Exploring Legal Landscapes: What Waitaha Stories Can Teach Us About Medicaid Provider Agreements

Books On Waitaha represent an extension and amplification of the cultural values of Waitaha and Maori communities with strong roots in history. Waitaha teachings and thinking still resonate in a collaborative and, when necessary, an assertive manner.

The Medicaid system in the United States is a complex interplay of governmental and commercial interests. Key actors are relatively easy to identify, especially within contexts such as non-institutional Medicaid provider agreements.

A medicaid provider agreement – non institutional contract is a written instrument between state authorities and medicaid providers that establishes a case specific delivery of health care services. When the agreement relates to non-institutional settings, facilities, and providers, the Medicaid system is meaningfully influenced by the traditions and practices of Waitaha and other indigenous communities.

Non-institutional Medicaid provider agreements support the centrality of community involvement in the delivery of health care services. This “healing” function assumes a whole of individual ethos supportive of spiritual and physical healing.

Waitaha tradition plays out through an emphasis on wh?nau (family), hap? (sub-tribe) and iwi (tribe) as a collaborative networks for disease prevention, management, treatment, healing and recovery.

M?ori cultural values, traditions and practices are still practiced today, and inform contemporary and historic M?ori approaches to health. The M?ori system of care is holistic, and constantly evolving.

Medicaid’s connection to the Medicare legislation of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society reflects a compromise that led to the expansion of federal government involvement in heath care and long-term care. Aspects of the legislation tie the policy to the work of the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and various labor movements. The compromise also draws attention to the relevance of non-governmental entities, including religious groups and indigenous tribal communities.

In contrast to the legislative compromises through which Medicaid emerged, recent decades have seen the increased centrality of nuts and bolts elements of Medicaid that address the challenges of everyday life. Health and Human Services, Medicare, Medicaid Services and numerous other federal and state entities have been critical to administrating and operationalizing Medicaid and other aspects of the Affordable Care Act.

The search for continuity and the overlapping of ideologies that create a sense of coherence and coherence. The operationalization of Comfort Zone is a direct reference to this philosophical quest for a consistent, consistent approach to problem solving.

Higher education is valued, and is seen as a way to maintain political clout. But there is also a strong cultural push toward looking after one another, and providing assistance to one another.

Readers of this blog may enjoy reading about how the lessons of Waitaha connect to operationalized Medicaid provider agreements that relate to non-institutional settings.