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Resources by Topic: Healthcare business and finance

North Carolina Medicaid Expansion Toolkit
Provides information on North Carolina's Medicaid expansion and details enrollment procedures. Includes materials in English, Spanish, and other select languages explaining Medicaid expansion and promoting participation, including a flyer, video, social media toolkit, and sample newsletter text, among others. Provides links to application instructions and frequently asked questions.
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model
Provides information on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center's States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model, a voluntary state total cost of care model that will test state accountability for controlling overall growth in health expenditures while increasing investment in primary care and improving population health outcomes.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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State Operations Manual Appendix B - Guidance for Surveyors: Home Health Agencies
Presents interpretive guidelines clarifying statutory and regulatory requirements for home health agencies.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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State Operations Manual Appendix M - Guidance for Surveyors: Hospice
Details the hospice survey process and presents interpretive guidelines clarifying statutory and regulatory requirements.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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State Operations Manual Appendix G - Guidance for Surveyors: Rural Health Clinics (RHCs)
Provides details and interpretive guidelines clarifying the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) survey and certification processes.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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State Medicaid Links
Provides links to state Medicaid agency websites, including pages for state contacts, eligibility, and enrollment information.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Medicare Shared Savings Program
Provides an overview of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Offers links to program resources, including application information, program data, and program statutes and regulations.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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ClimaWATCH (Climate and Weather Analytics, Trends, and Community Health)
Examines the impact of heat waves, based on data from Medicaid beneficiaries on healthcare utilization and spending. Includes information at the national, state, and county levels. Offers interactive maps and charts that show heat waves, excess healthcare use and spending due to heat, and more. Identifies communities most affected by heat waves using different metrics.
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica
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Making Care Primary (MCP) Model
Provides information on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center's Making Care Primary (MCP) Model, which offers a pathway for primary care clinicians in eight states to gradually adopt prospective, population-based payments while building infrastructure to improve behavioral health and specialty care integration and enhance equitable access to care.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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ACO REACH Model
Provides information on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center's ACO REACH Model, which is intended to encourage healthcare coordination to improve care for people with Medicare.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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