insurers), without meaningfully contributing to the protection of the privacy or security of individuals’ protected health information.
CMS’s Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP) will host a national webinar for state Medicaid agencies interested in learning about state Medicaid approaches and experiences in developing public-facing and internal dashboards.
