# The Menges Group

> The Menges Group offers Medicaid managed care consulting in strategy, data analytics, policy, and operations to improve care for high\-need beneficiaries\.

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## Pages
- [Contact](https://themengesgroup.com/contact/)
- [Operational Support for Managed Care Optimization](https://themengesgroup.com/what-we-do/operational-support-for-managed-care-optimization/)
- [Public Policy Analyses](https://themengesgroup.com/what-we-do/public-policy-analyses/)
- [Data Analytics and Products](https://themengesgroup.com/what-we-do/data-analytics-and-products/)
- [Business Development Strategy \<br\> and Proposal Support](https://themengesgroup.com/what-we-do/business-development-strategy-and-proposal-support/)

## Posts
- [Assessment of Washington State’s Medicaid Prescription Drug Management Performance and Policy Options](https://themengesgroup.com/2026/02/24/assessment-of-washington-states-medicaid-prescription-drug-management-performance-and-policy-options-2/): This report updates our 2024 assessment of which prescription drug model is best suited for Washington’s Apple Health \(Medicaid\) program\. Simulating the carve\-out on the most recent year where data are available \(FFY2024\), we estimate that changing to the carve\-out approach would create additional total annual costs of $94\.1 million for Washington’s Medicaid program, divided $59\.0 million in additional state outlays and $35\.1 million in additional federal outlays\.  

Our key recommendation is to preserve the existing carve\-in structure – both for fiscal optimization and due to the wide array of programmatic advantages that occur under an integrated model of care and care coordination\.
- [Assessment of HealthChoices, Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Managed Care Program](https://themengesgroup.com/2025/10/20/assessment-of-healthchoices-pennsylvanias-medicaid-managed-care-program-new/): In this report and its accompanying summary documents, we evaluate the Physical HealthChoices program's performance across areas such as quality outcomes, cost management, collaboration between Pennsylvania's Medicaid agency and the MCOs, community investments, provider partnerships, and initiatives addressing social determinants…

## Staff
- [Emalee Barto](https://themengesgroup.com/staff/emalee-barto/)
- [Katherine Ginsburg](https://themengesgroup.com/staff/katherine-ginsburg/)
- [Anya Mody](https://themengesgroup.com/staff/anya-mody/)
- [Poornima Singh](https://themengesgroup.com/staff/poornima-singh/)
- [Manisha Gupta](https://themengesgroup.com/staff/manisha-gupta/)

## 5\-Slide Series
- [Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements: Implications \& Potential Activities for MCOs \(Edition 2\)](https://themengesgroup.com/5-slide-series/medicaid-community-engagement-requirements-implications-potential-activities-for-mcos-edition-2/): This edition examines what the H\.R\. 1 Medicaid community engagement requirements, also known as work requirements, mean for MCOs, covering the role CMS permits MCOs to play, implications for membership and financial performance, and potential activities to prepare before the January 1, 2027, effective date\. This is the latest addition to our continuing work analyzing the impact of H\.R\. 1\.
- [Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements: Overview of Federal Legislation \& State Activities \(Edition 1\)](https://themengesgroup.com/5-slide-series/medicaid-community-engagement-requirements-overview-of-federal-legislation-state-activities-edition-1/): This edition provides a legislative and regulatory overview of the Medicaid community engagement requirements, also known as work requirements, established by H\.R\. 1 and slated to take effect January 1, 2027\. This edition continues our work analyzing H\.R\. 1's impact\. 
- [Year One of the Rural Health Transformation Program Awards: Key Insights from Awards and Early Implementation \(Edition 1\)](https://themengesgroup.com/5-slide-series/year-one-of-the-rural-health-transformation-program-awards-key-insights-from-awards-and-early-implementation/): This edition focuses on the Rural Health Transformation Program, the $50 billion fund established by H\.R\. 1 and distributed across all 50 states from FY26 through FY30\.
- [Rural Health Federal Funding: Impacts by Year; Medicaid’s Key Role in Rural Health \(Edition 2\)](https://themengesgroup.com/5-slide-series/rural-health-federal-funding-impacts-by-year-medicaids-key-role-in-rural-health/): This edition examines the Rural Health Transformation Program \(RHTP\) in the context of Medicaid and rural health, comparing the timeline of federal Medicaid reductions with RHTP investments and assessing how state\-proposed initiatives align with key rural health indicators\.
- [Recent Trends in Gun Deaths](https://themengesgroup.com/5-slide-series/recent-trends-in-gun-deaths/): As the final update of our 2024 mini\-series, this edition analyzes trends in suicides, homicides, and the role of firearms\.

## Affiliated Consultants
- [Allison Haley](https://themengesgroup.com/affiliated-consultants/allison-haley/)
- [Jennifer Leonard, JD MPH](https://themengesgroup.com/affiliated-consultants/jennifer-leonard-jd-mph/)
- [Eric Yoder, M\.D\.](https://themengesgroup.com/affiliated-consultants/eric-yoder-m-d/)
- [Sherry Knowlton](https://themengesgroup.com/affiliated-consultants/sherry-knowlton/)
- [Bruce Carpenter](https://themengesgroup.com/affiliated-consultants/bruce-carpenter/)

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