This chart book summarizes demographic and Medicaid service and expenditure data for Marylanders using LTSS in state fiscal years (FYs) 2010 through 2013. Medicaid programs and services addressed in this chart book include the Living at Home (LAH) Waiver, the Medical Day Care Services (MDC) Waiver, the Waiver for Older Adults (WOA), Medical Assistance Personal Care (MAPC) Program, Medicaid Nursing Facility Services, and Money Follows the Person.
With the establishment of the Exchange in Maryland law in 2012, the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that supported Hilltop’s work on health care reform between the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and Hilltop transitioned to one between the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange (MHBE) and Hilltop.
This report presents the activities and accomplishments of that MOU, covering April 1, 2014, through April 30, 2015.
Hilltop Hospital Community Benefit Program Director Gayle D. Nelson, JD, gave this presentation at a Payers and Providers webinar titled The New Era: Hospital Community Benefits & Patient Financial Assistance on June 26, 2015. The webinar was attended by a national audience of state policymakers, community benefit directors of hospitals and health plans, financial officers, and providers. In her presentation, Nelson gave an overview of Affordable Care Act (ACA) §9007, “Additional Requirements for Charitable Hospitals,” which added I.R.C. §501(r) when it was enacted in 2010; gave a regulatory history from 2010 to the present; and discussed the Final Rules and their stipulations that were promulgated on December 31, 2014
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Policy Analyst Carl Mueller, MS, presented this poster at an ARM poster session on June 15.
This study examined whether an association exists between utilization of well or ambulatory medical and preventive or diagnostic dental services for children aged 2 to 18 years in Maryland Medicaid. We found that children receiving a well or ambulatory care visit had three times the odds of receiving a preventive or diagnostic dental service. This association provides a rationale for the use of mandates and/or incentives to encourage physicians to further promote oral health.
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Senior Policy Analyst Shamis Mohamoud, MA, presented this poster at an ARM poster session on June 15.
The objective of the analysis presented in the poster is to explore the prevalence of potentially preventable hospitalizations among adult Medicaid enrollees in Maryland, and the characteristics associated with increased likelihood of a potentially preventable hospitalization.
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Executive Director Cynthia H. Woodcock, MBA, presented this poster for Director of Special Studies Ian Stockwell, PhD, at an ARM poster session on June 14.
This poster shows that mental illnesses are both a cause for becoming dually eligible (eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid) and a factor contributing to the complexity of managing the care for individuals with multiple chronic conditions and associated functional impairments.
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Senior Policy Analyst Laura A. Spicer, MA, presented this poster at a State Health Research and Policy Interest Group poster session on June 13. The poster addresses Medicaid total cost of care in the era of Maryland’s hospital payment reform.
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Senior Policy Analyst Charles Betley, MA, presented this poster at a State Health Research and Policy Interest Group poster session on June 13, as well as at an ARM poster session on June 15.
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Executive Director Cynthia H. Woodcock, MBA, presented this poster for Director of Special Studies Ian Stockwell, PhD, at a State Health Research and Policy Interest Group poster session on June 13.
This poster shows that, when the enrollment trajectory of Maryland’s Community First Choice participants is examined, it becomes clear that some groups (such as individuals already in a 1915(c) waiver) are able to begin receiving services sooner than others. On average, CFC recipients used 96 percent of the personal or attendant care hours allocated on their plan of care. Also, planned services contained 58 percent more services on average than proposed by the acuity-based methodology.
Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Senior Policy Analyst Shamis Mohamoud, MA, delivered this podium presentation at the State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting.