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Bryant K, Dills J, Hergenrother L, Major M. 2023. Using Earned Income Tax Credits to promote maternal health. Chapel Hill, NC: Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center, 10 pp.

Annotation: This issue brief explains how the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) can promote economic stability and improve maternal health outcomes, particularly among low-income Black, indigenous, and birthing people of color. Included are action steps the maternal health workforce can take to promote awareness and support EITC uptake

Contact: Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Web Site: https://maternalhealthlearning.org/

Keywords: Government financing, Health promotion, Income factors, Maternal health, Social determinants of health, Tax credits

Carlson J, Falletta K, Steber K, Novak K. 2023. Recommendations for creating equitable and inclusive paid family leave policies . Bethesda, MD: Child Trends, 16 pp.

Annotation: This research brief outlines the impacts of paid parental leave for families and communities and describes the current policy landscape for paid parental leave in the United States. It provides six recommendations for policymakers to consider as they work to develop equitable and inclusive paid parental leave policies. The recommendations are designed to guide state-level efforts but may also be applicable to leaders at the local and federal levels.

Contact: Child Trends , 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1200 W, Bethesda, MD 20814, Telephone: (240) 223-9200 E-mail: Web Site: http://www.childtrends.org

Keywords: Economic factors, Employee benefits, Family leave, Financing, Legislation, Policy development, Working parents

Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center . 2023. Evidence-based home visiting programs. Nashville, TN: Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center ,

Annotation: This policy brief examines evidence-based home visiting programs as an effective strategy to support parents and young children from the prenatal period through age three. It describes how home visiting programs provide support and education to parents through trained professionals or paraprofessionals in home-based settings, with services now available both traditionally and virtually. The brief details the positive impacts on parenting skills, state variations in implementation approaches, funding mechanisms including Medicaid, and the percentage of eligible families served across states. It highlights leading states like Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, and New York, and summarizes recent state initiatives to enhance these programs through increased funding and expanded eligibility.

Contact: Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center , Vanderbilt University , Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Nashville, TN 37203, E-mail: https://pn3policy.org/contact/ Web Site: https://pn3policy.org/

Keywords: Early intervention, Financing, Home Visits, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, MCH programs, Maine, Medicaid, Model programs, New York, Parent support services, Policy, Prenatal care

Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission. 2022. Report to the Congress on Medicaid and CHIP. Washington, DC: Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, 196 pp.

Annotation: This report focuses on aspects of Medicaid's mission to ensure access to high-quality health services and the program's future as a major health care payer driving health system change toward value. The report focuses on topics of interest to Congress, including Medicaid’s responsiveness during economic downturns; concerns about high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality; improving hospital payment policy for the nation's safetynet hospitals, and the integration of care for people who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.

Contact: Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, 1800 M Street, N.W., Suite 360 South, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 350-2000 Fax: (202) 273-2452 E-mail: https://www.macpac.gov/contact-us/ Web Site: http://www.macpac.gov Available from the website.

Keywords: Access to health care, Adolescents, Children, Children', Costs, Financing, Health care reform, Health services delivery, Medicaid, Medications, Mental health, Oral health, Organizational change, Pregnant women, Reimbursement, Systems development, s Health Insurance Program

Schmidt A, McManus M, White P, The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health; Slade R, Salus T, Bradley J., American Academy of Pediatrics . 2022. Coding and reimbursement tip sheet for transition from pediatric to adult health care (upd. ed.). Washington, DC: Got Transition™/Center for Health Care Transition Improvement, 32 pp. (Practice resource; no. 2)

Annotation: This tip sheet for professionals providing transition services in pediatric and adult primary and specialty care settings summarizes innovative transition payment models. Contents include alternative payment methodologies and transition-related CPT codes and corresponding Medicare fees. Enhanced fee-for-service payments, pay-for-performance, capitation, bundled payments, shared savings, and administrative or infrastructure payments are among the topics covered.

Contact: Got Transition™/Center for Health Care Transition Improvement, National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, 1615 M Street, N.W., Suite 290, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 223-1500 Fax: (202) 429-3957 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://gottransition.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Adolescents, Financing, Model programs, Pediatric care, Primary care, Reimbursement, Transition planning, Young adults

Washington State Department of Health. 2022. Washington rural health clinic dental services toolkit: A guide to implementing dental services in Washington's rural health clinics. Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Health, 35 pp.

