AoA to host webinar on ACA–Community-based Care Transitions, April 20
On Wednesday, April 20, the Administration on Aging (AoA) will continue its training series focused on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (also known as the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) and its impact on the aging network. Please join us for this call which will present a detailed look at the Community-based Care Transition Program. This call will be co-sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.
Title: Partnership for Patients: The Community-based Care Transitions Program
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 3:00-4:30 pm Eastern
Call-in: 1- 888-831-8966
(Space is limited, so please dial in as early as possible – up to 20 minutes before the call begins.)
Participant Passcode: AOA
Description: Preventing avoidable hospital readmissions is a major goal of both the ACA and the Partnership for Patients, a new national public-private partnership recently launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Community-based Care Transition Program (CCTP), funded under Section 3026 of the ACA, offers a unique funding opportunity aimed at improving care transitions for people with Medicare and their families while reducing these costly readmissions. This call will offer an overview of the CCTP solicitation, and the opportunities for the aging network that lie within.
Speakers: James Hester, Senior Advisor, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Joe McCannon, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Juliana Tiongson, Social Science Research Analyst, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Moderator: Marisa Scala-Foley, Office of Policy, Analysis and Development, Administration on Aging
Please note:
Slides will be posted on the AoA web site (http://www.aoa.gov/Aging_Statistics/Health_care_reform.aspx) by 10 am on Wednesday, April 20, so that you may access them in advance and view them during the call. We will also post the recording and transcript of this call on our site soon after it concludes.
While there will be opportunity to ask questions on the call, we invite you to submit your questions in advance to AffordableCareAct@aoa.hhs.gov. We will synthesize these questions and try to answer them during the call as much as possible.