Now CEO and President for JSN Strategies, Jami Snyder served as director of Arizona's Medicaid agency, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), from 2019 through December 2022. MACPAC reviews Medicaid and CHIP access and payment policies and advises Congress on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP.
Before joining...Arizona Comings & Goings
Jami Snyder, former Director of AHCCCS, is now president and CEO of her own organization, JSN Strategies, LLC.
Please join us in wishing Jami great success in her newest endeavor!...News
Snyder oversees Arizona’s Medicaid and CHIP program, including its $18 billion annual budget to provide acute, behavioral health, and long-term care services and supports to more than 2.3 million Arizona residents. She began her work at AHCCCS in 2017 as the agency's deputy director and was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in 2019...Arizona News
President Joe Biden could prevent 30% of Medicaid beneficiaries from losing insurance once the public health emergency ends by reworking regulations and rewriting a Trump administration guidance on how to restart the redetermination process, according to Inside Health Policy.
Biden is set to reopen the nation’s online health...News
This is a grim holiday season in Arizona with COVID-19 cases spiking 52% in the two weeks following Thanksgiving. Healthcare workers are managing increasing hospitalizations and deaths; capacity is tightening with 92% of inpatient and 93% of ICU beds in use - the state's largest healthcare system expanded its morgue capacity with...Arizona Comings & Goings
During the quarterly State Medicaid Advisory Committee (SMAC) meeting Wednesday, April 8, members met virtually to discuss the The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System's (AHCCCS) COVID-19 response including CMS approved flexibilities to help providers and ensure members access to care.
The meeting began with a recap of the...
In December, a 29-year-old woman in a vegetative state for over a decade gave birth to a baby boy and initiated a rape investigation that bled into the new year. Last week, Gov. Doug Ducey called for a "complete replacement" of the board at Hacienda Healthcare. Now that the alleged perpetrator, Nathan Sutherland, has been arrested,...Arizona Comings & Goings
Arizona's Medicaid agency will be led by Snyder beginning Jan. 4. She succeeds the retiring Tom Betlach, the longest serving AHCCCS director in the state's history.
Serving as deputy director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) since December of 2017, Snyder isn't new public service, nor to Arizona. She...Arizona News
The change was announced during the State Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday.
The announcement comes after CMS rejected Kansas' request for a 3-year lifetime limit on Medicaid benefits.
Arizona's Medicaid program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, is obligated by a 2015 statute to annually...
Join us in Scottsdale with our community partner Arizona HFMA for the half-day conference Friday, April 27 from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Deputy Director Jami Snyder presents major AHCCCS program changes including new complete care awards and the latest on the agency's proposed CYE 2019 Differential Payment Adjustments, effective...
This afternoon at the State Medicaid Advisory Committee’s (SMAC) quarterly meeting, AHCCCS Director Tom Betlach briefly announced the resignation of Beth Kohler, Deputy Director of Arizona's Medicaid program.
“I think you all know that unfortunately Beth is leaving us,” said Betlach, speaking solemnly of her departure....
