Improving the Medicaid Buy-In for Workers with Disabilities

Medicaid Buy-In for Workers with Disabilities programs allow individuals with disabilities to work, increase their earnings, and retain access to Medicaid’s unique services that support independent living. Our first report, released in January 2021, addressed barriers to these programs for Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities who want to work. Now, BPC builds on that work with new federal policy recommendations that will encourage more states to cover or optimize their coverage of the MBI for Workers with Disabilities eligibility groups.

Please join BPC and a panel of experts and stakeholders to discuss the value of Medicaid Buy-In for Workers with Disabilities programs, implementation challenges, and BPC’s policy recommendations to improve opportunities for workers with disabilities.

Featured Participants

Introduction:

Bill Hoagland | Senior Vice President, BPC

Keynote:

Kathy Hempstead | Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Panelists:

Annette Shea | Consultant, Annette Shea Consulting

Henry Claypool | Policy Director, Community Living Policy Center at Brandeis University

Nancy Scott | Working Healthy Director, Kansas Department of Health and Energy

Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson | Equity and Justice Director, The Arc Minnesota

Moderated by:

Lisa Harootunian |Associate Director, Health, BPC