The 2017 MIPPA contract builds on the previous contract and strengthens the provisions for service coordination and data communication. In order to minimize the administrative burden of D-SNPs, DHS has focused its reporting obligations on data that CMS already requires of D-SNPs. Since 2009, MIPPA Fellows have submitted more than 1.8 million applications for LIS and MSP BOURSES for a total value of more than $5 billion. The Centers for Medicare – Medicaid Services (CMS) needs eight essential elements in a MIPPA contract and allows states to add additional requirements. In the development of this MIPPA treaty, DHS conducted extensive research on MIPPA contracts in other countries and studied best practices across the country. The National Council on Aging, Center for Benefits Access is currently an NCBOE Fellow and provides technical assistance to MIPPA Fellows. The Centre supports fellows through training, resources and promotion. The Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) helps states and tribes provide contact and assistance services to legitimate Medicare beneficiaries to claim benefit programs that help reduce the cost of their Medicare premiums and deductibles. MIPPA scholarships provide targeted funding to National Health Insurance Programs (WARS), Local Agencies for Aging (AAA) and Resource Centres for the Elderly and Disabled (ADRC). Scholars will help recipients inform recipients of the Low Income Subsidy (LIS) program for Medicare Part D, Medicare Savings Programs (MSP) and Medicare Preventive Services. This initiative includes specific efforts to target rural and older areas of Native Americans. The NCOA`s public policy and approval team expects the May 2020 congress to re-approve MIPPA for another two years.
Learn more about how to inform policy makers about the impact of MIPPA in your community. To improve the integration of Medicare and Medicaid benefits for dual entitlements, the 2008 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) provides for a dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) to obtain contracts with the state-owned Medicaid Agency. The MIPPA contract allows DHS to improve the coordination between Medicare and Medicaid to achieve better health outcomes and to provide a more transparent experience for all duals who enroll in D-SNP, including those who opt for an accompanying D-SNP in the Community HealthChoices (CHC) program. LIS is managed by the Social Security Administration. This program helps reduce the cost of Medicare Part D medical prescription drugs, including premiums, deductibles and drug costs in the plan form for people who meet the program`s income and resource requirements. Very few states currently use this approach (or a version of it – look at the graph below), but it could lead to considerable direction and integration for the nearly 3 million duals that are now registered in D-SNP.
