Colorado Summit on Pediatric Home Asthma Interventions
Colorado Summit on Pediatric Home Asthma Interventions
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Denver, Colorado
This event was the fourth in a series of local meetings supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Colorado Summit was coordinated locally by the Colorado Healthy Housing Coalition, a group of federal, state, and local agencies working to further healthy housing in Colorado with a particular focus on reducing health disparities. The meetings are designed to promote the value of home-based assessments and interventions for children with poorly controlled asthma and to accelerate the creation of reimbursement mechanisms for these services by local/regional health insurance providers.
Children’s Hospital Colorado hosted the event featuring national policy strategists, administrators from the State of Colorado, and leaders of community-based asthma programs already receiving some level of reimbursement. Presenters and participants discussed methods, challenges and solutions surrounding efforts to build capacity for in-home interventions and make reimbursement a reality for Colorado.
Opening remarks were provided by Dr. Stanley J. Szefler, MD, Director of Pediatric Asthma Research, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Mr. Martin Nee, Division Director, Regional Management and Technical Support Division, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
One outcome of the August 2014 Colorado Summit on Pediatric Home Asthma Interventions was the idea to promote awareness of existing codes that are being used to bill Medicaid for delivery of asthma-related services. Review the Medicaid Reimbursement Billing Codes for Asthma Care Services by State to see what is covered across different states, and then use this information to engage stakeholders in your state to advocate for expanded Medicaid and private payer insurance.
Presentations
- Welcome Remarks: Stanley J. Szefler, M.D., Director of Pediatric Asthma Research, Children's Hospital Colorado
- Orientation and Opening Remarks: Martin Nee, Division Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Opportunities for Prevention and Access to Healthcare Under the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid: RADM Zachary Taylor, M.D., M.S., Regional Health Administrator, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Region VIII, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Accelerating Medicaid Innovation: Mark A. Levine, M.D., FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Denver Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- The Reimbursement Landscape: Amanda Reddy, MS, Senior Analyst, National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, MD
- Key Federal Policies and Strategies: Paul Garbe, D.V.M., M.P.H., Chief, Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Peter Ashley, DrPH, Director, Policy and Standards Division, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Colorado Landscape: Larry Wolk, M.D., M.S.P.H., Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Alison Grace Bui, M.P.H., Public Health Data Coordinator Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- The Business Case for Asthma Interventions: A Review of the Economic Evidence for Home-based Asthma Services: Amanda Reddy, M.S., Senior Analyst, National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, MD
- Business Case for Home Asthma Interventions: Karen Meyerson, M.S.N., R.N., Manager, Asthma Network of West Michigan
- Attacking Chronic Disease via Community Partnerships: Mary Cooley, M.S., R.N., B.S.N., CCM, Director, Care Management, Priority Health
- Business Case for Home Asthma Interventions: Kim Harris Tierney, M.P.H., Program Supervisor, Healthy Homes and Families Program, Multnomah County Health Department, Oregon
- Children's Environmental Health: Denver Health Asthma Management Program: Mark Anderson, M.D., FAAP, Director, Rocky Mountain Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Denver Health Medical Center
- Northeast Denver Asthma Trigger Study: Mike VanDyke, Ph.D., CIH, Section Chief, Environmental Epidemiology and Occupational Health, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Multnomah County Healthy Homes and Housing Programs: Kim Harris Tierney, M.P.H., Program Supervisor, Healthy Homes and Families Program, Multnomah County Health Department, Oregon
- Healthy Homes South Los Angeles: Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, M.P.H., Executive Director, Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, South Los Angeles