Family Planning Waiver Evaluation History of Topics Discussed

March 2013

LARCs in the Context of Medicaid and Medicaid Expansions Services

February 2013

Using the IOM Recommendations as a Framework for Lessons Learned

January 2013

Refining the Questions of Interest that Our Group Has Experience and Data to Frame and Inform

December 2012

Whether and How to Develop Lessons Learned; Identifying Stakeholders and their Interests

November 2012

State Experience with LARCs; Status of State Data on Common Indicators

October 2012

Updates from Participating States

September 2012

FL and OPA Updates; Testing Specific Hypotheses Using Cross-State Data

August 2012

Review of Group's Mission Leads to Initial Common Data Template
July 2012 No Conference Call

June 2012

Refining Common Indicators and Available Data; Identifying New Questions

May 2012

Formulating Waiver Success Data to Inform State Family Planning Programs

April 2012

Evaluating Waiver Successes - continued...

March 2012

Evaluating Waiver Successes - Part One

February 2012

Identifying the Four Key Stakeholders: State Program Leadership, Insurance Companies/Payors, Family Planning Providers, Federal Government

January 2012

Waiver Legacy: Determining Stakeholders' Interest in Lessons Learned

December 2011

Focusing on Evaluation Indicators: Tracking Clinical Outcomes
November 2011 Syncing Family Planning Waiver Indicators with National Measures

October 2011

Focusing on Evaluation Indicators: Tracking Clinical Outcomes
September 2011 Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight: Useful Priority Indicators for Comparison?
August 2011 Continued Discussion of the Selection of a Common Measure of Birth or Pregnancy Spacing
July 2011 Indicators of Risk and Optimal Birth and Pregnancy Intervals
June 2011 Consideration of Priority Indicators for Comparison: Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, Age at First Birth and Inter-Pregnancy Interval
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May 2011 Priority Indicators for Comparison
April 2011 Comparative Benchmarking: Financial Indicators
March 2011 Next Steps for Comparative Benchmarking Using Selected Indicators
February 2011 Presentation on "Estimating the Impact of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Family Planning Services: 2011 Update" (Guttmacher Institute Report)
January 2011 Selection of Fifteen Indicators for Cross-State Comparison
December 2010 Selecting Indicators to Track Family Planning Waiver Success: Continued Discussion
November 2010 State Updates Concerning SPAs vs Waivers, and Selecting Indicators to Illustrate Waiver Success
October 2010 FP Waivers vs State Plan Amendments (SPAs): Considerations and Issues, continued
September 2010 FP Waivers vs State Plan Amendments (SPAs): Considerations and Issues
July/August 2010 No Conference Calls
June 2010 Compiling Waiver Indicators / Electronic Medical Records
May 2010 Calculating Budget Neutrality
April 2010 Thinking About the Status of FP Waivers in the Wake of Health Care Reform
March 2010

Addressing Key Topics of Interest to Waiver Evaluators

February 2010

Identifying and Tracking Services Provided Through the Family Planning Waiver

January 2010

Consideration of Common Indicators, Especially Budget Neutrality and Births Averted

December 2009

Feedback from CMS about Recommendations for Evaluation of Primary Care Referrals

November 2009 Finalizing Recommendations to CMS re: Primary Care Referrals
October 2009 No Conference Call
August/September 2009 Recommendations re: Primary Care Referrals in Title X Programs
July 2009 Considering Provider Mix as an Issue to be able to Compare Measures Across Programs
June 2009 Reviewing Benchmark Measures for FP Waivers
May 2009 No Conference Call

April 2009

Topics and Timelines for Common Definitions for Benchmarks, Provider Mix and State Service Profiles; Writing in Collaboration

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March 2009

Primary Care Referrals:  Definitions, Methods and Findings

February 2009

Website Organization and Refining Definitions for Common Indicators

January 2009

Establishing a Group Website, Reviewing Progress to Date and Topics for 2009

December 2008

Participation of Providers, Availability of Reimbursement Data To Compare CPT Codes Used and Patterns of Reimbursement across States

November 2008

Indicators Related to Provider Mix and Provider Capacity and Procedure Codes

July 2008

Discussion of State Data for  Expected Births and Births Averted and Methods of Calculation

June 2008

Updated Indicator Data and Discussion of Indicators Related to Expected Births and Births Averted

May 2008

Proposed Measure for Estimating the Use of Effective Contraceptive Methods

April 2008

Continuation of Comparable Data with Discussion of Indicators (Percent of eligible population enrolled; enrolled population seen for waiver-covered service and percent of eligible population seen for any waiver-covered service)

March 2008

Continued Discussion of Comparable Data and Discussion of Methods of Estimating Population Eligible for the Family Planning Waiver

February 2008

Collection of Comparable Data on a Set of Medicaid Family Planning Indicators

January 2008

Referrals for Primary Care and Topics for 2008

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December 2007

Evaluating Coverage of STIs by the Medicaid Waiver

November 2007

Follow-up Discussion on the Usefulness of Unintended Pregnancy Rate as an Outcome Measure

September 2007

Outcome Measures Used by Virginia [Carpenter] and Measurement of Unintended Pregnancy in SC

August 2007

NC’s Methodology for Calculating Baseline Fertility

May 2007

Revisiting Birth Spacing as an Outcome Measure for Medicaid Family Planning Waivers

April 2007

Investigating the Possibility of Getting Consistent Population-in-Need Estimates for Each State With a Waiver

March 2007

Outreach Efforts: Measuring Their Success and Identifying the Most Successful

February 2007

Scheduling Topics for Future Calls

January 2007

What Issues Do We Want to Talk About on Future Calls

December 2006

Status of Florida’s Medicaid Family Planning Renewal [Lange and Roth] and How States Are Doing Relative to Quantifying Their Objectives

November 2006

NC Method for Calculating the Population Eligible for the Waiver

October 2006

Beginning Discussion on the Collection of Data from the Region IV Waiver States Using Common Definitions

September 2006

Draft Model Budget Neutrality Worksheets and Instructions

August 2006

Methods to Include Third Party Liability Collections in Budget Neutrality and Use of CMS64Data

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July 2006

Discussion Draft Common Definitions and Procedures

June 2006

“Alabama Model” for Calculating Budget Neutrality [Sonfield and Bronstein] and Region IV Common Definitions

May 2006

Working with CMS and the ListServe Being Developed by California  and Birth Interval Discussion Follow-up

April 2006

Measurement of Birth Intervals

March 2006

Measurement of Budget Neutrality and Best Way to Estimate the Population of Women Eligible for SOBRA in the Pre-Waiver Baseline

February 2006

Measurement of Budget Neutrality

January 2006

Measurement of Budget Neutrality

December 2005

Eligibility Criteria and Definitions of Enrollee, Participant, User/Client, and New User/Client

November 2005

Outcome Measures

October 2005

Plan for the Calls

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