An Update on Medicaid & Private Coverage Reforms
Part 1 of HPIO's 3 Part Series Health Care Coverage: Are There Lessons From Other States?
This forum, held September 5, 2006, examined reform of both Medicaid and private health insurance coverage.
Publications:
Speakers' presentations
(Sept. 2006, pdf format, 1 MB)
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Speakers:
Alice Burton is Vice President of AcademyHealth, where she leads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program and AcademyHealth’s work with states. She works with state policy leaders to develop strategies to improve insurance coverage and has participated in numerous task forces on the uninsured – as a member and an advisor. She contributes regularly to publications for states or health coverage. Previously, Ms. Burton was the director of the planning administration at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In that role, she was responsible developing policy initiatives for the Maryland Medicaid program, the Maryland Children’s Health Insurance program and other health care financing programs. She developed and oversaw the HealthChoice Evaluation, the state’s first comprehensive evaluation of the Medicaid managed care program and worked to implement recommendations coming out of that report. She also served as a leader for Maryland’s Health Resources and Services Administration Planning Grant on the uninsured. Ms. Burton is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and holds a master’s degree in health policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Barbara Coulter Edwards, Principal, Health Management Associates (HMA), has over 25 years of public and private sector experience in health care financing and is a nationally recognized expert in Medicaid policy, including managed care, cost containment, long term care, and state and federal reform. Ms. Edwards is a frequent national presenter on Medicaid trends, Medicare Part D, and state health policy challenges. She has extensive experience in leading strategic planning and organizational change initiatives in public agencies. Prior to joining HMA, Ms. Edwards served 8 years as director of Ohio’s $12 billion Medicaid program. She served on the federal State Pharmacy Assistance Program Transition Commission regarding implementation of Medicare Part D, served on the National Quality Forum Steering Committee which recommended standards for nursing home care, and was vice chair of the National Association of State Medicaid Directors. Ms. Edwards has testified before both the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding state Medicaid and SCHIP programs.
