Medicaid 101: Federal Oversight, State Administration, Provider Level Matters & Important Updates
Accredited for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
12 – 1 p.m. ET
Members: FREE
Nonmembers: $75
Registration required.
Program description:
This program offers a comprehensive exploration of the Medicaid program, focusing on its historical development, structural design, and current dynamics.
Objectives:
At the end of this live webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Review the history of the Medicaid program from the perspective of:
- Federal oversight and partnership
- State administration, including structuring and financing of state Medicaid programs
- Recognize provider-level matters including enrollment, patient engagement, and reimbursement.
- Discuss changes at the federal and state level and how they may affect Medicaid participants and providers.
Speaker:
Grant Achenbach
Senior Associate, Krieg DeVault
About the speaker:
Grant Achenbach is an attorney and lobbyist for Krieg DeVault. Grant has extensive experience in the healthcare lobbying space—he joined Krieg DeVault from the ISMA, where he served as the Director of Government Relations. In this role, he represented the interests of physicians and physician groups and was responsible for developing and implementing the ISMA’s yearly legislative agenda. He also advocated for ISMA’s physician members before the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, the Indiana Department of Insurance, the Family and Social Services Administration, the Indiana Department of Health, and other state agencies.
Grant also practices law with the firm’s Health Care Practice, which focuses primarily on regulatory matters relating to hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgical centers, and long-term care facilities. His connections with state agencies, officials, and payers rooted in his governmental affairs experience provide unique value propositions to clients as they seek to navigate Indiana’s legal and regulatory environment.
Speaker:
Meghan Linvill McNab
Partner, Krieg DeVault
About the speaker:
Meghan Linvill McNab represents a variety of health care providers in areas including Medicare and Medicaid program reimbursement, Medicaid reform initiatives, regulatory compliance, licensure and survey actions, and various other regulatory issues. McNab also has significant experience counseling hospitals and nursing facilities on Intergovernmental Transfers and Upper Payment Limit programs for Medicaid reimbursement, as well as experience in structuring transactions for compliance with these programs.
Prior to counseling the firm's Health Care clients, McNab was a senior healthcare consultant working in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and cost reporting. In addition to being an attorney, McNab is also a Certified Public Accountant.
CME INFORMATION
Designation Statement: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) designates this live webinar for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Disclosure Policy: In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, educational programs sponsored by the ISMA must demonstrate balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor. Prior to the activity, all faculty, authors, editors and planning committee members participating in an ISMA-sponsored activity are required to disclose to attendees any relevant financial relationships with an “ineligible company” whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Disclosure Statement: No member of the CME Planning Committee or our speaker have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
If you have questions, contact ISMA Continuing Medical Education staff at 800-257-4762 or seminars@ismanet.org.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 7, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. ET