NMEH Information

The MITA Matters blog inbox has received several inquiries regarding the NMEH; mainly, what is the NMEH and how do I get involved? NMEH (pronounced Neh-mee) is an abbreviation for the National Medicaid Electronic Data Interchange Healthcare Workgroup. NMEH members are primarily State staff. In some cases, NMEH members can be vendors directly representing State staff. This group exists to “provide a united Medicaid voice when working with the health insurance industry". Lately, the NMEH has been a critical member of the MITA team by reviewing business processes, participating in the MITA track at the MMIS conference, and providing other vital support to the MITA initiative.

If you are working in a State on MITA and are wondering how to actively participate in the further development of the initiative, joining the NMEH MITA workgroup is a good idea. To be placed on the NMEH listserv (to receive periodic emails about NMEH activities and info), simply send an email to this address: NMEH@edifecs.com. You will receive a reply to your email with instructions on how proceed from there. If you have questions about NMEH’s role in MITA and would like to find out more, you may contact Andrea Danes, one of the NMEH MITA sub workgroup co-chairs, at Andrea.Danes@FOXsys.com .

Editor’s note: The book, “The Mouse and the Motorcycle” has no direct link or affiliation to the NMEH whatsoever. Well, okay, it does in my small and twisted brain. You see, when I was but a wee lad, I had a favorite aunt named Emily. All of the cousins called her “Em” for short but I, being one of the youngest of the cousin rat pack, could not master the simple “Em” and instead called her “Nem” and by extension, occasionally “Nemmy”. One of my aunt’s favorite things to do whenever I would visit her was to read me the Beverly Cleary book “The Mouse and the Motorcycle”. So it is one of those weird and unexplainable things in life that whenever I hear or say the word acronym “NMEH”, I immediately think about a little mouse named Ralph and his shiny motorcycle. (Yes, I have tried therapy and no, it did not work…)