Annotation: This toolkit provides information about implementing oral health services in Washington’s rural health clinics (RHCs). It discusses assessing a community’s oral health needs and how an RHC can address these needs, procuring funding and equipment, determining a dental encounter rate, recruiting staff, collaborating with primary care and emergency services, selecting health records software, and managing costs and patient processes. Getting started, implementing a program, program impact, and looking ahead are also addressed.

Contact: Washington State Department of Health, P.O. Box 47890, Olympia, WA 98504-7890, Telephone: (800) 525-0127 Secondary Telephone: (360) 236-4030 Web Site: http://www.doh.wa.gov Available from the website.

Keywords: Collaboration, Community programs, Financing, Oral health, Rural environment, Rural health, State materials, Washington

Kumar N, Muñiz MA. 2022. What we have learned from community health workers throughout the pandemic: Recommendations for policymakers. Washington, DC: Families USA, 10 pp.

Annotation: This brief presents lessons learned and recommendations for maintaining and building on community health worker (CHW) deployment during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses who CHWs are and what they do and provides information about the policy landscape, taking into consideration the American Rescue Plan Act’s allocation of funds for the public health workforce to support pandemic-relief efforts.

Contact: Families USA, 1225 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005, Telephone: (202) 628-3030 Fax: (202) 347-2417 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.familiesusa.org Available from the website.

Keywords: , COVID-19, Community health centers, Community health workers, Disease transmission, Financing, Infectious diseases, Oral health, Public policy, Virus diseases

Schmidt A, McManus M, White P, Slade R, Salus T, Bradley J. 2022. 2022 Coding and payment tip sheet for transition from pediatric to adult health care. Washington, DC: Got Transition, 32 pp. (Practice resource; no. 2)

Annotation: This transition payment tip sheet is produced by Got Transition and the American Academy of Pediatrics in order to support the delivery of recommended transition services in pediatric and adult care settings. The tip sheet begins with a listing of transition-related CPT codes and corresponding Medicare fees and relative value units (RVUs), effective as of 2022. The resource also includes a set of clinical vignettes with recommended CPT and ICD coding, as well as detailed coding descriptions for each transition-related code.

Contact: Got Transition™/Center for Health Care Transition Improvement, National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, 1615 M Street, N.W., Suite 290, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 223-1500 Fax: (202) 429-3957 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://gottransition.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Adolescents, Financing, Model programs, Pediatric care, Primary care, Reimbursement, Special health care needs, Transition planning, Young adults

National Healthy Schools Collaborative. 2022. Healthy schools ten-year roadmap. [no place]: National Healthy Schools Collaborative, 25 pp.

Annotation: This roadmap aims to inspire communities to continue the work begun during the COVID-19 pandemic on building systems that effectively serve the whole child and children's educators. The roadmap identifies 10 priorities for the next 10 years, including developing shared goals; instituting equitable funding models; bolstering quality of services and systems; providing healthy spaces to learn, play, and work; optimizing funding streams; increasing awareness of the interdependence of learning and health; improving data regulation, collection, transparency, privacy, and interoperablity; addressing workforce shortages; encouraging the public to become a partner in improving health and learning outomes; and enhancing the ability of community-based organizations to identify and mobilize people and communities around issues related to healthy schools.

Contact: National Healthy Schools Collaborative, Web Site: https://www.healthyschoolsroadmap.org/faqs Available from the website.

Keywords: Academic achievement, Communities, Data, Financing, School age children, Schools

Steward M, Howe G, Patel S. 2022. Advancing oral health equity for Medicaid populations. Hamilton, NJ: Center for Health Care Strategies, 15 pp. (Brief)

Annotation: This brief describes barriers to addressing oral health equity and outlines recommendations for overcoming these issues within four key areas: (1) coverage and access, (2) workforce-capacity building, (3) partnerships, and (4) payment. In particular, the brief highlights specific opportunities for partnering with community-based stakeholders (e.g., community-based organizations) as part of efforts to reduce oral health disparities and advance oral health equity for individuals enrolled in Medicaid.

Contact: Center for Health Care Strategies, 300 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 125, Hamilton, NJ 08619, Telephone: (609) 528-8400 Fax: (609) 586-3679 Web Site: http://www.chcs.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Access to health care, Financing, Health equity, Medicaid, Oral health

Stocks M, Pollick H, Jackson R, Kumar J. 2022. California fluoridation manual. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Public Health, Office of Oral Health, 55 pp.

Annotation: This manual provides information about community water fluoridation (CWF) in California. It explains what CWF is and discusses its history in the state. It guides users through a step-by-step process of advocating for CWF. Topics include strategy, education and advocacy, policymaking, preventing or reversing a rollback, capital funding, and communicating with operations.

