Renewing California's Hospital Financing Waiver

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Description:
This policy brief summarizes the current disucussion on putting together a waiver renewal concept paper for California's hospital financing waiver. The plan is to submit it to the federal government by September or October of 2009. The state is looking to use the waiver renewal to fill in about $400 million of the budget deficit and to use it as a bridge to federal health care reform. The goal of this paper is to solicit creative input from the "front lines" to be included in the renewal waiver. Some of the topics discussed include: Eligibility, Service Delivery, Payment Reform, Budget Neutrality and Financing, Quality Improvement and Infrastructure Reform.