History of Topics Discussed

Family Planning Waiver Evaluation History of Topics Discussed

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
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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