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Conferences and
Training

Check here for a schedule of Managed Care Conferences and Training Opportunities.

New! Co-sponsor a Maternal and Child Health Workshop with HRSA/MCHB on strategies, tools, and techniques to negotiate fiscally sound Medicaid SCHIP managed care contracts.

New! Register on-line for a Fall Conference Call Series. Go to Best Practices Employed By School Based Health Centers for Maximizing Reimbursement. Click on "Teleconferences". Sessions are: Sept. 29, Oct. 20, Nov. 10

New! Register on-line for Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net - a series of three Web assisted audio conferences Sept. 23, 24, 25 at 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., EDT. Learn how to use new data sources and a Tool Kit to assess the performance and needs of local health care safety nets.

 

Publications

Check out our recent publications.

Bridging Cultures and Enhancing Care:
Approaches to Cultural and Linguistic Competency in Managed Care

Reimbursement in School-Based Health Centers: Dialogue with National/State Partners (pdf)
> Slides (pdf)

Inventory of HRSA Managed Care Activities
(Word document - 235 KB)

Local Health Departments’ Changing Role in Provision and Assurance of Safety Net Services (pdf)

Cultural Competence
Works
(pdf)

> Appendix C (pdf)
> HRSA News Brief

Safety Net Capacity to Care for Low-Income Uninsured Patients - This study addresses many of the concerns raised in the IOM study listed below.

IOM Study - America's Health Care Safety Net:
Intact but Endangered

 > HRSA Press Release
 > Executive Summary (pdf)
 > IOM Safety Net Web

Mission

To enable HRSA's providers, programs, and other safety-net providers to effectively participate in health services financing and managed care systems so that they can meet the health care needs of underserved populations.

CHSFMC Fact Sheet


Archived Broadcast: Cross-Cultural Communication in Health Care

View the archived broadcast, Cross-Cultural Communication in Health Care: Building Organizational Capacity, and access various resources. Originally broadcast on June 4, 2003.


Serving Persons with Disabilities in Medicaid Managed Care:
Assuring Continuity, Quality and
Cost Effectiveness

Conference Proceedings


Opportunities to Use Medicaid in Support of Access to Health Services
   www.hrsa.gov/medicaidprimer

On this web, view fact sheets which assist state and local health officials in understanding how Medicaid works and how it can assure access to health services for underserved populations.


Managed Care and Health Centers: An Overview and Analysis

An update of the analysis of managed care enrollment in BPHC-supported health centers for 1998.
 > Introductory Letter and Report (pdf)
 > Community Health Center Managed Care
     Plans


Brown Bag Seminars

Seminars Home Page

Technical Assistance Notes

Read about CHSFMC activities.
Technical Assistance Notes:
Winter 2003

 

Third Party Reimbursement (TPR) Training & Technical Assistance Program

State-based third party reimbursement training and technical assistance in coding, billing, and collections to help grantees and subgrantees improve reimbursement from third party sources and thereby improve the effectiveness of HRSA grant funding.

 

Purchasing Specifications

View model contracting language for states and managed care organizations.

Press Release
Purchasing Specifications:
> Medicaid Pediatric
> HIV/AIDS
> Access
> Homeless
> Children with Special
              Health Care Needs
> Cultural Competence

 

Managed Care and Health Services Financing Technical Assistance Center (MCTAC)

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Information on Technical Assistance Center

 

 

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