Everything You Need to Know About the ACE Kids Act

Most of the sickest children in the nation—children with medically complex conditions (CMC)—rely on Medicaid for their care. The Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids (ACE Kids) Act was designed with them in mind. When implemented by states opting in to the program, ACE Kids will:

• Enable better care coordination for children across multiple providers.
• Ease access to necessary care across state lines.
• Keep patients out of the hospital and care close to home whenever possible.
• Support more standardized data collection and quality improvement.
• Decrease Medicaid spending.

What is the ACE Kids Act?

• Quick summary
• Detailed summary by section
• Bill text

Improving CMC care models: Learnings from the CARE Award

• CARE Award overview
• Estimating Costs to Manage Care for Children with Complex Medical Conditions
• Reducing the Health Care Spend for Children with Complex Medical Conditions
• Payment Model Guidance for Caring for Children with Complex Medical Conditions
• CARE Award Milliman White Papers
  • Membership Thresholds
  • Alternate Payment Models
  • Patient Acuity: Analysis of Selection Effects

Implementing ACE Kids

• Realizing the Promise of ACE Kids — ACE Kids implementation white paper 
• ACE Kids Act and ACA provisions comparison chart
• Recommendations to CMS on ACE Kids implementation
  • Letter to HHS secretary on ACE Kids implementation
  • Memo on definition of ACE Kids eligible children
  • Letter from Reps. Castor and Bilirakis to HHS on ACE Kids implementation
  • Children's groups letter to CMS on ACE Kids guidance

ACE Kids federal guidance

• Health Home Information Resource Center and SPA Submission Resources
• State planning grants
• CHA press release on implementation
• Guidance on ACE Kids implementation
  • CHA comments on HHS and CMS ACE Kids guidance and definition
• Guidance on coordinating out-of-state care for children with complex medical conditions
  • CHA summary
• ACE Kids Webinar on Federal Guidance slides