Resources About Voices for Better Health

The Path to a People-Centered Health System: Next Generation Consumer Health Advocacy

This report is a starting point for the next generation of consumer health advocacy that equips consumer advocates to take on the challenges and opportunities of transforming our health system.

Geriatrics-Competent Care: Multidisciplinary Geriatric Assessments

This brief highlights information from Resources for Integrated Care’s webinar Multidisciplinary Geriatric Assessment of the Older Adult: Conducting an Evaluation of Physical, Cognitive, Psychological, and Social Needs.

Comment Letter on Reform of Federal Requirements for Nursing Homes

Community Catalyst submitted the following comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to proposed regulations updating requirements for long-term care facilities.

Rhode Island Memorandum of Understanding Fact Sheet

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the State of Rhode Island for a dual eligible demonstration project and key issues for advocates to monitor.

Letter to the Senate Finance Committee on Chronic Care

Community Catalyst’s comment letter to the Senate Finance Committee’s Chronic Care Working Group details recommendations on a range of critical policy issues that affect the provision and financing of care for the most vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries.

Meaningful Consumer Engagement

This toolkit helps health plans and provider groups effectively engage, learn from and strategize with their diverse members and communities about the best ways to deliver person-centered care and support.

Miles to Go: Progress on Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in the Dual Demonstration Projects

This paper reports on progress to date addressing racial and ethnic health disparities in the dual demonstration projects and provides a set of recommendations to move forward toward realizing the health equity goals of the demonstrations.

Eldercare Workforce Alliance Toolkit for Advocates for Dually Eligible Older Adults

This toolkit can help advocates promote high-quality, coordinated, person and family-centered health care and LTSS for dually eligible older adults by ensuring the eldercare workforce is trained in gerontology and geriatrics best practices.

Lift Up Your Voice!

Lift Up Your Voice! is an interactive training program that educates people about the health care system. It teaches them the invaluable role individuals play in shaping health policy and introduces them to opportunities to influence policymakers.

Strengthening Long-Term Services and Supports

This tool promotes consumer-focused MLTSS by making it easier to identify weaknesses and promote better practices. The tool combines a checklist for assessing MLTSS with examples of practices, policies or contract language that implement the criteria.

Short Checklist: How Consumer Focused Are Your State's Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports?

This brief checklist can help quickly assess whether a Medicaid managed long-term services and support program is likely to meet consumer needs.

Checklist: How Consumer Focused Are Your State's Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports?

This checklist is designed for use in evaluating Medicaid managed long-term services and supports programs. It includes detailed questions about key provisions that are important to consumers.

VIDEO: Voices for Better Health

Voices for Better Health is partnering with state and local advocates in five states, equipping them with the resources and expertise necessary to establish a voice for dual eligibles in the policy debate in their states and at the federal level.

A Seat at the Table: Consumer Engagement Strategies Essential to the Success of State Dual Eligible Demonstration Projects

This paper provides a blueprint for the structures needed to ensure consumers and their family members are at the decision-making tables in the federal demonstration projects to integrate care for people eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.

Greater Than the Sum: Using Integrated Care to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities among Dual Eligibles Role for Consumers

This guide explains how consumer advocates, particularly those from communities of color, can get involved in shaping these programs to advance health equity.

Greater Than the Sum: Using Integrated Care to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities among Dual Eligibles

This report discusses the dual eligible demonstration projects as an opportunity to address racial and ethnic health disparities among the dual eligible population.

The Dual Eligible Demonstration Projects: The Passive Enrollment Challenge

This issue brief explains concerns for affected dual eligible beneficiaries and recommends alternatives to passive enrollment and policy options that might ease beneficiary concerns.

Risky Business: Capitated Financing in the Dual Eligible Demonstration Projects

The national Dual Eligible Demonstration Projects aim to improve health services for lowincome people with disabilities and low-income seniors by moving millions of people and billions of dollars into capitated health plans. The goals are laudable but mus

Dual Eligible Demonstration Projects: Top Ten Priorities for Consumer Advocates

The Affordable Care Act created demonstration projects aimed at integrating care for low-income seniors and people with disabilities who are eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. This issue brief was created to assist advocates in states where duals demonst

Integrated System of Care for Dual Eligibles: Capitated Approach

Guidance recently released from the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office provides several opportunities to engage in payment models for dual eligibles.