The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification: How I Spent My Summer Vacation Patricia W. Potrzebowski, Ph.D. Director, Bureau of Health Statistics and Research Linda Caniglia Chief, Vital Records Data Systems PA Department of Health

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification: How I Trish Spent My Her Summer Vacation

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification Funding Request Denied Request to Hire Additional Staff Denied Proposal for VR staff to do the work Denied

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Set up Verification Center Provide Job Descriptions Develop Temporary Search Programs Medicaid Citizenship Verification

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification Lessons Learned Other agencies want to do the work IT staff underestimates time to perform the needed work IT says yes to enhancements

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification Phase 1: DPW Contracted Staff Phase 1B: County Assistance Office Staff Phase 2: Front end Automated Match

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification Lessons Learned Be a part of the discussions More people / Stricter Access Important to help, while maintaining your own operations People don’t know their own vital information

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification Lessons Learned Other agencies processes Changing field operations is always slower than you’d expect Everything is slower than you’d expect

The NAPHSIS/NCHS Collaboration Past Successes and Future Challenges Salt Lake City, UT June 3 rd – 7 th, 2007 Medicaid Citizenship Verification Patricia W. Potrzebowski Linda Caniglia