WASHINGTON, DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- AUGUST 16, 2023: Register today for PCC’s upcoming webinar Better Primary Care in Medicaid: What's Promising & What Works.

Experts will discuss key primary care payment and delivery strategies to improve health equity and outcomes for Medicaid patients. Their remarks will key off a new PCC report that examines proven and promising practices for strengthening primary care in Medicaid informed by a diverse, expert committee convened by PCC. This effort, supported by a grant from the California Health Care Foundation, will help to inform future Better Health – NOW Medicaid policies.

FEATURING Rob Houston, MBA, MPP Director of Delivery System and Payment Reform, Center for Health Care Strategies Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH Professor of Health Policy, Director, Center for Health Policy Research, George Washington University Staci Lofton, JD, MPH Senior Director, Health Equity, Families USA James M. Perrin, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Chair of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Matt Salo Salo Health Strategies; Former Executive Director / Founder & CEO, National Association of Medicaid Directors

BACKGROUND RESOURCES:

• Primary Care’s Essential Role in Advancing Health Equity for California (California Health Care Foundation)
  
  
• Advancing Primary Care Innovation in Medicaid Managed Care: A Toolkit for States (Center for Health Care Strategies)
  
  
• Advancing Comprehensive Primary Care in Medicaid (Bipartisan Policy Center)
  
  
• How States Are Using Comprehensive Medicaid Managed Care to Strengthen and Improve Primary Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)
  
  
• Medicaid and Racial Health Equity (Kaiser Family Foundation)
  
  
• Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care Through Medicaid (Center for Health Care Strategies)
  
  
• The Impact of the Payment and Delivery System Reforms of the Affordable Care Act (Commonwealth Fund)
  
  
• Leveraging Primary Care Population-Based Payments In Medicaid To Advance Health Equity (Brykman, Houston, Patel, Smithey)

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