Doulas community meeting October 9

Washington State Health Care Authority sent this bulletin at 09/27/2024 08:00 AM PDT

September 27, 2024

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Benefit design: Doulas community meeting

Wednesday, October 9

The Health Care Authority (HCA) will host a doulas community meeting via Teams on Wednesday, October 9 from 4 – 5 p.m.

This meeting will be an opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed Apple Health (Medicaid) birth doula benefit design elements, including:

Structure of visits available to each client during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and after pregnancy
Components of the proposed prenatal intake visit and the comprehensive postpartum visit
Proposed reimbursement model

This meeting does not replace any part of the formal rulemaking process for the birth doula benefit. If you would like to sign up as an interested party for doula rulemaking, contact Jason Crabbe.

If you are unable to attend on October 9 or otherwise prefer to send written feedback to the HCA on the doula benefit design, you may do so until October 11 by emailing HCADoulas@hca.wa.gov.

Documents

Review the documents ahead of the meeting:

Doulas meeting slides October 9, 2024 (draft)

Meeting details

Date: Wednesday, October 9
Time: 4 - 5 p.m.

Join Teams meeting (no registration required)

Live event captioning available

Communication Access Real-time Transcription (CART) services, or live closed captioning, are available for events, on demand. Scheduling CART services requires a three-week lead-time.

To request this accommodation, please submit a request as soon as possible to: Matt Turner.

If you make your request less than a week in advance of the event, our language access manager cannot guarantee that a CART writer will be available.

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About the Health Care Authority (HCA)

Functioning as both the state's largest health care purchaser and its behavioral health authority, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is a leader in ensuring Washington residents have the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

There are three pillars of our work: Apple Health (Medicaid); the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) and School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) programs; and behavioral health and recovery. Under these pillars, HCA purchases health care, including behavioral health treatment for more than 2.7 million Washington residents and provides behavioral health prevention, crisis, and recovery supports to all Washington residents.

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