Effective and efficient management of the Medicaid program is essential. Managing the Medicaid program well ensures that beneficiaries get the health and long-term care services they need, providers offer high quality care in a system that operates efficiently, and public resources are spent effectively. This paper proposes four discrete strategies to improve and streamline management of different elements of the Medicaid program to help achieve key program goals.

This issue brief was released as part of CCF’s Strengthening Medicaid project, which develops fresh ideas to strengthen the Medicaid program and to engage policymakers and stakeholders at the state and federal levels in discussion about how these ideas might be translated into policies.