The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) is a nonprofit health policy resource center dedicated to improving the quality and cost effectiveness of health care services for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. We work directly with states and federal agencies, health plans, and providers to develop innovative programs that better serve people with complex and high-cost health care needs.
To accomplish our goals, CHCS' activities focus on three priorities:
Achieving our Mission
CHCS provides training and technical assistance and creates partnerships at the local, state, and national levels. We analyze and establish best practices in chronic care, align financing to reward quality, and strengthen state and health plan capacity to implement quality improvement activities. Our work informs the national health care policy dialogue and helps translate policy into action at the ground level.
The imperative to improve the value of health care services - the Business Case for Quality - underlies all of CHCS' work. By focusing quality improvement efforts on Medicaid's highest-risk, highest-cost populations, states and health plans can improve health outcomes, invest limited public health care dollars more effectively, and ultimately, by controlling costs, free up resources to expand health care coverage for more Americans.