News and resources tailored to our senior services community, including relevant reports, educational opportunities, policy updates and more.
Connect over Breakfast at LeadingAge Leadership Summit
Heading to Washington, D.C. for the LeadingAge Leadership Summit? Join us for our breakfast on April 20 to connect with fellow Lutheran Services in America senior services leaders at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
The breakfast is a great way to connect—and reconnect—with other leaders from across the Lutheran Services in America network. Please share this invitation with everyone from your team to your board. The more the merrier! To ensure we have enough seating, please contact Ashley Washington.
Leading with Intelligence: A Roadmap to AI Readiness & Co-design
For Lutheran Services in America leaders, artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration. It is a present-day necessity for operational resilience. Yet for many organizations, the path to implementation is complicated by ethical questions, workforce skepticism, and uncertainty about where to begin.
Join generative AI firm AIEYU and Lutheran Services in America on Wednesday, March 18, at 1 p.m. ET for an deep dive into AI readiness and co-design. Led by professionals with lived experience in the systems they serve, this session moves beyond technology buzzwords to focus on practical, human-centered change management. Participants will explore how “field-informed intelligence” can help address staff shortages, protect frontline boundaries through immersive training, and establish governance structures that keep people, dignity, and trust at the center of care. REGISTER HERE.
ADVOCACY UPDATE
Medicaid: Federal Crackdowns and State Implementation
Federal Crackdown on “Fraud” Continues through 3-Phase Effort
Republican leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent letters March 3 to ten states — California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Washington — requesting information on waste, fraud, and abuse, as well as integrity efforts, in their Medicaid programs. This is in addition to recent and upcoming hearings on fraud, and other targeted efforts by the administration aimed at rooting out alleged fraud in California, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York. We are continually monitoring these efforts and engaging with our contacts on the Hill.
What can you do?
The federal fraud actions noted above come as states continue preparations to implement the Medicaid provisions of H.R. 1. As state agencies are still awaiting more detailed federal guidance, they are also moving ahead with early planning, revising procedures and updating systems based on the law’s broad requirements. Accordingly, advocates, providers, and community partners are encouraged to proactively engage with their state Medicaid agencies.
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