MTA White Paper: How APIs can help achieve better outcomes in Medicaid

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For questions about the paper or to learn more about the Medicaid Technology Alliance, please contact: Ryan.Howells@LeavittPartners.com or Alissa.McCaffrey@LeavittPartners.com

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Vision, Principles, and Guiding Questions

The Vision of the Medicaid Technology Alliance is to:

• Accelerate the development of new technology solutions that support and are responsive to Medicaid’s ever-changing business needs
• Develop modular definitions and guidelines for Medicaid technology solutions
• Promote smaller, faster, and more uniform procurement practices across states
• Identify guidelines and principles to empower state agencies to successfully implement modular solutions

The Alliance will adhere to the following principles:

• Short-term deliverables, long-term vision
• Define the what, not the how
• Allow like-minded states to more easily work together during procurements
• Ensure policy and IT are connected from the beginning
• Look for solutions in other sectors of the industry (i.e., carriers, commercial, etc.)

The following questions will help guide the work of the Alliance:

• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) help states to achieve short to mid-term program and business goals?
• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) promote competition?
• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) promote interoperability?
• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) improve the customer experience (customer can be providers, beneficiaries, etc.)?
• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) promote re-usability?
• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) promote use of the cloud?
• Does this (activity, guidance, product…) empower state staff to implement and maintain modular solutions?