Joint Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure on Prioritizing Health Care Workforce Investments to Ensure Access to Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries

On November 1, ACAP, as a member of the Partnership for Medicaid coalition, sent a joint letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, emphasizing the need to prioritize investments in the health care workforce to ensure access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries.

The letter expresses appreciation for CMS’s recent efforts to address long-standing challenges by updating federal regulations to oversee Medicaid payment rates and ensure access to care in both Fee-for-Service (FFS) and managed care systems.

It also identifies key priorities to guide CMS’s implementation of the new rules, including:

  • the need for robust data on access to inform policy;
  • the need for meaningful analyses of provider payment rates;
  • concerns about new barriers to states’ ability to increase payment rates; and
  • the need to engage stakeholders in efforts to improve the Medicaid workforce.

Read the full letter via the sidebar on the right.