Contracting with Health Plans: Why Working With Health Plans and Payers Is Vital to the Independent Living Movement

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. This webinar will inform CILs (Centers for Independent Living) and other CBOs (Community-Based Organizations) about partnering with health plans and payers and how it can help to diversify the funding and building of self-sustaining programs. The presenters have first-hand knowledge of how working with health plans and payers provides an …

Building and Financing Sustainable Partnerships between Health Care and Community-Based Organizations

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. In a newly released report that Meals on Wheels America prepared with Quantified Ventures, and supported by Nonprofit Finance Fund, Effective Partnerships Between Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare: A Possible Path to Sustainability, describes a first-in-kind attempt to develop a Pay for Success project between a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan and Meals …

Building and Financing Sustainable Partnerships between Health Care and Community-Based Organizations

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. In a newly released report that Meals on Wheels America prepared with Quantified Ventures, and supported by Nonprofit Finance Fund, Effective Partnerships Between Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare: A Possible Path to Sustainability, describes a first-in-kind attempt to develop a Pay for Success project between a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan and Meals …

Integrating CBOs to Provide Social Services and Supports: A Blueprint for Health Plans

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. The current health care system does not adequately meet the needs of older adults with complex medical and social needs, which are intimately related. Despite mounting evidence that supports the integration of medical and social models of care, for health plans or social service providers, the transition to a more …

The LTSS Care Management Experience Survey: A Tool to Enhance Contracting Between CBOs and Healthcare Entities

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. A significant challenge experienced by community-based organizations (CBO) in contracting with health care entities is health care partners’ reluctance to share data on the outcomes of CBO services. In response, the health plans workgroup of the Trailblazers Learning Collaborative developed a standard long-term services and supports (LTSS) care management client experience …

Medicare Advantage and Community-Based Organizations: Opportunities and Challenges in Caring for People with Complex Needs

Set up an account and register HERE. The Balanced Budget Act of 2018, which included the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act, offers new flexibility for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to provide additional supplemental benefits to people with Medicare who have chronic illnesses, and functional and health-related social needs. …

Tools to Accelerate Cross-Sector Partnership Development

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Please join us on September 19 to preview four tools designed to help Community-Based Organizations (CBO) accelerate cross-sector partnership development efforts. As part of a learning collaborative established by the Aging and Disability Institute (ADBI) to develop multiple approaches that will advance integration between CBOs and health care organizations, four tools …

Using Medicare Physician Billing Codes to Support CBO Partnerships & Address SDOH

REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR HERE. Partners in Care Foundation secured a partnership with a local medical provider to develop a model of transitional care management and chronic care management focusing on addressing the Social Determinants of Health for the target population. The group received grant funding to develop and implement a model for delivering transitional …

Washington State’s Health Home Model: A Home-Based, Person-Centered Approach to Improving Health Outcomes

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. In response to nationwide efforts to better coordinate and manage service delivery to Medicaid recipients, the State of Washington initiated the Health Home Model of care coordination, which focuses on high-cost, at-risk Medicaid enrollees who have one or more chronic health conditions. These beneficiaries struggle with multiple issues, such as access …

Medicare Advantage Learning Collaborative Information Webinar

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Interested in learning about how to partner and contract with Medicare Advantage plans to provide home and community-based services and supports? Join the Aging and Disability Business Institute and the National Council on Aging for a webinar for organizations interested in applying to be part of the 2020 Medicare Advantage Learning …

Network Operations Learning Collaborative Information Webinar

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Interested in developing your network’s knowledge and skills to help build its operations and sustainability for delivery of home and community-based services and supports in contracts with health care entities? Join n4a’s Aging and Disability Business Institute webinar for community-based integrated networks looking to participate in this year’s Network Operations (NetOps) …

Developing Alternatives to Long-Term-Care Placement

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. In this webinar, the Institute on Aging (IOA) presenter Dustin Harper will describe its work in California to develop alternatives to long-term-care placement for older adults and individuals with disabilities. He will talk about IOA’s experience adapting a model of care originally developed with an Area Agency on Aging to multiple …