What are the leadership initiatives that top Medicaid leaders from states and health plans are deploying to truly make a difference?

Building upon the phenomenal 14-year success of our annual “Medicaid Innovations Forum” every February, Strategic Solutions Network is proud to announce a new event focusing on Medicaid Leadership initiatives that are transforming the care landscape.

Medicaid Leadership Innovation Strategies, July 22-24, 2024, in Washington, DC, is designed to showcase game-changing Medicaid leadership initiatives from state agencies and health plans with first-hand insights from top executives at these organizations.

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The conference will explore how Medicaid leaders throughout the country are setting strategy, truly innovating through the use of 1115 waivers, and making the most of CMS policy to enhance access, manage the end of continuous enrollment, address health related social needs, and improve outcomes…all through the lens of health equity.
Specifically, it will focus on:

    UNWINDING AND REDETERMINATION

  • Managing the Unwinding of the Continuous Coverage Requirement: Leveraging Innovative Technologies and Workflows to Manage High Volumes of Redetermination
  • Mitigating Coverage Losses by Simplifying the Process for Enrollees and Advancing Racial Equity by Keeping People Enrolled
  • Reducing Administrative Churning: Avoiding Procedural Disenrollment of Those Retaining Eligibility, Especially Children and People of Color
  • Facilitating the Transition to the Marketplace: Reducing the Number of People Who Lose Coverage through Conducting Outreach, Education, and Enrollment Assistance
  • Evaluating The Financial Impact of the Wind Down on the Solvency of Community Plans
  • Phasing Down the Enhanced FMAP: Returning to Traditional Funding Levels and Operations and the Financial Impact for State Budgets
  • Ensuring Continuous Eligibility for Children for Multiple Years: Birth to Six Coverage Regardless of Changes in Household Income

    • HEALTH RELATED SOCIAL NEEDS/SDoH

  • Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care
  • Funding Non-Traditional Services to Help Enrollees Maintain Coverage and Improve Outcomes
  • Leveraging 1115 Waivers to Expand Strategies that Address Social Needs
  • Connecting Social Needs Interventions to Advancing Equity
  • Leveraging ILOS to reduce health disparities and address unmet health-related social needs
  • Identifying and Addressing SDoH Needs: Assessing the Food, Housing, and Transportation Needs of Patient Populations
  • Coordinating with Community-Based Organizations to Ensure Referrals to Social Services and Support

    • HEALTH EQUITY

  • Linking Financial Quality Incentives to Performance Goals that Advance Health Equity
  • Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities: Identifying and Removing Barriers to Care and Improving Outreach to Underserved Populations
  • Screening For and Mitigating Implicit Bias in Care Delivery Models to Ensure More Equitable, High-Quality Care

    • CARE COORDINATION

  • Leveraging Data to Identify High-Need, High-Cost Patients and Developing Patient-Centered Care Strategies for Those Individuals
  • Mitigating the Maternal Health Crisis through Medicaid: Extending Postpartum Coverage and Increasing Access to High Quality Maternal Health Services
  • Improving Quality of Care and Health Equity for Dual Eligibles: Developing Integrated Models that Address the Complex Needs of This Population
  • Telehealth and Other Digital Health Modalities: Developing Expansions and Guardrails to Maintain Access as Waivers Reach Their End
  • LTSS: Using HCBS Relative to Institutional Care, Developing Quality Measures for LTSS, and Increasing Delivery of LTSS Through Managed Care

    • BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

  • Leveraging Telehealth to Facilitate and Expand Access to Behavioral Health
  • Developing a Value-Based Behavioral Model to Advance Integrated Care Delivery
  • Bolstering the Behavioral Health Workforce: Increasing Reimbursement Rates, Reducing Administrative Burdens, and Improving Access to Care
  • Building a System of Comprehensive Substance Use Care for Low Income People through Medicaid
  • Measuring the Effectiveness of OUD Treatment Systems

2023 ALL-STAR SPEAKERS
CareFirst Community Health Plan of Maryland

Mike Rapach

CEO
North Carolina Medicaid

Shannon Dowler, MD, FAAFP, CPE

Chief Medical Officer
AmeriHealth Caritas DC

Karen Dale, RN, MSN

CEO
Colorado Health Care Policy and Finance Office

Ralph Choate

Chief Operations Officer
CareSource

Cameual Wright, M.D., MBA

Vice President, Market Chief Medical Officer, Indiana Market
Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

Adrienne Tyler Fegans

Deputy Director, Programs and Operations
MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid and CHIP)

Ryan Schwarz, MD, MBA

Chief, Office of Payment and Care Delivery Innovation
UCare

Jon Hamdorf

Former Kansas Medicaid Director, Market President
Elevance Health

Merrill Friedman

Regional Vice President, Inclusive Policy & Advocacy
Sentara Health Plans

Robert Krebbs

Vice President, Value Based Care & Provider Enablement
Trillium Health Resources

Cindy Ehlers, MS, LCMHC

Chief Operations Officer
Genesee Health Plan

Jim Milanowski

CEO
Health Plan of San Mateo

Chris Esguerra

Chief Medical Officer
Health Share of Oregon

Cat Livingston, MD, MPH

Medical Director
Health Share of Oregon

Christine Bernsten

Director of Strategic Initiatives and Communications
District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance

Deniz Soyer, MBA, MPH

Division Director, Digital Health, Health Care Reform & Innovation Administration
District of Columbia, Department of Health Care Finance

Katherine Rogers

Director, Long-Term Care Administration
District of Columbia Department of Healthcare Finance

Jennifer Joyce, LICSW, MBA

Behavioral Health Coordinator
Mostly Medicaid

Kris Vilamaa

Partner and Chief Growth Officer
Maven Clinic

Dawn Godbolt, Ph.D.

Director of Health Equity
K. Scott Concepts

Kalin Scott

Principal
Faegre Drinker Consulting

Kacey Dugan

Director
Alliance of Community Health Plans

Michael Bagel

Associate Vice President of Public Policy
Mental Health Systems

Steven Girardeau, Psy.D.

Director of Clinical Services
Evernorth Health Services

Amy Aldighere

Vice President, Retiree Markets Solutions
Transdev

Derek Fretheim

Senior Director, Innovation
Transdev

Stephanie Boschenreither

Director, National Operations
Clearlink Partners

Angela Smith-Hietikko

Executive Consultant, Behavioral Health Practice
Scene Health

Sebastian Seiguer, JD, MBA

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Transdev

Mike Sears

Vice President, Business Development—NEMT
2023 PARTNERS
Educational Underwriter
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
Supporting Organizations
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
Association Partner
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
Media Partner
  • Strategic Solutions Network (SSN), based in Boca Raton, FL, is the parent company of the Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Management, Plus Quality and Star Ratings and a series of related conferences.
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