Employers

This page covers training, Medicaid Reimbursement, CHW reimbursement for specialization, community education, and includes a list of employers in Nevada with CHW trained staff.

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Please make checks out to the Healthy Communities Coalition, memo “CHW Training Fund” PO Box 517, Dayton, Nevada 89403

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CHW Medicaid Information:

These changes are effective March 1, 2024. (BILLABLE SERVICES LANGUAGE 603, 605, 605.1)

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Please verify all information with your team, Medicaid contracts, and contacts. Public Notices dhfp.nv.gov

Federal recognition July 7, 2022 when the State Plan Amendment received CMS approval learn more

  • Providers will be asked to submit:
    • Collaboration Agreement with Medicaid
    • Supervisor Qualifications
    • One supervisor may have a max of 20 CHWs
    • State CHW Certificates
    • MCO contracts as defined

Planning Resources:

Classes are offered 4 times per year or by group class. For group classes up to 30, we can put an instruction team together for $4,500 or $300 per student. Additional costs apply to mentorship and field placement support. Donations, course bookings, and grants to the CHW Training Fund:

  • Ensure that all communities have access to this training
  • Overcome training barriers
  • Hire public health leaders to instruct classes
  • Provide mentorship over the 8-week course
  • Keep this training affordable to incoming CHWs
  • Limit or eliminate class wait times

CHW Staff Funding Sources

Please reach out to us explore any of these options:

  • Medicaid Fee-for-Service
  • Medicaid FQHCs
  • Managed Care Organization (MCO) Partnerships
  • Law enforcement or detention
  • Health Grants
  • Respite for families with Children
  • Faith-based settings
  • Behavioral health expansion
  • Community wellness through diabetes, heart, and stroke education

These Companies Employ CHW-trained Staff in Nevada

  • ACCEPT
  • Access to Healthcare Network
  • Adult Sickle Cell Disease Foundation
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
  • Albritton Behavioral Health
  • Alteon Health
  • AmeriCorps
  • Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Anthem Medicaid
  • Axis Point Health
  • Building Selflove Foundation LLC
  • Carson City Health and Human Services
  • Catholic Charities
  • Catholic Charities, Crossroads
  • Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT), University of Nevada, Reno
  • Churchill Community Coalition
  • Churchill County
  • Churchill County Social Services
  • Clark County School District
  • Coalition for Senior Citizens William N Pennington Life Center
  • Community Chest, Inc.
  • Community Health Alliance
  • Community Outreach Medical Center
  • Crossroads
  • Crossroads/CCNN
  • Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican
  • Douglas County Social Services
  • Dreamsickle Kids Foundation
  • Elko County School District
  • Equipo Academy
  • Faith Medical Clinic
  • First Person Care Clinic
  • Food Bank of Northern Nevada
  • Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow
  • GR
  • Health Plan of Nevada
  • Healthcare Plus LLC
  • Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties
  • Healthy Communities Silver Springs NV Food Pantry
  • Heart2Heart
  • Hearts at home
  • HEROS
  • High Sierra AHEC
  • Hope Christian Health Center
  • HOPES
  • Immunize Nevada
  • Innovative Healthcare Delivery
  • Invo- progressus
  • Lander County Community Health
  • Language Bank – NNIC
  • Las Vegas Valley Water District
  • LCHS
  • LSSN
  • Lutheran Social Services of Nevada
  • Lyon County Human Service
  • Lyon County School District
  • MedicWest Ambulance
  • Mente Sana
  • Mineral County Senior Services
  • Minority Health Consultants
  • Mission High School
  • NAMI Western Nevada
  • NaviHealth
  • Nevada Health Centers
  • Nevada Outreach
  • Nevada Outreach Training Organization
  • New Frontier Treatment Center
  • NNCIL
  • Northern Nevada Food Bank
  • Northern Nevada HOPES
  • Noutam
  • NvCHWA
  • Nye Communities Coalition
  • Nye County Health & Human Services
  • Optum Care
  • Other New Frontier Treatment Center
  • Pact Coalition
  • Partnership Carson City
  • Partnership Douglas County
  • Prominence
  • Prominence Health Plan
  • Rainbow Helpers Personal Care
  • Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
  • Reno Initiative for Shelter and Equality / Our Place
  • Reno Sparks Tribal Health Center
  • Renovation Mental Health
  • Renown
  • Renown Child Health Institute
  • Renown Community Outreach Department
  • Renown Health
  • Renown: Community Care Management
  • Rural Nevada Counseling
  • Sanford Center for Aging
  • SHIP
  • Shoshone Paiute Tribes
  • Sickled Not Broken Foundation of NV
  • Sierra Nevada Health Centers
  • Snap-ed
  • Solutions of Change
  • Southern Nevada CHIPs
  • Southern Nevada Health District
  • Sparrow Solutions Group
  • St Rose Dignity health
  • State of Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health
  • Sunrise Children’s Foundation
  • The J Walker Group, LLC
  • The Life Change Center
  • TMCC
  • UHC – HPN
  • United Citizen Foundation
  • United Health Care – Health Plan of Nevada
  • United Health Group
  • United Healthcare
  • UNITED LATINO COMMUNITY
  • University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
  • University of Nevada, Reno
  • UNLV
  • Veterans Health Administration
  • Vitality Integrated Programs
  • Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada
  • Volunteers of Medicine
  • Washoe County School District
  • Women and Children’s Center of the Sierra
  • Well Rounded Momma
  • Yerington Food Pantry