Overview
Medicaid and other state health and human service programs provide essential services for millions of people, offering a lifeline for individuals and families and powerful tools for states to improve population health and strengthen health care delivery systems. States are facing enormous challenges because of seismic changes in these programs, including ensuring compliance with shifting law and policy, responding to funding threats and integrating the opportunities of emerging technologies and innovation to maximize the value of their investments.
Manatt Health supports clients through every stage of transformative change—from co-creating solutions to developing actionable implementation plans and delivering results. We help states develop forward-thinking strategies that balance legal requirements, operational realities, population health imperatives and community needs.
With a mission to co-create a more accessible, more equitable and high-quality system of health and experience working across the United States, our team helps states address issues impacting Medicaid, Marketplace, public health, child welfare and disability programs, including:
- Artificial intelligence
- Behavioral health
- Digital health
- Coverage and affordability
- Eligibility and enrollment
- Federal authorities
- Financing and payment
- Health information exchange
- Home and Community Based Services
- Information technology requirements
- Innovation
- Managed care
- Population health
- Program assessment
State health leaders face difficult choices and complex problems. Manatt Health brings together high-caliber health care lawyers and consultants to offer an exceptional standard of service and help states find practical paths forward.
Our dedicated team has deep experience in state-specific challenges, policies and regulatory environments, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that address the evolving needs and priorities of state governments while facilitating innovation that leads to measurable program improvement.
Our clients rely on us to advance value-based, person-centered care models that improve health while controlling costs. With our strong reputation in technology and tech transformation, we also help build sustainable infrastructures—such as health IT systems, data analytics capabilities and workforce strategies—that enable long-term transformation.
We support states in managing complex change, assessing organizational readiness, redesigning program policy and operational workflows and ensuring sustainable improvements. Our focus is on translating policy into practical, sustainable programs that produce positive outcomes.
Working alongside state agency leaders, delivery system stakeholders and people enrolling in state programs, we help implement new delivery models and workflows and deliver practical support to state agencies, including toolkits, learning collaboratives and direct coaching, to help states and providers achieve transformation goals.
Manatt Health is more than just an advisor—we are catalysts who help states get things done. Our deep relationships across diverse states, federal and state agencies and regulatory bodies, branches of government and industry decisionmakers enable us to build bridges and craft solutions that are both innovative and practical.
We can help you navigate the complexities of federal and state programs, negotiate among stakeholders and turn policy visions into reality.
