The Kentucky HEALTH Medicaid Transformation Leadership Team today announced the scheduling of public stakeholder advisory forums.
The purpose of these stakeholder advisory forums will be to provide an avenue for constructive feedback and solutions to help ensure a successful transition for Medicaid beneficiaries eligible for the new health and well-being program.
“Throughout the past year and half, we have benefitted greatly from meeting with stakeholders offering helpful insight and services,” said Kristi Putnam, program manager of the Kentucky HEALTH Medicaid Transformation Project. “The ongoing engagement and participation of Kentucky HEALTH’s diverse and wide-ranging stakeholders is critical to the success of the program. With the recent federal approval, we are excited to expand this outreach, and look forward to building on existing strong relationships and engaging mutual commitment to improving the health and lives of Kentuckians.”
Putnam noted that these meetings will provide opportunities for the Kentucky HEALTH Project Team to provide updates on implementation activities, offer system demonstrations, engage citizens in system and process testing, discuss draft communications, answer questions about operationalizing specific policies, give notice of upcoming communications from the Commonwealth to beneficiaries, and address topics brought forth by forum participants.
The forums will include representatives from the healthcare and workforce development community, as well as frontline state employees. After the initial meeting on March 8, these public meetings will take place at 1:00 PM local time on the first Thursday of each month, and will alternate between being held in Frankfort and various locations around the state.
A Northern Kentucky meeting has been scheduled at the following date, time and location:
June 7, 2018
1:00 PM EST
Kentucky Career Center
1324 Madison Ave., Covington,
KY 41011
Interested parties can contact KYHealthTeam@KY.gov to RSVP and be included on future communications regarding these meetings.
Each meeting will have a dial in opportunity for interested parties.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is home to most of the state’s human services and healthcare programs, including the Department for Medicaid Services, the Department for Community Based Services the Department for Public Health, the Department for Aging and Independent Living and the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. Additional information is available here.
Cabinet for Health and Family Services
