Publication: Support Caregiving Resource Guide: Managed Care Plans

Title: Support Caregiving Resource Guide: Managed Care Plans Publication date: September 2023 LTQA, in partnership with the National MLTSS Health Plan Association, developed a resource that highlights promising strategies for managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) plans to support family caregivers. This resource and others live on SupportCaregiving.org, a new site that supports the implementation of the first-of-its-kind National Strategy to Support Family … Read More

Blog: How MLTSS States and Health Plans Can Advance Health Equity

Title: How MLTSS States and Health Plans Can Advance Health Equity Author: Grace Hong, G. Lawrence Atkins LTSS Policy and Research Fellow Publication date: August 2023 14 million older adults and people with disabilities rely on long-term services and supports (LTSS), which help them perform daily activities such as bathing and managing medications. In the U.S., Medicaid pays for over 50% of these services, and … Read More

Blog: Opportunities to Improve Supplemental Benefit Data

Title: Heeding the Administrator’s Call: Opportunities to Improve Supplemental Benefit Data Publication Date: July 2023 CMS is proposing to collect data from MA organizations on the specific benefits they offer, the number of members who use the benefit, how often they use the benefit, and how much money the plan spends on members who use the benefit. Building on our years-long … Read More

Webinar: Advancing Equity through MLTSS Programs

Event Date: July 12, 2-3 pm ET On July 12, LTQA, ADvancing States, and Impact 120 held an interactive discussion on advancing equity in LTSS, based on the recently published issue brief. Many consumers who require LTSS through Medicaid experience barriers in achieving their highest quality of life, due to the intersectional impact of disability and age, when combined with race, ethnicity, … Read More

Blog: Creating a New Model to Measure the Need for LTSS Supports Among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities

Title: Creating a New Model to Measure the Need for Long-Term Services and Supports Among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities Publication Date: July 2023 Federal and state policymakers lack critical data on the need for LTSS among working-age adults with disabilities, which will be critical to their ability to plan and provide for the growing need. LTQA has been leading a multi-year effort to … Read More

Member Roundtable: Medicaid Access Rule

Event Date: June 15, 1-2pm ET LTQA held a Member Roundtable on June 15 from 1-2pm ET focused on the Medicaid Access Rule. On May 3, 2023, CMS released a proposed rule to improve access to care, quality, and health outcomes, and better address health equity issues in the Medicaid program (“Medicaid Access Rule”). A substantive portion of this proposed rule focuses … Read More

Announcement: Welcoming Our Inaugural Atkins Fellow, Grace Hong

We are pleased to welcome our inaugural Atkins Fellow, Grace Hong! Grace Hong is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stanford University. Over the last three years, she has worked with the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team to … Read More

Comments: Medicare Advantage Reporting Requirements

Publication Date: May 2023 LTQA has submitted comments on CMS’ proposal to revise Part C Medicare Advantage Reporting Requirements to require annual submission of data on the utilization and cost of supplemental benefits. We strongly support the proposal to require Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) to submit data to CMS annually on the utilization and cost of supplemental benefits, which is … Read More