hpm 211 Flashcards

(42 cards)

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Federally Qualified Health Centers

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Relies on hrsa
Receives cost-based, enhanced reimbursement from Medicaid

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HRSA Criteria:

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Serves in a medically-underserved area or serves a medically-underserved population (low-income urban, rural, HIV+, migrant workers, LGBT, etc.)
Governing board at least 51% patients
Non-profit or public
Takes all patients, regardless of ability to pay / immigrant status

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DSH payments:

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  • Federal funds provided via Medicaid & Medicare to help hospitals caring for a disproportionate share of low-income and publicly-insured patients
  • States decide how to disperse to qualifying hospitals: mostly non profit hospitals
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Safety net definition:

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Providers who either by legal mandate or explicitly adopted mission they maintain an ‘open door,’ offering access to services for patients regardless of their ability to pay;

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Vulnerable populations/ why they matter

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defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability status, risk status related to sex and gender, and other populations identified as at-risk for health disparities.
They matters because of how policy impacts the population/definition

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Voltage Drop Barriers to care from Eisenberg and Power

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  • The different voltage drops subset/transition into the next
    -Ensuring high-quality health care requires that each of these “voltage drops” be recognized and addressed.
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Who lacks health insurance:

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40 million uninsured pre aca
This number drops to 25 million after ACA

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Insurance coverage by age:

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-65+ is more covered because of medicare
- children because of chip
- Non-elderly childless-adult lacks coverage

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Independent risk factors for being uninsured:

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income, citizenship, age, education level, race/ethnicity

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Causes of uninsured status:

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affordability, cultural barriers, lack of knowledge, eligibility for public programs

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Churning

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  • transition between different types of coverage and/or becoming uninsured.
  • More gaps in non expansion states due to churning
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What does insurance do:

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  • Strong evidence that it improves financial burden, care access, and utilization.
  • Fairly good evidence that it impacts health and mortality. Bens paper shows that theres a 3% decline statewide
  • Expanding health insurance does impact health disparities that are related to insurance status
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Insurance does not:

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-Expanding health insurance will not save us money
-Does not impact large health disparities

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Oregon health insurance experiment:

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-study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes (no statistically significant change in diabetes control, cholesterol, or blood pressure)in the first 2 years,
-but it did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain.

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Kosnick paper on insurance impacts:

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Study showed no mortality impact of health insurance

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Sommers paper on insurance impacts:

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3% decline in mortality statewide (esp in low-income counties and for health-care amenable causes)
- improvements in self-reported health, usual source of care, and physician’s visit in past year

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Pre aca medicaid requirements:

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Low Income and some other eligibility category - disabled, pregnant,

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Post ACA mediciad:

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-ACA took away the categorical requirements.
-Expanded to all citizens up to 138 FPL.

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Medicaid expansion in 2023:

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40 states expanded, 1 pending, 10 states have not expanded and it is an equity issue across states

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medicaid expansion status in 2014

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23 states did not expand, 26 did, 2 maybes

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Coverage gap for non expansion states:

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The options are Medicaid or marketplace; but there is a gap inbetween
-In states that didn’t expand, there is a coverage gap for childless adults. 44% -100% fpl do not have a place to get coverage

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Medicaid benefits:

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Medicaid is the Only payer for long term care. Medicare does not.
Federal requirements: outpatient, inpatient, ER, maternity, and long-term care
Federal limits on cost-sharing (5% income)
Optional benefits: drugs (though all states offer), vision, dental, medical equipment

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Section 1115 wavers

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trial periods for new things to add on to medicaid coverage
- experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects
- Approved by CMS for 5-year periods

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Medicaid managed care:

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private payer gets capitated funds from state to provide coverage
Per member per month payment to private payer
Now covers 70% of beneficiaries
Studies on medicaid mcos are mixed:

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MCO state pros/cons
State Pros: budget predictability, improve incentives for cost containment, delegate to private sector State Cons: resources spent on selection and overhead
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MCO Beneficiaries pros/cons
Beneficiaries pros: focus on preventive care, oversight and care coordination Beneficiaries cons: limited provider networks, inexperience of private plans in caring for the Medicaid population
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Medicaid take-up with ACA
Take up of medicaid is not 100% even with aca 86% of children, 62% of eligible adults
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Medicaid Churn
- Persists regardless of what coverage besides medicare - 28% of children leave medicaid after a year, 50% of adults leave after 2 years
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Medicaid churn causes and solutions
Causes: Variable incomes (Medicaid calculates monthly), multiple programs (CHIP/Medicaid), intentional cost saving policies Solutions: Guaranteed 12 month coverage, less onerous renewals, automated processes, integrate systems (CHIP/Medicaid)
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Medicaidchallenegs - causes and solutions to access to care - Patient side:
Causes: transportation, language barriers, competing life priorities, no physician will take insurance Solutions: wrap around services, physician workforce diversity
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Access to care - Provider side:
- Pay all providers more - Pay certain providers more - ACA increased Medicaid primary care to Medicare rates for 2013-2014 – most states didn’t continue this
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Where can states cut medicaid when budgets are tight?
Provider reimbursement, Payment to MC plans, Optional eligibility groups, Optional benefits (vision, dental, transport, etc.)
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Changes under ACA
New insurance regulations - adults 26 stay on/ adds healthier individuals to risk pool Eliminates pre-existing condition exclusions Eliminates lifetime or annual limits on benefits Premiums based only on age/smoking status (not gender) No cost-sharing for certain preventive visits Standardized benefits – “Essential Health Benefits” including maternity, drug RXs, home-based service, child
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ACA effects mortality:
Strong evidence on health insurance and mortality: IRS goldman study Insurance gained via nongroup private coverage (i.e. Marketplaces) Led to increased rates of office visits and prescriptions filled Increased diagnoses of high BP & cholesterol
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how many people on medicare?
63 million
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medicare part A
hospital care/INSURANCE and tied to payroll tax (traditional) 0$ premium no out of pocket cap
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Medicare part b
outpatient care and doctor services - if you do not have to have part b and usually it is because the person is still working. no out of pocket cap 20% coinsurance after deducitble
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medicare part c
- medicare advantage - bundles A, B and through a private provider that follows medicare rules many plans to choose from - has an out-of-pocket cap there are Medicare advantage part d plans
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medicare part D
optional prescriptions drug plan “Donut Hole” was a portion of drug spending without any coverage, that was eliminated by the ACA
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Medicare problems:
Medicare Cost sharing is high: and medicare individuals have limited assets - Can purchase medigap for cost sharing - but very expensive and tight window to enroll - You lock into traditional or medicare advantage - both have problems - Lots of choice in MA- which is a hurdle - Most physicians take traditional medicare; Medicare advantage can have issues with that - No long term care - No dental hearing vision
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medigap
- Can purchase medigap for cost sharing - but very expensive and tight window to enroll - 33% on traditional medicare have medigap
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Inflation reduction act
- Emerged from the failed efforts to pass the Build Back Better Act in 2022 * Included several key drug provisions - including drug price negotiations