Catherine Hess, M.S.W.
Title:
Managing Director for Coverage and Access
Organization:
National Academy for State Health Policy
Catherine Hess, M.S.W., is Managing Director for Coverage and Access at the National Academy for State Health Policy. She leads programs and conducts policy analysis on topics that include eligibility and enrollment, children’s coverage, health care safety nets, and health care reform. Ms. Hess has over 30 years of senior and executive level state and national health policy experience, including with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, as the first executive director of the national Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and as an independent consultant to state and federal health agencies and national organizations. She holds adjunct faculty appointments at both Johns Hopkins and George Washington Universities' schools of public health, and has a master of social work from Boston University.
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Facing uncertainty over funding and their patients' future insurance status, safety-net health care providers will need to integrate their operations and form new relationships with external providers and health care systems. The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) proposes to convene state and federal officials and safety-net leaders to discuss the major issues facing these providers and produce policy guidance for integrating them into health reform implementation. Some of the topics to be explored by the national workgroup include: the organizational barriers to provider integration, the need for compatible health information technology, and the roles that safety-net providers can play in the forthcoming Medicaid expansion.