Event Description

On April 1, 2024, from 9:00AM-6:00PM (EDT) the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) hosted A New Way Home: Medicaid and Reentry Symposium. State Medicaid programs have begun exploring new pathways to improve linkage and access to health care for people reentering the community from jails and prisons. The transition from incarceration back to the community is notoriously fraught with competing, complex social and behavioral health needs, as well as staggering rates of overdose and other adverse health events. With innovative state policymaking through the use of 1115 waivers for pre-release Medicaid coverage currently underway, there is a unique opportunity to identify and promote best practices for improving health outcomes and reducing costly reliance on emergency services. The Symposium highlighted opportunities and limitations related to Medicaid 1115 Waivers, encouraged networking amongst stakeholders involved in the policymaking process, and explored barriers and solutions to collaboration.

Programming

• Connecting to Community: Meeting Health-Related Social Needs During Reentry
• Involving the People Most Impacted in Program Design
• Cross Sector Collaboration: Breaking Silos and Building Bridges
• Disrupting Roads to Incarceration Through Reinvestment in Health

Additional details on speakers are forthcoming. For more information click here. 

Sponsored by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. Cosponsored by the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, Harvard Health Law Society, and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.