Events

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), in collaboration with the Center of Excellence to Align Health and Social Care (powered by USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute), invites community-based organizations serving as community care hubs (CCHs) or interested in learning more about the community care hub model to participate in an upcoming four-part Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. A community care hub (CCH) is a community-focused entity that organizes and supports a network of community-based organizations providing services to address health-related social needs. It centralizes administrative functions and operational infrastructure, including but not limited to, contracting with health care organizations, payment operations, management of referrals, service delivery fidelity and compliance, technology, information security, data collection, and reporting. Each webinar will focus on the foundational elements of serving as a community care hub. The webinars will showcase examples from leading community care hubs as well as resources available to support community-based organizations in forming, operationalizing, and launching a hub in their community. Register today for the Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. Introduction to Community Care Hubs: November 16, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Community Care Hubs Core Functions: November 30, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Contracting Opportunities to Address Health-Related Social Needs: December 7, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Building the Community Care Hub Business Case: December 14, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Registrants will receive access to all four webinars. All registrants will receive a copy of the webinar slides and follow-up resources. The webinars will be auto-captioned on Zoom.

Contracting to Align Health and Social Care Ecosystems: A Webinar Series Sharing Leading Practices Join the Partnership to Align Social Care, the Aging and Disability Business Institute, and Camden Coalition for a webinar series offering a deep dive into leading contracting practices to effectively and efficiently address HRSNs. Each webinar in the series will focus on the essential elements of contracting between health care and community partners and feature leading practices from the field. Each event will also highlight key findings from a four-part toolkit, Healthcare Guide to Contracting with CBOs, developed with extensive input from CBOs, health plans, and health systems. While these resources were developed for a healthcare audience, CBOs, CCHs, and other health and social care ecosystem stakeholders will benefit from understanding how healthcare organizations approach the contracting process.

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), in collaboration with the Center of Excellence to Align Health and Social Care (powered by USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute), invites community-based organizations serving as community care hubs (CCHs) or interested in learning more about the community care hub model to participate in an upcoming four-part Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. A community care hub (CCH) is a community-focused entity that organizes and supports a network of community-based organizations providing services to address health-related social needs. It centralizes administrative functions and operational infrastructure, including but not limited to, contracting with health care organizations, payment operations, management of referrals, service delivery fidelity and compliance, technology, information security, data collection, and reporting. Each webinar will focus on the foundational elements of serving as a community care hub. The webinars will showcase examples from leading community care hubs as well as resources available to support community-based organizations in forming, operationalizing, and launching a hub in their community. Register today for the Community Care Hub 101 Learning Series. The series will take place on four Thursdays in mid-November through December 2023. Introduction to Community Care Hubs: November 16, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Community Care Hubs Core Functions: November 30, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Contracting Opportunities to Address Health-Related Social Needs: December 7, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Building the Community Care Hub Business Case: December 14, 2023, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET Registrants will receive access to all four webinars. All registrants will receive a copy of the webinar slides and follow-up resources. The webinars will be auto-captioned on Zoom.

In this webinar, the Administration for Community Living and the Aging and Disability Business Institute will discuss opportunities for our network to engage in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center's new dementia care initiative, known as the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model. GUIDE focuses on dementia care management with the intent to support people living with dementia and their caregivers in their homes and communities for as long as possible. This webinar will explore the roles of aging network organizations and rationale for developing and delivering sustainable contracted services. Members of the aging network are well-positioned to participate in and/or partner with this program as providers of the range of home and community services required by CMS Innovation Center. This webinar will provide important details on how to become meaningfully involved in this initiative. The webinar will conclude with a question-and-answer period. Presenters:  Greg Link, Administration on Aging, ACL Erin Long, Administration on Aging, ACL Marisa Scala-Foley, USAging

