PACE Opportunities for Area Agencies on Aging

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. This webinar will discuss the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and opportunities for Area Agencies on Aging to develop or partner with a PACE organization. The webinar will review the PACE care model, the population served, payment and growth opportunities. It will present a case study of a …

Hospital Without Walls: New Opportunities for CBOs

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued new rules and waivers of federal requirements to ensure that local hospitals and health systems have the capacity to absorb and effectively manage potential surges of COVID-19 patients. These newly introduced flexibilities permit hospitals and health care systems to act as local …

New Opportunities for Community-based Organizations: Supplemental Benefit Flexibilities and Medicare Advantage

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. The CHRONIC Care Act, implemented through the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, has provided Medicare Advantage (MA) plans several flexibilities related to offering a more expansive set of supplemental benefits know as Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI). During this webinar, participants will learn about these new benefits and hear …

Enhancing Partnerships to Address the Social Determinants of Health

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. The Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA) has partnered with Coordinated Care Alliance (CCA) on an initiative that brings together healthcare entities and community-based organizations (CBO) to enhance their collaboration. This partnership has moved the needle when it comes to addressing social determinants of health in the community, and thus meeting …

Contracting Dos and Don’ts

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. This webinar addresses basic considerations for healthcare contracting. Presenter, Paul Cantrell will cover the general Who, What, Where, When, and Hows of contracting with healthcare payers, including these key issues: basic contract provisions, negotiation considerations, non-disclosure and privacy, basic pricing considerations, insurance, volume, exclusivity and noncompete provisions; geography, data, quality and …

Lessons Learned from the n4a Health IT Learning Collaborative

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. This webinar will highlight the work done during the n4a Health IT learning collaborative, which was brought together to help CBOs building their IT capacity to contract with healthcare partners. It will describe the successes and challenges participants experienced in their efforts to search for and determine the type of IT …

Health Care Contracting in the Age of COVID-19

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. As never before, COVID-19 starkly demonstrates that health and prevention happen in the community. Organizations with close ties to vulnerable populations, at the neighborhood level, have an opportunity to prove the value of social health interventions to health care partners. This web seminar will explore real-world examples of contracts between community-based …

Integrating Clinical and Community Service Delivery

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. This webinar will provide details and insights from an Area Agency on Aging’s (AAA) experience managing the CMS Innovation Center's Accountable Health Communities (AHC) model. The Denver Regional Council of Governments is the only AAA in the country to manage an AHC, a model designed to 1) bridge the divide between …

Rules of Engagement: Considerations in Forming a Network

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. ​You’ve got willing and interested partners, but how formal does your network need to be in order to contract with a health care partner? What are the options? This presentation will review the reasons why forming a network are beneficial, review network model options and considerations to forming a network, and …

Telling Your AAA’s Story: A Guide to Creating & Implementing Your Brand

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Frustrated that people don't know who the Area Agency on Aging is or what it does? Ever thought about how branding the AAA can tell a story that lives in clients' minds and symbolizes trust, adaptability, credibility, and knowledge? Learn how to be a storyteller and discover how your stories become …

Contracting Between Community-Based Organizations and Health Care: New Insights from the 2020 RFI

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REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Join the Aging and Disability Business Institute and Scripps Gerontology Center for the release of new data on contracting between aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs) and health care entities. Previous Business Institute Request for Information (RFI) surveys found that aging and disability CBOs across the country are contracting with health …

Learning Through Crisis—Evaluating the Public Health Impact of Remote Behavioral Change Programs for Older Adults During COVID-19

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE. Since the advent of COVID-19, community-based social service organizations in the aging sector have pivoted to deliver evidence-based programs (EBPs) remotely to reach older adults who are sheltering at home. The Evidence-Based Leadership Collaborative (EBLC) began learning from this crisis in Spring 2020 through surveys, interviews and conversations with EBP participants …