3 Things to Know This Week for HHS Staff: Week of 6/3/2024
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3 Things to Know This Week for HHS Staff: Week of 5/27/2024
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Great conversation with Judy Mohr-Peterson, Medicaid Director of Hawai’i. She covered a lot of ground, including: (1) Their new 1115 waiver renewal that covers nutritional supports, rental assistance, and utilities, and support for justice-involved individuals; (2) the impact of the wildfire response on Medicaid agency operations; and (3) what the Hawai’i experience with the unwinding has been (and what it will be in 2024).
Run time: 17 mins
HealthCare Perspective is excited to announce its acquisition by MostlyMedicaid. MostlyMedicaid is one of the premiere management consulting firms in the Medicaid space and the entire HealthCare Perspective team is excited to become part of the MostlyMedicaid family. We will continue to service our existing customers under this new ownership and look forward to continued growth and expansion in the future. Kris Vilamaa, Chief Executive Officer of HealthCare Perspective is now Partner and Chief Growth Officer for MostlyMedicaid and our entire team of consultants is working under the new merged companies.
Check out https://mostlymedicaid.com for more information.
Kris Vilamaa, HealthCare Perspective’s Owner and Steven Hedgepeth, Senior Consultant with HealthCare Perspective recently completed two trainings for The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Services Providers on the topics of “Building Person-Centered Collaboration through Negotiation” and “Demonstrating Person-Centered Services through Value-Based Contracting”. It was our pleasure to share with providers of children’s behavioral health services in the field the opportunities that abound in working with payers and partners to deliver more effective services as well as the opportunities that are coming in value-based contracting.
Please reach out to our team if you need further information on how to implement the recommendations we discussed and how to work in closer partnership with the payers and other partners in your community.
HealthCare Perspective and our friends at ZiaPartners were recently awarded a contract to assist the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services with their behavioral health crisis services work. Our team will be assisting the department with engaging stakeholders across the State of Ohio including ADAMH boards, providers and consumers to identify gaps in the service continuum and opportunities to close those gaps. We are excited to be engaged in this work and will be continuing to provide updates as we progress.
This past week, Kris Vilamaa participated, along with Dr. Craigan Gray, former Medicaid Director in North Carolina, and Clay Farris, Practice Lead at Mostly Medicaid, in the Monthly Mostly Medicaid News Roundtable. This is always an interesting discussion of the happenings this month in Medicaid and Kris was able to offer insights to hundreds of listeners on the latest news in the space. If you haven’t heard it and want to check it out see below or follow this link.
