Medicaid Transformation Podcast AVIA

In this episode, host David Smith interviews Joe Fifer, President & CEO of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), about how healthcare finance professionals are dealing with the impact of COVID-19. While the revenue lost during the early stages of the pandemic was staggering, health systems are recovering quicker than many models predicted, allowing CFOs to look to the future and examine the evolution of Medicaid and how digital plays a role.

In this episode, host David Smith speaks with Ken Crerar, President & CEO of The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, and Ceci Connolly, President & CEO of Alliance of Community Health Plans. Ken and Ceci discuss the impacts of the pandemic, the implications for underserved and vulnerable populations, and their viewpoints on Medicaid issues stemming from their unique roles. Learn more about how insurance brokers tie into Medicaid, and how small, community-oriented health plans view provider relationships, social determinants of health, mental health, and more.

In this episode, David Smith, MTP Project Executive, speaks with Dr. Jaewon Ryu, CEO at Geisinger, about how Geisinger innovated care and education for their patients. Dr. Ryu discusses the success of using Geisinger's Recovery at Home model to provide care to Medicare and dual-eligible patients and how the health system uses grassroots outreach for risk mitigation and education. Learn more about Recovery at Home, 65 Forward, and other innovations launched by Geisinger to better care for their patient population.

In this episode, Dr. Lisa Levine discusses the Medical Alumni Volunteer Expert Network (MAVEN) Project, and why it’s so critical for the underserved across the country. Many health systems have seen an incredible increase in the use of telehealth services due to coronavirus, and the MAVEN Project shares how it has had to work to scale its services throughout the pandemic. Participating clinics of the project are located in Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Washington.

In this episode, David Smith, MTP Project Executive, interviews Penny Wheeler, CEO at Allina Health, to address how it's even more critical than ever that patients have access to the resources they need during the pandemic. Listen as they dive into how COVID-19 has impacted virtual care solutions, community programs, provider-payer relationships, the new normal, and more.

David Smith sits down with his good friend Andy Slavitt, Chairman of the Medicaid Transformation Project and former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Andy shares why his projects and passions post-CMS are focused on innovation, policy, and collaboration, and why he believes that "inequality is the great threat to our times."