Contact: California Department of Public Health, Office of Oral Health, MS Code 8305, P.O. Box 997377, MS 0500, Sacramento, CA 95899-7377, Telephone: (916) 558-1784 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/Pages/OralHealthProgram/OralHealthProgram.aspx Available from the website.

Keywords: Advocacy, California, Financing, Fluoride, Health education, Oral health, Prevention, Public policy, State information, Water

Van Stekelenburg B, Smith M, Whitaker R, Wheeler S, Basrai Z, Saunders R. 2022. Embedding equity into perinatal health alternative payment models to improve maternal health outcomes. Washington, DC: Duke-Margolis Health Policy Center, 10 pp.

Annotation: This issue brief highlights current perinatal payment models, including perinatal bundles; outlines where equity can be embedded in payment reforms; and illustrates how payment reforms can be linked to address the needs of the whole person and improve longitudinal health outcomes for birthing people. Included are examples of perinatal bundle models in North Carolina, Colorado, and Tennessee.

Contact: Duke-Margolis Health Policy Center, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20004, Telephone: (202) 621-2800 Web Site: https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/

Keywords: Financing, Health care reform, Health equity, Models, Perinatal care, Policy development

Boozang P, Elam L, O’Connor K, and Savuto M. 2022. State strategies to improve maternal health and promote health equity compendium. Pinrceton, NJ: Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, 12 pp.

Annotation: This compendium provides information on strategies to improve maternal health outcomes and synthesizes research about the national state-of-play, including state examples, across four domains: maternal health models, quality improvement, workforce and benefits, and eligibility and enrollment/coverage expansion.

Contact: Princeton University , Center for Health and Wellbeing, School of Public and International Affairs, Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Princeton University, Princeton, NU 08544-1013, Telephone: 609.258.6932 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://chw.princeton.edu/

Keywords: Financing, Health equity, Maternal health, Medicaid, Model programs, State health insurance programs

Schiff J, Manning L, VanLandeghem K, Langer CS, Schutze M, Comeau M. 2022. Financing care for CYSHCN in the next decade: Reducing burden, advancing equity, and transforming systems . Pediatrics. 2022 Jun 1;149(Suppl 7), 9 pp.

Guarnizo T, Clark M. 2022. Doula services in Medicaid: Pathways and payment rates (part 3). Washington, DC: Center for Children and Families,

Annotation: This health policy blog post, the third in a series from Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families, examines implementation pathways and payment structures for doula services in Medicaid programs. It analyzes key lessons learned from early adopter states Oregon and Minnesota, focusing on two core challenges: the legal authority under which states can authorize doula services and establishing sustainable reimbursement rates. The post explains how states have shifted from using Medicaid's "direct services" authority to the Affordable Care Act's preventive services pathway, which allows doulas to practice more independently. It details how states have adjusted reimbursement rates over time, with examples ranging from Minnesota's increase to $770 per birth to Oregon's planned increase to $1,500 per pregnancy. The analysis provides specific examples of how newer states like Virginia, Rhode Island, Washington D.C., and California are implementing doula coverage in Medicaid, incorporating lessons from earlier state experiences. The report emphasizes the importance of sustainable payment rates and reduced administrative barriers in advancing health equity, particularly for communities of color who experience disproportionate maternal health disparities.

Contact: Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy , Center for Children and Families, 600 New Jersey Avenue , Washington, DC 20001, Telephone: (202) 687-0880 Fax: (202) 687-3110 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://ccf.georgetown.edu

Keywords: Barriers, Doulas, Financing, Medicaid, Reimbursement, State initiatives

Guarnizo T. 2022. Doula services in Medicaid: State progress in 2022. Washington, DC: Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy , Center for Children and Families,

Annotation: This health policy post examines state efforts to incorporate doula services into Medicaid programs as a strategy to address maternal health disparities, particularly among Black and brown birthing people. It discusses how doula care can improve birth outcomes and reduce costs while providing culturally congruent support to underserved communities.The post details the implementation status across states as of 2022, noting that six states reimburse for doula services through Medicaid, six others plan to implement coverage in 2022-2023, and five more are considering such programs. It includes an interactive map showing the geographic distribution of state efforts and explains that most states are pursuing implementation through state plan amendments under the Affordable Care Act's preventive services benefit option. The blog post is part of a series examining Medicaid doula services, with future installments planned to explore state payment rates.

