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Emily Ricci

Emily Ricci

Deputy Commissioner and State Medicaid Director at Alaska Department of Health; oversees Medicaid policy and implementation for Alaska

Jun 16, 2026

18:59
Can you talk a little bit about how you're approaching that just from the standpoint of coordinating all that really extensive portfolio and then how it is to work with, you know, other folks in different state sectors like public health who may be newer to the Medicaid processes for systems?
19:19
Yeah, those are great questions.
19:22
We also began to kind of centralize our APD, like we created an office that manages our APDs on the Medicaid side.
19:29
So I feel like we are much more organized there than we were in the past.
19:32
Sarah, I loved hearing some of your ideas.
19:34
I was like, I want to copy that.
19:35
I want to have an annual meeting where we walk through everything.

8 MINS LATER

27:11
Emily, what would you add about how to keep all of these partners in the process working coherently together?

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