MHPA works on behalf of its 130+ member health plans, known as managed care organizations (MCOs), that serve more than 40 million Medicaid enrollees in 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. MHPA’s members include both for-profit and non-profit, national and regional, as well as single-state health plans that compete in the Medicaid market.

MHPA is dedicated to protecting the financial and structural viability of the Medicaid program to ensure access to needed health care services for America’s underserved and vulnerable populations. To that end, MHPA advocates for maintaining and expanding managed care’s benefits to all eligible individuals and populations, and as such, MHPA’s member health plans have adopted the following top priorities:

• Showcasing the quality and cost-effectiveness of Medicaid managed care;
• Furthering the integration of physical and behavioral health services;
• Supporting managed long-term services and supports programs and improving the integration of Medicare and Medicaid services for dually-eligible enrollees;
• Maintaining the principle of actuarial soundness in rate development while also supporting more flexibility for states to offer managed care services; and
• Emphasizing the importance of the social determinants of health.