Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Reform Policy Committee (MMPC)
Retreat
Tuesday June 11th & Wednesday June 12th, 2013
9:00 AM-5:00 PM EST (each day)
Call in number: NIHB conference line: 1-866-303-3137
Passcode: 414526
Crowne Plaza Portland Downtown Convention Center
1441 NE 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97232
AGENDA
Purpose: Two full days to review and provide updates and detailed discussion of 2013 MMPC Action Plan priorities and assignments.
Outcomes:
- Continue work on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) health policy issues, regulation review and identify priority issues and desired outcomes;;
- Review current strategies and process for advancing issues;,
- Formulate new strategies on pending issues; and,
- Identify specific tasks, timeframes, make assignments and identify process for tracking outcomes and accomplishments.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
9:00 am Welcome
Opening Prayer
Introductions
9:10 am Review of Agenda, Purpose of Meeting and General Housekeeping Items
- Discuss and Review new format and process for tracking MMPC Action Plan and Assignments
9:30 am Regulations Review Update ()
10:10 am Discussion on Priority Issues (Active, New and Ongoing MMPC/TTAG Issues) & Identify Specific Outcomes, Strategies, Assignments and Next Steps:
- State Exchanges
- Medicaid waiver
- Arizona model, California model
- Premium Assistance Model
- Tribal consultation for insurance marketplaces
- Strategy to engage CMS & IRS regarding determining eligibility for AI/AN provisions in Health Insurance Exchange Applications
- Federally Facilitated Exchanges Application
- Outreach and enrollment efforts
- Medicaid Expansion
- Qualified Health Plan Indian Addendum
- Review provisions in the CMS-proposed template for the Qualified Health Plan (Indian) Addendum that are inconsistent with Federal law and identify appropriate revisions to the documentDefinition of Indian
- Review and engage in discussions on the HHS/IHS-proposed and the Tribal-proposed legislative fix to the current definition of Indian referenced in the Affordable Care Act, with the goal of identifying changes needed to draft a single remedy that is likely to be supported by HHS/IHS and Tribal representativesElectronic Verification for Eligibility for Indian Specific Provisions
- Review Tribal recommendations for the implementation of a mechanism enabling electronic verification of eligibility for Indian-specific health care benefits and protections, and to discuss options for the consideration, approval and implementation by IHS, CMS and HHS of such a mechanism.
- Hardship Extension for tax penalty for AI/AN who are IHS beneficiaries
- Review Tribal recommendations on the establishment of an exemption(s) for all AI/ANs from the tax penalties for not securing “minimum essential coverage,” and to discuss options for the consideration, approval and implementation of such exemptions by CMS and the Internal Revenue Service
- Tribal Hospital EHR Charity Care Calculation
- Navigators and non-navigator personnel
Noon- 1:30 pm Lunch – On Your Own
1:30 pm Continue Discussion of Priority Issues
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Prepare for June 12th TTAG Teleconference g
- Prepare TTAG Talking Points
4:45 pm Re-Cap
5:00 pm Adjourn MMPC for Day
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
9:00 am Invocation
9:10 am Finalize Discussion on Any Remaining Issues & Update MMPC Action Plan & Assignments
11:30 am – 1:30 pm Monthly TTAG Teleconference (possible catered lunch)
1:30 pm Break
2:00 pm Re-convene MMPC Meeting:
- Review Issues, Strategies and Make Assignments (including timeframes)
- Process for Tracking Tasks, Outcomes and Accomplishments
- Finalize MMPC Action Plan
3:15 pm Prepare for July TTAG Face-to-Face Meeting
- Identification of Agenda Items & Priority Issues
- Briefing for TTAG Leadership
4:30 pm Re-cap and Next Steps
5:00 pm Adjourn MMPC Retreat
Upcoming Calls/Meeting dates
July 16, 2013 MMPC Face to Face Meeting, Washington, D.C.
July 17-18, 2013 TTAG Face to Face Meeting, Washington, D.C.
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