To streamline processes and ensure proper management, it’s very beneficial to have an outside vendor perform a state’s Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) State Self-Assessment (SS-A), compile documents, and track information. A MITA subject matter expert (SME) will make unbiased recommendations based on documentation received by the state. Sometimes when an assessment is done in-house, [...]
After spending nearly $800 million on eight seasons of Game of Thrones, many fans were disappointed in the results, and few of the surviving characters were happier or better off by the time the story ended. Don’t let your Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) end like Game of Thrones. You may find yourself [...]
Offering assistance with Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) State Self-Assessments (SS-A) is a crucial netlogx service that aligns business and information technology components of a program, helping those who manage Medicaid services. It also ultimately improves the delivery of service to Medicaid beneficiaries. In the past, I worked with some netlogx team members to complete [...]
Having worked for the government in some capacity, either as an employee or a consultant, for most of my career I always say that I am not political. During my years working in social services, I quickly learned that when people are hungry, need access to affordable housing, or cannot afford to buy lifesaving medicine, [...]
Certifying a Medicaid Management Information System is a lot like building a house. The desired outcome is obvious, but unless you’ve built a house before, it’s hard to know where to begin. As any engineer or building contractor understands, even the best designs and plans can be interrupted through external factors, such as weather delays, [...]
The most valuable resource for any organization is the people that are employed and the knowledge and attitude of caring that they bring every day. Every executive, director, department manager, and employee can point you to the people that keep an organization running whether it is through their knowledge, dedication to long hours (that never [...]
After observing different vendors perform State Self-Assessments (SS-A) in multiple States, I had lots of thoughts about how to improve the process. During these projects, I listened to my State colleagues’ concerns about the amount of time, staff resources, and money an SS-A incurs. I started to notice in the States that I worked with [...]
As mentioned in my previous blog post, the MITA Framework Version 3.0 expanded on the definition of the State Self-Assessment or SS-A. The new and improved SS-A required a significant amount of work. State Medicaid Agencies were required to compare their business operations to the MITA business process model, identify systems and how they support [...]
During the mid-2000s, the federal government made numerous legislative changes that impacted and shaped the direction of the Medicaid program including (but not limited to): the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), the Patient Protection and [...]
Chapter 2: MITA 2.0 and BH MITA The Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) Framework has evolved since its initial inception and so has the Medicaid Enterprise. I have worked in multiple states and can see how Medicaid differed from state to state. But I have also seen the many similarities. A few years after the [...]
