History of Topics Discussed
The list below includes all meeting meetings through April 2014. For current meeting minutes, please go here.
March 2013: LARCs in the Context of Medicaid and Medicaid Expansions Services
February 2013 Using the IOM Recommendations as a Framework for Lessons Learned
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 -Part Two
March 2012 Evaluating Waiver Successes – Part One
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
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
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
AugustSeptember 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
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
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
May 2008 Proposed Measure for Estimating the Use of Effective Contraceptive Methods
February 2008 Collection of Comparable Data on a Set of Medicaid Family Planning Indicators
January 2008 Referrals for Primary Care and Topics for 2008
December 2007 Evaluating Coverage of STIs by the Medicaid Waiver
August 2007 NC’s Methodology for Calculating Baseline Fertility
May 2007 Revisiting Birth Spacing as an Outcome Measure for Medicaid Family Planning Waivers
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
November 2006 NC Method for Calculating the Population Eligible for the Waiver
September 2006 Draft Model Budget Neutrality Worksheets and Instructions
July 2006 Discussion Draft Common Definitions and Procedures
April 2006 Measurement of Birth Intervals
February 2006 Measurement of Budget Neutrality
January 2006 Measurement of Budget Neutrality