Improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of publicly financed health care
Primary Care Improvement
Medicaid can play a significant role in strengthening the nation's primary care safety net by supporting innovative medical home and practice improvement initiatives. As an estimated 16 to 20 million individuals become Medicaid-eligible over the next decade, primary care providers will need assistance in delivering sustainable, high-quality care to this compl ex-need population. CHCS is working with states and health plans across the country to test ways to support improvements in care delivery at the primary care site.
Highlights
Advancing Primary Care: Opportunities to Support Care Delivery Redesign in Practices Serving Medicaid and Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients
This brief highlights results from a CHCS survey that looked at 126 practices in four communities participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces initiative. AUGUST 2012Transforming Small High-Volume Medicaid Practices to Reduce Disparities in Care: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities
Download presentations from this joint meeting of CHCS' Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site initiative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality program, where participants reviewed progress, shared experiences, and looked down the road at the future of primary care.
Practice Transformation in Medicaid: Five Levers to Strengthen Small, “High-Volume, High-Opportunity” Practices
This technical assistance brief describes how Medicaid can leverage its resources to facilitate and sustain improvements in care and reduce health disparities in small, under-resourced practices with high-volume Medicaid panels.
Supporting “Meaningful Use” of HIT in Small, High-Volume Medicaid Practices
This technical assistance brief describes how Medicaid-led teams in four states are supporting practice improvements among Medicaid-serving providers by helping them to adopt and implement electronic registries.