Opportunities & Challenges for Health Departments Around HIV in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act is providing lots of opportunities and challenges for those living with HIV and the organizations that serve them. That’s also opening doors for lots of questions and creative solutions to seize the opportunities presented and solve the challenges that health departments face. How can you operate in the ACA era? Join us for a conversation with two experts on the topic to find out!

Webinar recording, presentation slides and links to resources now available! Click ‘Read More!’

Missed the webinar? You can find the recording here and slides from the presentation here: 12.15 Opportunities and Challenges for HDs Around HIV in the Era of ACA

Additionally, our presenters mentioned a few resources that are listed below:

• Guide to Picking a Covered California Plan with HIV, HCV, or PrEP Coverage
• NACCHO Toolbox
• Kern County’s Billing Toolkit
• The Washington State Local Health Jurisdiction Immunization Billing Resource Guide
• Georgia Department of Public Health Billing Toolkit
• Other publications from the Georgia Department of Public Health

AIDS.gov also conducted a webinar on Marketplace Enrollment for the HIV Community in November. The recording, slides and other resources from their webinar can be found here.

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Our upcoming webinar will provide an overview of some of the key changes around the ACA and Medicaid expansion, deconstruct some of the Health and Human Service (HHS) Administration’s recommendations, and review concrete steps that health departments can take to improve and expand billing.

When: Monday, December 15, 2014

Time: 11 am PST; 12 pm MST; 1 pm CST; 2 pm EST

Where to register? Here!

Participants will learn about:

• The ACA and its impact on people with HIV
• Changes/overview of ACA/Medicaid expansion & the health exchanges
• HRSA guidance around “vigorously pursuing” enrollment to maintain Ryan White
• Issues facing people who are HIV+ or High Risk Negative Persons looking for insurance plans
• Basic foundations of billing including: Updated Fee Schedules, Initiated Private Insurance Contracts, Provider Credentialing, Enhanced Insurance verification, and Improved Coding & Medical documentation
• Opportunities around open enrollment for the 340b program for health departments to purchase drugs at reduced rates

Participants will also hear examples of:

• Health Care Reform (HCR) implementation in California
• Billing system implementation in California and Wyoming

Presenters:

Athina Kinsley is an expert on billing, who will be hosting a webinar on billing in December. Ms. Kinsley was previously at the Kern County Department of Public Health and has spearheaded efforts which include the California Billables Project and the California Public Health Billing Project.

 

 

Courtney Mulhern-Pearson is the Director of State and Local Affairs at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Ms. Mulhern-Pearson advocates for full funding of vital HIV care and prevention programs and provides leadership and coordination of the Foundation’s work to ensure successful implementation of health care reform with a focus on transitioning people with HIV/AIDS into new systems of healthcare coverage.

 

 

We will end with a Question & Answer session along with an overview of how your health department can get free assistance on building capacity to work in an insurance environment for the long term. We also encourage everyone to follow along and ask questions on Twitter using the hashtag #ACATalkSF.

Ready for more? Register here!