Participant direction (self-direction) allows people with disabilities to be in control of the services they receive by managing and hiring personal care providers of their choice. Centers for Independent Living (CILs) are uniquely positioned to provide self-directed services with their long history as disability-led organizations applying independent living practices and supporting people with disabilities. Health care payers are adopting self -direction to allow people with disabilities to direct services that address unmet service needs, creating contracting opportunities for CILs. Join this technical assistance webinar for CILs designed to foster CIL operation of participant-directed service programs funded through Medicaid managed care, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and other health payers. In this webinar, CIL leaders and staff will learn how they can work with managed care organizations (MCOs) and other health care entities to provide self-directed care, as well as learn how to approach and negotiate with health payers to form these partnerships. Presenters Molly Morris, Vice President, Applied Self-Direction Suzanne Crisp, Senior Advisor, Public Partnerships Group, LLC Amber O’Haver, Chief Revolutionary Officer / Owner, Disability Revolution Moderator Richard Petty, Director, IL NET Training and Technical Assistance Center for CILs and SILCs 

Data, Billing and Coding: What AAAs, CBOs and Networks Need to Know The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new health related social needs (HRSN) screening— at the hospital inpatient level and with physicians — are providing Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), and community-based organizations (CBOs) with opportunities to expand partnerships with health clinicians to better serve clients and caregivers. The opportunities also require agencies to manage social determinant of health data and technology standards and workflow realities that exist when sharing care between health, post acute and social care eco-systems. This webinar series will provide information about the new opportunities to partner with health clinicians, and the related data, information exchange and related billing/payment models being advanced by CMS. Billing Codes and Data Exchange 101 Join this webinar to learn about the basics of billing codes, data sets and information exchange critical to working in the integrated care landscape, including key terms and actors in the coding and data exchange space. Experts in the data and standards world will explain why these issues are critical for AAAs, CBOs and networks addressing health-related social needs through contracts with health care entities.

The Center of Excellence to Align Health and Social Care (COE), part of the Aging and Disability Business Institute at USAging, is supported by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through a cooperative agreement totaling approximately $12 million over a three-year period with 100 percent funding by ACL/HHS. The purpose of the COE is to develop, expand, connect and support sustainable, high functioning aging and disability CCHs – and the networks of downstream providers that they lead – throughout the country through infrastructure funding and technical assistance. This informational call will provide key applicant details regarding this new funding opportunity’s request for proposal (RFP).

Data, Billing and Coding: What AAAs, CBOs and Networks Need to Know The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new health related social needs (HRSN) screening— at the hospital inpatient level and with physicians — are providing Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), and community-based organizations (CBOs) with opportunities to expand partnerships with health clinicians to better serve clients and caregivers. The opportunities also require agencies to manage social determinant of health data and technology standards and workflow realities that exist when sharing care between health, post acute and social care eco-systems. This webinar series will provide information about the new opportunities to partner with health clinicians, and the related data, information exchange and related billing/payment models being advanced by CMS. The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Opportunities for AAAs, CBOs and Networks Join this webinar for a deeper dive into the 2024 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This rule creates new codes to address health-related social needs and encourages CBO collaboration with health care partners. Speakers will discuss what this means for AAAs, CBOs and networks; their systems, workflows and professional teams; and how the changes create opportunities for contracting.

Join the Aging and Disability Business Institute in partnership with ILRU for a discussion with colleagues from the U.S. Administration on Community Living (ACL) and Centers for Independent Living (CIL) on the value of the community care hub (CCH) model in supporting the advancement of independent living and bringing social care expertise to health care organizations. With increased attention on the impact of health-related social needs (HRSNs), CILs are positioning themselves to partner and contract with health care organizations in providing social care services that are core to independent living. A growing number of CILs and other community-based organizations (CBOs) are entering into contracts as part of a CBO network led by a CCH. CCHs provide administrative and operational infrastructure for a network of CBOs and enable efficient contracting and sustainable financing to better serve populations in need. This webinar will define and introduce the CCH model, illustrate the various roles for CILs in engaging in a CCH-led network, and feature CIL leaders and their experiences in partnering with a CCH and operationalizing health care contracts through the CCH model.