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Don’t Forget to Share Your Health Care Contracting Experiences

Tell us about your organization’s experience contracting with health care entities to serve older adults and people with disabilities by December 1! Even if your CBO is not currently engaged in contracting work—take the CBO–Health Care Contracting Survey now to share your insights! If you have received a unique link for your organization, please use that link to complete the survey.

Increasing Cross-Sector Partnership Opportunities

and Improving Financial Acumen

There are more opportunities for aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs) to participate in health care contracting because of the movement to value-based payment models and the new regulatory changes allowing Medicare Advantage plans to expand supplemental benefits. To build and sustain such partnerships, CBOs need to assess their current financial health and learn business knowledge and skills to grow and strengthen their service delivery capacity. To increase cross-sector partnership opportunities and improve financial acumen, the Aging and Disability Business Institute hosted two Financial Acumen Learning Collaboratives for CBOs in partnership with Collaborative Consulting. Read the resources that were developed from those collaboratives.

Developing CBO Contract Scopes of Work

A new resource guide and checklist provide recommendations on how to develop an effective scope of work, based on insights from health care organizations and community-based organizations (CBOs) with extensive cross-sector contracting experience. The primary audience for this brief these resources is health plans., However, though CBOs and other health care organizations including Accountable Care Organizations, clinically integrated networks, and others engaged in value-based payment arrangements or otherwise at risk for health care costs and outcomes can benefit from these resources.

Registration Open for USAging’s 2024 Aging Policy Briefing

Registration is now open for USAging’s 30th annual Aging Policy Briefing & Capitol Hill Day, March 12-13, 2024, in Washington, DC! Attendees will learn the latest on key policy issues, includingMedicaid, Medicare and related priorities such as AAA–health care contracting opportunities and other policy areas. The event will begin with a pre-conference intensive on measuring and paying for the social determinants of health, brought to you by the Aging and Disability Business Institute.

The Business Institute offers consulting services for AAAs, CBOs and CBO networks. Our consultants are nationally recognized and understand health care, AAA/CBO/network operations and the unique needs and challenges facing CBOs and networks today. Learn more about how our consulting services can help your organization.

New Findings on Planning and Care for Serious Illness

According to a new poll commissioned by The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF), planning and care for serious illness is unfamiliar to adults age 50+ but strongly desired once defined. What does this tell us? Clinicians must speak with their patients about what matters to them, especially planning for serious illness. And everyone needs to talk to family members. The poll, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, is part of Age-Friendly Insights, a JAHF series measuring opinions on improving the care of older adults and support for family caregivers. View the complete poll findings.

Engaging Community Members:

A Guide to Equitable Compensation

Community members can contribute to various activities, such as conducting and participating in surveys, focus groups and forums and serving as members of advisory committees and boards. Building meaningful and fulfilling partnerships with community members, especially those living in marginalized communities, is critical as health care organizations work to address health care inequities. Organizations should compensate community members for their volunteer time and knowledge just as they would other professionals doing the similar work. The Center for Health Care Strategies published a brief to help develop and implement equitable compensation practices for community members. This brief offers guidance to health care organizations and includes examples from states and health care organizations.

Enhancing Support for Immigrant Direct Care Workers

A report published by PHI, Bridging The Gap, discusses the role that immigrant direct care workers play in the U.S. health care system, especially in long-term care for older adults and people with disabilities. The report includes a detailed overview of how immigrants have been a significant force in working with older adults and people with disabilities, comprising 27 percent of direct care workers. Additionally, the report outlines a range of ways to support immigrant workers, including providing work authorizations and pathways to citizenship to work in these sectors, supporting workforce innovations that recruit, retain, train and support immigrant direct care workers, strengthening immigrant-specific supports for these workers, and improving data collection and research to fully capture the realities of immigrant direct care workers.

Addressing Barriers to Health Care in Rural America

The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation published an infographic exploring rural health and health care access in the U.S., including the barriers to care and how telehealth services can improve health care access. These challenges contribute to poorer health outcomes and shorter life expectancies among the rural population compared to their urban counterparts.

Looking for data to boost your value proposition? The Business Institute's Evidence Bank houses a collection of research studies that CBOs can pull from to bolster their own pitches to health care entities. If you have a research article that you would like us to include, please email us or fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

UPCOMING EVENTS

November 15, 2023 | 2:30-4:00 PM ET

Webinar: Medicaid Opportunities for Evidence-Based Program Sustainability: Building Strategic Relationships with Your State Medicaid Agency (Presented by the National Council on Aging)

November 15, 2023 | 4:00-5:00 PM ET

Webinar: The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Includes Codes to Address HRSNs...What Happens Next? (Presented by the Partnership to Align Social Care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the U.S. Administration for Community Living)

November 16, 2023 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET

Webinar: CCH Learning Series Part One: Introductions to Community Care Hubs (Presented by the Aging and Disability Business Institute)

November 30, 2023 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET

Webinar: CCH Learning Series Part Two: Community Care Hubs Core Functions (Presented by the Aging and Disability Business Institute)

December 4-6, 2023 | Washington, DC

Conference: Social Determinants of Health Policy Forum (Presented by Aligning for Health)

December 7, 2023 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET

Webinar: CCH Learning Series Part Three: Contracting Opportunities to Address Health-Related Social Needs (Presented by the Aging and Disability Business Institute)

December 7, 2023 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET

Webinar: How the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly Can Meet the Needs of Dually Eligible Individuals in Rural Communities (Presented by The Better Care Playbook)

December 12, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 PM ET

Webinar: Health Care Contracting Series Part Three: Operationalizing Contracts: Improving Contracting Implementation and Collaboration (Presented by the Partnership to Align Social Care, the Aging and Disability Business Institute and Camden Coalition)

December 14, 2023 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET

Webinar: CCH Learning Series Part Four: Building the Community Care Hub Business Case (Presented by the Aging and Disability Business Institute)

December 14, 2023 | 2:30-4:00 PM ET

Webinar: Medicaid Opportunities for Evidence-Based Program Sustainability: Leveraging Medicaid Transformation to Support Expansion and Funding of Evidence-Based Programs (Presented by the National Council on Aging)

January 17, 2024 | 2:30-4:00 PM ET

Webinar: Medicaid Opportunities for Evidence-Based Program Sustainability: Medicaid Waivers and State Plan Amendment Opportunities to Fund Evidence-Based Programming (Presented by the National Council on Aging)

February 21, 2024 | 2:30-4:00 PM ET

Webinar: Medicaid Opportunities for Evidence-Based Program Sustainability: Optimizing Medicaid Reimbursement Community Health Worker Delivered Evidence-Based Programming (Presented by the National Council on Aging)

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