Prioritizing Community Voices to Enhance Medicaid Policy and Program Design

During the webinar, Duke researchers will share results from our research study focused on identifying strategies that can help center the community member voice within North Carolina Medicaid’s value-based payment (VBP) design, implementation, and oversight to advance community health and well-being. VBP has the potential to tailor health and social care to address Medicaid members' unique needs through flexibilities granted to Medicaid providers. To ensure VBP delivers on this potential and promotes efficient and effective use of Medicaid dollars, we need to understand what people want and need to be healthy and ensure we have enough providers to meet those needs, particularly in rural and medically underserved areas Following the research presentation, a panel of experts will discuss: 

• Key policy considerations and implementation implications for states and health plans, and 
• Reflections on the project’s approach to translating community input into actionable policy recommendations, including best practices and relevant examples from the field.

This project was funded by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.