Contact: Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy , Center for Children and Families, 600 New Jersey Avenue , Washington, DC 20001, Telephone: (202) 687-0880 Fax: (202) 687-3110 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://ccf.georgetown.edu

Keywords: Doulas, Financing, Maps , Medicaid, State initiatives

Khanal A, Benyo A, Silverman K, Maul A. 2022. Covering doula services under Medicaid: Design and implementation considerations for promoting access and health equity. Hamilton, NJ: Center for Health Care Strategies,

Annotation: This brief outlines design and implementation considerations for states covering doula services under Medicaid to address the maternal health crisis and promote health equity. It explores how six Medicaid agencies approached doula coverage decisions in key areas including service scope, rate setting, credentialing, training requirements, managed care contracting, practitioner recommendation requirements, and workforce development. The document emphasizes the importance of engaging doula stakeholders throughout the process and highlights specific state approaches that address barriers to implementation. It provides actionable strategies for states to develop culturally responsive benefits that can improve maternal and birth outcomes, particularly for people of color. The brief includes examples from Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and was developed to guide California as it implements its own doula benefit.

Contact: Center for Health Care Strategies, 300 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 125, Hamilton, NJ 08619, Telephone: (609) 528-8400 Fax: (609) 586-3679 Web Site: http://www.chcs.org

Keywords: Doulas, Financing, Medicaid, State initiatives

Center for Health Care Strategies. 2022. Incorporating community-based doulas into Medicaid: State and plan considerations to encourage doula participation. Hamilton, NJ: Center for Health Care Strategies, 4 pp.

Annotation: This fact sheet outlines strategies for incorporating community-based doulas into Medicaid to improve maternal health outcomes. It describes how doulas provide emotional, physical, and informational support during pregnancy and can help reduce high-risk pregnancies, low birthweight babies, and cesarean section rates, particularly benefiting communities with high maternal mortality rates. The document presents three key strategies for state Medicaid agencies and managed care organizations to support doulas in becoming Medicaid providers: engaging doulas in benefit design and implementation, allowing diverse doula training organizations to meet community needs, and simplifying the Medicaid enrollment process. Examples from states like Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia illustrate successful approaches such as creating advisory groups, hosting stakeholder meetings, accepting both national and BIPOC-led training organizations, and providing enrollment guidance. The resource emphasizes the importance of a diverse workforce that meets the needs of birthing individuals.

Contact: Center for Health Care Strategies, 300 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 125, Hamilton, NJ 08619, Telephone: (609) 528-8400 Fax: (609) 586-3679 Web Site: http://www.chcs.org

Keywords: Childbirth, Community health services, Doulas, Financing, Health insurance, Maternal mortality, Medicaid, Prevention, State initiatives

Pettiford BD, DeLauro R, Cole T. 2022. AMCHP Board President Testimony Before House Appropriations Subcommittee. [Washington, DC]: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 10 m 08 s.

Annotation: On May 26, 2022, Belinda D. Pettiford, MPH, AMCHP Board President, delivered testimony before the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee during their FY2023 Public Witness Day, advocating for $1 billion in funding for the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant. Pettiford emphasized how these equitably distributed grants have effectively improved maternal and child health outcomes across all states and territories through evidence-based, flexible programs that deliver measurable results. Her testimony highlighted priority initiatives including maternal mortality prevention, support for families with children having special healthcare needs, and addressing healthcare inequities. Following her presentation, which occupied approximately half the allocated time, subcommittee members contributed their own observations and comments regarding the funding request.

Contact: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 1825 K Street, N.W., Suite 250, Washington, DC 20006-1202, Telephone: (202) 775-0436 Fax: (202) 478-5120 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.amchp.org

Keywords: Title V programs, Block grants, MCH programs, Government financing, Congressional hearings, Race

2022. American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Innovative MCH Fund Applications. Washington, DC: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 7 pp. (Issue Brief)

Annotation: AMCHP outlines its guidance on utilizing American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for Maternal and Child Health initiatives in this report from 2022. It showcases innovative state-level programs funded through COVID-19 relief, particularly focusing on telehealth services, and includes examples from multiple states such as Alaska's Virtual Home Visiting Summit and Massachusetts' Community Telehealth Kiosk. The document also provides comprehensive resources from various organizations about ARPA implementation, including funding breakdowns, policy guidance, and strategic planning tools for maximizing the impact of federal relief funds on children and families.

Contact: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 1825 K Street, N.W., Suite 250, Washington, DC 20006-1202, Telephone: (202) 775-0436 Fax: (202) 478-5120 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.amchp.org

Keywords: MCH programs, Staff development, Government financing, Covid-19, Telemedicine,

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