Medicaid Financing for Community Health Workers
Many states have begun to integrate CHWs into their Medicaid programs, using existing policy tools to fund CHW services. It is critical that states do this in a way that does not co-opt, but rather supports the existing CHW workforce and builds on the work CHWs have been doing for decades. As states consider policy changes to integrate CHWs into Medicaid, this paper outlines five key principles that every state can follow to support CHWs .