The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission met recently in Washington, D.C. to review a number of Medicaid- and CHIP-related issues.

MACPAC members heard presentations on and discussed the following issues:

• Multistate Collaboration: Panel on State Perspectives
• Themes from Interviews on the Development of Hospital Payment Policies
• DSH Payments: Policy Changes and Policy Options
• Operational Considerations for Work and Community Engagement Requirements
• Medicaid Coverage of New and High Cost Drugs
• Managed Care Oversight
• Oversight of UPL Payments: Additional Analyses and Policy Options
• Mandated Report: Therapeutic Foster Care

Find outlines of these subjects and additional materials by clicking the links above and go here for a transcript of the two days of public meetings.

MACPAC is a non-partisan legislative branch agency that provides policy and data analysis and makes recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the states on a wide array of issues affecting Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.  While its recommendations are binding on neither the administration nor Congress, MACPAC’s work is highly influential and often finds its way into future Medicaid and CHIP policy.  Because private safety-net hospitals serve so many Medicaid and CHIP patients, they have an especially major stake in MACPAC deliberations and recommendations.