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2017 legislative reports and presentations
Reports
Apple Health/Medicaid
Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB)
- SmartHealth effectiveness
4th quarterly report (March 31, 2017)
Final (5th quarterly) report (June 30, 2017)
Other topics
Presentations
- Performance-based contracting, Senate Human Services, Mental Health, and Housing Committee (February 2017)
- Low income health program overview, Senate Ways and Means Committee (February 2017)
- HCA overview, Senate Health Care Committee (January 2017)
- HCA 101 and Medicaid transformation update, House Health Care and Wellness Committee (January 2017)
2016 legislative reports and presentations
Reports
Medicaid/Apple Health
- Child health services: Provider performance
- Consultation with CMS: Comparison of Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics encounter rates to Uniform Medicaid Plan rates
- Contracting out dental services administration
- Home health nursing
- Medicaid coverage suspension for incarcerated persons
- Medicaid dental prior authorization
- Medicaid: Employment status of Apple Health clients and non-clients with dependents who are Apple Health clients
Abridged version (with detail for top 10 firms)
Complete report - Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse program
- Medicaid managed care capitation rates
- Medicaid managed care preventive services and vaccinations
- Reimbursement for births performed at birth centers
- Service coordination organizations: Accountability measures implementation status
Joint report with the Department of Social and Health Services
Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB)
- PEBB annual report of customer service complaints and appeals
- PEBB health benefit plan: Cost and utilization trends, demographics, and impacts of alternative CDHP
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SmartHealth effectiveness
1st quarterly report (June 28, 2016)
2nd quarterly report (September 30, 2016)
3rd quarterly report (December 30, 2016)
Other Topics
- Bleeding Disorder Collaborative for Care: Fiscal year 2016 progress report
- Dr. Robert Bree Collaborative annual report
- Inpatient hospital certified public expenditure program
- State health care innovation plan annual report
Other Reports to Legislators
Presentations
- Medicaid 101, Senate Health Care Committee (November 2016)
- Medicaid managed care rates budget proviso, House Appropriations Committee (October 2016)
- Updates on hepatitis C, Medicaid managed care capitation rates, and the Medicaid transformation waiver, Joint Select Committee-Health Care Oversight (July 2016)
- Apple Health (Medicaid) update, Senate Ways and Means Committee (January 2016)
- Safeguarding Medicaid from false claims, Senate Accountability and Reform Committee (January 2016)
2015 legislative reports and presentations
Reports
Medicaid/Apple Health
- Comparison of federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics rates to UMP rates
- Employment status of HCA medical assistance clients and persons with dependents with HCA medical coverage (top 10 firms)
- Employment status of HCA medical assistance clients and persons with dependents with HCA medical coverage (complete report)
- Evidence-based and research-based practices updates and recommendations - Children's services
- Expanded oral health care program for adults with diabetes and pregnant women
- Health Home diabetes project
- Premium assistance and the federal basic health program option: Considerations for Washington State
- Proportion of non-participating providers serving low-income enrollees in state-purchased health care programs
Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB)
Other Topics
- Dr. Robert Bree Collaborative annual report
- Inpatient hospital certified public expenditure program
- K-12 employee benefits: Equity, affordability, and the impacts of system consolidation
Presentations
- Early Adopter integration of Medicaid purchasing, Senate Ways and Means Committee (February 2015)
- Healthier Washington budget update, Senate Ways and Means Committee (February 2015)
- K-12 employee health benefits, Senate Ways and Means Committee (January 2015)
- HCA agency overview and innovation plan update, Senate Health Care Committee (January 2015)
- Progress update: Integration initiatives, House Health Care and Wellness Committee (January 2015)
- Working together for a Healthier Washington, House Health Care and Wellness Committee (January 2015)
- HCA 101 and complaint process, House Health Care and Wellness Committee (January 2015)