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News | December 21, 2021 

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States Plan for End of Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement
• Advancing and Sustaining Community Health Worker Partnerships
Using Growth Caps to Disrupt Hospital Price Increases
Health and Housing: Introduction to Cross-Sector Collaboration

States Plan for the Termination of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement

State officials are planning for the termination of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement, which helps ensure that people enrolled in Medicaid stay covered during the pandemic.

Strategies: State Medicaid officials are taking steps to ensure that eligible individuals don’t lose coverage by improving address and contact information, identifying best practices for outreach and communications, and finding ways to process and stagger renewals and redeterminations.

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Advancing and Sustaining Community Health Worker Partnerships

Community health workers (CHWs) have played an essential role in the COVID-19 response, as states seek to advance health equity, eliminate disparities, and find solutions to significant workforce shortages.

Looking ahead: As state leaders look toward recovery and the future of public health, bolstering partnerships with CHWs can help states ensure culturally competent care and bring community voices into the policymaking process.

Our new brief highlights innovative approaches for funding, supporting, and partnering with CHWs, including pathways for financial sustainability.

 
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Using Growth Caps to Disrupt Hospital Price Increases

Rising hospital prices are the largest driver of health care spending in the US commercial market — and an increasing concern for state policymakers.

Our new brief outlines strategies that state leaders can use to disrupt increasing hospital prices, including implementing price growth caps via insurance rate review.

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Health and Housing: Introduction to Cross-Sector Collaboration

The context: For over a decade, state leaders have worked across health and housing sectors to strengthen comprehensive services for individuals experiencing homelessness and housing instability.

The challenge: Health and housing sectors are often fragmented — and while successful cross-agency partnerships exist, stakeholders in health and housing sectors must learn to collaborate and speak the same language to succeed.

Our new resource will give you background on the health and housing sector, including common language and core programs, as well as details about opportunities for cross-sector collaboration.

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Improving Community Health through Hospital Community Benefit Policy

The context: As state legislatures convene in 2022, addressing the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 will be front and center. Hospital community benefit policy is a key strategy that policymakers can use to improve community health.

Connecting the dots: Hospitals play an important role in communities as anchor institutions and are key stakeholders in pandemic recovery.

Our latest blog highlights legislation passed in 2021 and looks forward to community benefit policy in 2022 and beyond.

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Resource of the Month

Addressing Bias and Advancing Equity in State Policy

This month, we’re featuring Addressing Bias and Advancing Equity in State Policy, a resource from Zero to Three.

This resource offers:

  • Strategies and best practices for engaging families and communities in policymaking 
  • Examples of strategies to promote equity and ensure all babies get a strong start in life

Explore other state resources and information in NASHP’s Healthy Child Development State Resource Center. Have a resource you’d like us to highlight? Email Elinor Higgins.

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IN THE STATES
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Webinars

State Policies to Strengthen the Direct Care Workforce
— Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 1-2 pm ET

State Tracking

Costs
State Legislative Action to Lower Pharmaceutical Costs

State Drug Pricing Laws: 2017-2021

State Legislative Action to Lower Health System Costs

COVID-19
Back-to-School Mask and Vaccine Tracker

Vaccine Mandates Legislative Tracker

COVID-19 Federal Funding Earmarked for Hospitals, Providers, and States

States' COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declarations, Mask Requirements and Travel Advisories

State Approaches to Contact Tracing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

How States Collect, Report, and Act on COVID-19 Race and Ethnicity Data

States Use Appendix K Waivers to Support Home- and Community-Based Services in Response to COVID-19

State Medicaid and CHIP Strategies to Protect Coverage during COVID-19 

Coverage
States’ Efforts to Extend Medicaid Coverage to Postpartum Women

State Actions that Support and Expand Palliative Care

Where States Stand on Exchanges

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