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Promising Medicaid-Based Strategies to Address the Food Needs of Children and Families
Medicaid Food Security Network
April 2024
This Promising Strategies document provides an overview of promising strategies that food security advocates can use to collaborate with Medicaid agencies to incorporate food strategies in Medicaid Managed Care (MCO) contracts, benefit design and waivers. These strategies are designed to address the full range of food needs of Medicaid enrollees, especially children and families.
Food is Medicine: A State Medicaid Policy Toolkit
Food is Medicine Coalition and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School
July 2024
This resource seeks to assist state policymakers looking to explore, adopt, or implement opportunities for addressing nutrition and severe, complex or chronic illness in state Medicaid populations. The Toolkit summarizes the legal underpinnings of each Medicaid authority and describes the nutrition services allowed, beneficiaries targeted, additional requirements, and application processes for each policy pathway.
Leveraging Data and Streamlining Processes: Recommendations for SNAP in the 2023 Farm Bill
Benefits Data Trust
June 2023
Benefits Data Trust (BDT) is a national non-profit that helps people live more independently by creating smarter ways to access essential benefits and services. BDT partners with states and health care, higher education, and training organizations to (1) Provide outreach and assistance to individuals and (2) Modernize the system for efficiency and equity. They wrote these Farm Bill comments in strong support of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), an essential resource for families with positive impacts that ripple across communities. In this document, you will find their recommendations for the 2023 Farm Bill reauthorization.
Moving to the Vanguard on Pediatric Care: Child and Adolescent Health Initiative Recommendations for the MassHealth Section 1115 Waiver Renewal
Massachusetts Child and Adolescent Health Initiative
September 2020
With the MassHealth Section 1115 waiver slated to expire in June 2022, the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has supported a multi-sector Child and Adolescent Health Initiative (CAHI) to review how the upcoming waiver renewal can be used to strengthen care for the one in three Massachusetts’ children enrolled in MassHealth. CAHI includes leading MassHealth accountable care organization (ACO) pediatric providers and other child health experts, experts in social needs and community health, family members with lived experiences and parent engagement experts. educators, and behavioral health experts.