NGA Launches Year-Long Study Of Three States' Medicaid Reforms For Broader Application

The National Governors Association is kicking off a year-long project in Alabama, Nevada and Washington state to study workforce transformation, multi-payer initiatives, and sharing savings efforts underway in those states' Medicaid programs for potential broader application. Carol Backstrom, program director for NGA's health division, said she hopes that CMS and the states will come to agreement on promising concepts for statewide Medicaid transformation, although she cautioned that NGA is in the early stages of the process. NGA chose the three...