Wednesday, July 24
3:00 – 4:00 PM ET
Zoom
The third of six virtual cafés will be led by discussants Lisa Kirsch, MPAff, of Dell Medical School and Meg Comeau, CISWH senior project director. In this hour-long cafe, they will briefly share framing around the current policy landscape for children with medical complexity. Through facilitated discussion in breakouts, participants will explore and learn together where policy opportunities lie for both small and big changes at the local, state, and national levels. We will reconvene the group briefly to share high-level takeaways from breakouts. Ideas will then be synthesized thematically supported by generative AI and distributed widely. This series is funded by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.
View the Recording
View the presentation slides here.
Synthesis Materials:
Discussion Materials
- Financing Policy Considerations From Texas to Optimize Care for Children With Medical Complexity
- Everything You Need to Know About the ACE Kids Act
- Enact the Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act
- Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act
Discussants:
Lisa Kirsch, MPAff
Senior Policy Director, Dean’s Office, Dell Medical School
Lisa Kirsch is the senior policy director at Dell Medical School. She conducts health policy research and analysis to support innovations in health care delivery and payment. She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Prior to joining Dell Med, Kirsch worked for more than 13 years at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program policy issues. She served as the chief deputy Medicaid/CHIP director, where she oversaw the policy department and the development and implementation of the more than $10 billion Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program under Texas’ 1115 health care transformation waiver.
Margaret (Meg) Comeau, MHA
Senior Project Director and PI, Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health, Boston University
Meg Comeau, MHA is a senior project director at the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH). She is a nationally recognized expert on the impact of Medicaid and federal health care reform for children with special health care needs, medically complex conditions, and disabilities. She brings more than 15 years of health care delivery and financing experience to her role as principal investigator for the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Advance Care for Children with Medical Complexity (CMC) and as principal investigator of the Catalyst Center, a project focused on improving insurance coverage and financing of care for children and youth with special health care needs