Session: Medicaid: Reaching Those In Need
4254.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Medicaid: Reaching Those In Need
Papers will identify identify two methodologies used to measure return on community investment in access-to-care programs, and challenges for state medicaid systems in reaching vulnerable populations. They will discuss perceptions of health care quality of vulnerable populations, the national quideline for preventive health in Healthy People 2010 and certain policy implications of Medicaid.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)identify two methodologies used to measure return on community investment in access-to-care programs; 2)identify challenges for state medicaid systems in reaching vulnerable populations; and 3)discuss perceptions of health care quality of vulnerable populations.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Ruth B. Pickard, PhD
4:30 PMBuilding sustainability for an innovative community safety-net program: Converting outcomes into dollars
Lisa Baumann, MHA, Peter C. Olden, PhD, Rick Wilk, MPH, MBA, Steven J. Szydlowski, MBA, MHA, David Rogoff, MHA, Constance Wisdo, MS
4:42 PMEstablishing Medicaid-based collaboration models to promote public health objectives
Lila Herndon Vizzard, MPH, Elizabeth Riggs, MPH, Nurit R. Fischler, MS, Joanne Rogovoy, BS, Saundra Ivey, RN, MSN, CRNP, Robin Allison, MA, Scott D. Berns, MD, MPH
4:54 PMMajority of Minorities: Perceptions of health care quality and access in a multi-ethnic population
Cynthia Marie Saunders, PhD, MPH
5:06 PMNational guidelines for preventive health services delivery: An albatross around the neck of Healthy People 2010?
Robert S. Levine, MD, Nathaniel C. Briggs, MD, MSc, Baqar A. Husaini, PhD, Pamela C. Hull, PhD, Rubens J. Pamies, MD, Susan Tropez-Sims, MD, Janice S. Emerson, MA
5:18 PMPolicy implications of the Medicaid phenomenon in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
Monica L. Wendel, MA, MPH, Michael R.J. Felix, James N Burdine, Dr PH, Julie Ann Parrish, MA, Coleman Chandler, MPH, Jay Jezierski, MPH, Sanu Somachandran, MPH, Rachel Annette Summers
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA