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How Medicaid Can Better Support Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs

Episode 5 of Season 5 of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange features insight on children with special health care needs.

Supporting families of children with special health care needs is critical to ensuring their health and well-being, and helping them stay together as a family. This episode of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast explores how Medicaid agencies can better serve children with special health care needs and their families. The episode emphasizes the importance of partnering across silos and opening lines of communication between agencies and the people they serve. It also discusses OhioRISE, an innovative managed care program for youth with complex behavioral health and multisystem needs.

The conversation features perspectives from Ohio Medicaid leaders and a parent advocate:

  • Maureen Corcoran, Medicaid director, Ohio Department of Medicaid
  • Sala Webb, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP, chief medical officer, Aetna Better Health of Ohio, OhioRISE
  • Mark Butler, parent advocate, OhioRISE Advisory Council Member

The episode is hosted by Jami Snyder, former Arizona and Texas Medicaid director and president and CEO, JSN Strategies. The Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast explores priority topics for Medicaid leaders. It is developed in partnership by the National Association of Medicaid Directors and the Center for Health Care Strategies through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

You can listen to the podcast here.

The Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast explores priority topics for Medicaid leaders. It is developed in partnership by National Association of Medicaid Directors and CHCS through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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