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Waiver Whirled
How does your garden grow?
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Special Delivery!
Calgon ... Take me away!
100
CMS granted an amendment and an extension of this type of waiver to MassHealth in 2016.
What is a Section 1115 Research and Demonstration Waiver?
100
This type of cut flower was displayed on Betteanne's desk in May.
What are daffodils?
100
This CHLE professor teaches a course at Tufts University Medical School each Spring.
Who is Professor Seifert?
100
In a Partnership ACO (Model A), this group contracts with MassHealth.
What is a partnership comprised of an MCO and an ACO?
100
This CHLE staffer went to Hawai'i in 2016.
Who is Rebecca?
200
The HHS Secretary does this exercise every time s/he decides whether to approve an 1115 waiver request.
What is exercise discretion?
200
This type of cut flower was displayed on Betteanne's desk in June.
What are peonies?
200
These three babies are a big part of the lives of Lisa, Donna and Rachel.
Who are Graeme, Samantha and Ella?
200
In a Primary Care ACO (Model B), this provider type bills MassHealth in the same way as it did in 2015.
What is primary care doctors?
200
This CHLE staffer went to Tennessee in 2016.
Who is Marybeth?
300
This is one way that States submitting 1115 waiver applications show they care about what others think.
What is Stakeholder Engagement?
300
This type of cut flower was displayed on Betteanne's desk in July.
What are roses?
300
An article written by Rachel Gershon on this topic was published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics in 2016.
What is language access?
300
In a Managed Care ACO (Model C), this group contracts with MassHealth.
What is the MCO?
300
These CHLE staffers went to Toronto in 2016.
Who are Rebecca and Marybeth?
400
When authorized in an 1115 waiver application, CMS allows States to claim federal matching funds for this type of program.
What is Designated State Health Program (DSHP)?
400
This type of cut flower was displayed on Betteanne's desk in August.
What are daisies?
400
This CHLE employee went to the State of Washington to assist with SIM grant sustainability.
Who is Katharine London?
400
The common name for providers of long-term services and supports (LTSS) and behavioral health (BH) services selected to be part of an ACO network.
What are Community Partners?
400
This CHLE staffer finally made it to Turks and Caicos in December 2016.
Who is Kelly?
500
This CHLE staffer wrote a blog about waivers in 2016.
Who is Rachel Gershon?
500
This type of cut flower was displayed on Betteanne's desk in September.
What are sunflowers?
500
This person has been nominated to be the new federal Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Who is Tom Price?
500
Name three of the six types of managed care entities included in the MassHealth program beginning in January 2018.
What are: 1. Senior Care Organizations (SCO) 2. Integrated Care Organizations (One Care) 3. Managed Care Organizations (PCC Plan) 4. Partnership Plan ACOs (Model A) 5. Primary Care ACOs (Model B) 6. MCO ACOs (Model C)
500
This CHLE team went to Norfolk in November 2016.
Who are Jean, Josh, Rachel and Marybeth?