National Association of Medicaid Directors’ Post

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Hello friends, Keith McAvoy for the entire NMD team. Wishing you wonderful holidays and a happy and healthy New Year. Looking back on 2024, what a year it has been for the Medicaid program. As we came together for our largest ever fall meeting, we reflected on so many important strands of this work. Unwinding and eligibility compliance staging to implement a significant new package of federal rules. Innovation all across the country, notably including reentry work and first ever coverage of diapers for children in Tennessee and palliative care in Hawaii. And AMD announced that we have entered our inaugural federal cooperative agreement with the Health Resources Services Administration, giving incredible new opportunities to routinize partnerships between Medicaid and public health leaders. And we are all preparing for a significant federal transition and leadership. We had NMD continued to be proud and privileged to represent all 56 state and territory Medicaid programs, as well as the District of Columbia. There is extraordinary work going on all across the country to make the Medicaid program as person centered, accountable and innovative as possible. Our reason for being at any MD is to support directors and now over 500 senior leaders of their teams to collaborate with CMS and her other diverse federal partners and so many of you who join us in doing the hugely important work of serving nearly 80 million members of Medicaid. And check, that's nearly one in five of our fellow Americans. Looking forward to 2025, we are anticipating our annual membership meeting in June. That's an important opportunity for Medicaid leaders to get together and share best practice, as well as our fall meeting, which will be held in a great new venue, the Gaylord Hotel, giving us more room and space and opportunity to connect. Wishing you everything wonderful in 2025 and we will continue to link arms in this important work of Medicaid.