Deploying Community Health Workers for Critical COVID-19 Contact Tracing

and pay for the thousands of CHWs needed to conduct the critical education and contact tracing Section 5313 of the Affordable Care Act identifies needed to contain the coronavirus. [...] These • The Illinois Department of Healthcare and relationships enable the workers to serve as liaisons Family Services (HFS) amend contracts with between community members and local health and managed care entities (MCE) to allow MCEs social service providers, with the goal of facilitating to hire CHWs or subcontract with access to services and improving the quality and community-based organizati. [...] A grants for third parties to Health of Alaska State Plan Amendment effective July 1, 2017, train community health Department of allows all levels of certified Community aides as Community Health Health and Social Health Aides/Practitioners (CHA/Ps) to be Practitioners with an exam Services reimbursed for services to Medicaid at the end of training. [...] 49 allows Department of agency to provide services to Minnesota CHWs to participate in the Health and Health Care Programs enrollees are required Medicaid program and Department of to cover diagnosis-related patient education receive payment for certain Human Services on self-management services provided by services. [...] Innovative Community Health Worker Strategies • Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative • CHW COVID-19 Workflow Resources and Open Questions • A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US • Affordable Care Act Opportunities for Community Health Workers • National Academy for State Health Policy’s Innovative Community Health Worker Strategies • C.