Both Medicaid plans and states will benefit from this forward-thinking event, which will focus on:

    •  Aligning problems, policies, and politics to improve health
       outcomes while containing costs
    •  Promoting healthier behaviors through stakeholder partnerships
       and health education initiatives
    •  Expanding and diversifying the product portfolio
    •  Incorporating home and community based service waivers
    •  Evaluating the uninsured population eligible for Medicaid post reform
    •  Establishing interventions that work to reduce emergency room
       inpatient admissions
    •  Strengthening payor/provider relationships by developing a VIP program
    •  Identifying administrative cost reduction and improved
       efficiency opportunities
    •  Positioning for success within health insurance exchanges
    •  Creating cost containment and revenue generation strategies
    •  Meeting the challenges of dual eligibles
    •  Developing innovative ways to case manage the Medicaid population
    •  Leveraging technology to streamline and simplify Medicaid enrollment
    •  Streamlining systems with user-friendly, automated technology that
        will determine eligibility
    •  Creating incentives to improve quality of care provided in Medicaid
        managed care plans
    •  Controlling the problem of churning in Medicaid and managing the
        impact on care management
    •  Implementing a high performing Accountable Care Organization
    •  Developing and maximizing the effectiveness of Patient Centered
        Medical Home models
    •  Establishing performance and evaluation metrics to assess
        effectiveness of improved health outcomes of Medicaid beneficiaries

State specific issues include:

    •  Designing a health insurance exchange that helps consumers
        understand their Medicaid options
    •  Balancing ease of enrollment with fraud prevention
    •  Monitoring access and quality of Medicaid managed care plans
    •  Leveraging pay for performance programs that automatically assign
        new enrollees to better performing plans
    •  Ensuring effective ICD-10 planning and implementation
    •  Leveraging consumer engagement to allow patients access to personal
       health data and specifics about their providers as well as to see
       processing status of their own Medicaid claims

Hear what past attendees had to say about our 2011 event: 

“I was very impressed with the conference…very informative!”

“As a State Dept. of Justice Medicaid Fraud Director, I was pleasantly surprised by how informative the program was.  The speakers and material presented thoroughly explored a myriad of issues facing the
Medicaid System now"

“The conference covered a good range of topics.”

“Great topics—not boring!”