About the Plan
A national not-for-profit Safety Net Health Plan associate the health plan is a member of
What is: Associate for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP)
AHCCCS is an acronym for?
What is: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Program built to serve the most vulnerable based on income.
What is: Medicaid
Board member who was a guest on NRP’s Weekend Edition broadcast and played the weekly quiz with Will Shortz (NY Times Crossword editor).
Who is: Dr Joseph Gregory
Board member who is a Lumberjack married to a Wildcat, stared in two TV commercials, and has an impressive hat collection.
Who is: Jim Stringham
The original name the health plans member persona
What is: Ana
The year what AHCCCS founded.
What is: 1982
List two State and/or Federal trends
What is:
TREND 1: Workforce crises
TREND 2: MORE Medicaid, not less
TREND 3: Work Requirements are back on the menu
TREND 4: States are settling into more precise SDoH buckets for federal funding asks
TREND 5: MH BH investments
TREND 6: new wave of eligibility system enhancements
TREND 7: renewed focus on FWA
Board member who is a Sun Devil and licensed psychologist
Who is: Dr. Shar Najafi-Piper
Takes the best board minutes in Health Plan Board history.
Who is: Rhonda Wolfe
Original name of the health plan
What is: University Physicians Health Plan
First Director of AHCCCS
Who is: Donald Schaller
Percent of Americans now on Medicare or Medicaid
What is 46%
Board member who is a Sun Devil and an ASU Gymnast
Who is: Aaron Sinykin
Board member who is an east coaster that graduated from Rutgers University and can outrun anyone in the room
Who is: Donna Sickler
The year AHCCCS approved the Banner merger (100 bonus points for approval month)
What is: November 2014
AHCCCS' Mission
What is: Reaching across Arizona to provide comprehensive, quality health care to those in need.
Total Medicaid spend between 1966-2014
What is: $7.2 Trillion
Board member who is an Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs for the University of Arizona, whose favorite hobby with walking the beaches of southern Costa Rica
Who is: Dr Ann Mathias, D.O.
Year of when the last time board retreat was.
What is: 2019
Excluding Maricopa and Pima, what rural county does the plan have the most Medicaid membership?
What is: is Yuma with 43,841 members for ACC and 912 for ALTCS
AHCCCS Values (hint there are 9 of them)
What is: Passion, Community, Quality, Respect, Accountability, Innovation, Teamwork, Leadership, and Courage
Total Medicaid spend between 2014-2022
What is: $5.5 Trillion
Board member who worked their way through college driving buses, has visited all 50 states and started their career with Banner in Fargo, North Dakota
Who is: Chuck Lehn
Name 5 past Board members (100 bonus points if can name 7)
Who are: Dr Tom Ball, Rick Slaughter, Kris Kreutz, James Stover, Mike Zenobi, Tammy Magallanes, Dennis Dahlen, Tom Dickson, Dr. Robert Groves, Kathy Oestreich, Dr. Andy Theodorou, Dennis Laraway, Dr Gordon Carr, Larry Goldberg, Susie Huhn, Dr. Josh Lee