Delivery System Reform

Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Quality Measurement Strategy Tool

Adapting the Medicare Shared Savings Program to Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations

Core Considerations for Implementing Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations

Accountable Care Organizations in Medicaid: Emerging Practices to Guide Program Design

This brief highlights emerging best practices from state ACO activities across the country and summarizes safety-net ACO programs being developed in five states.

Innovations in Medicaid: Considerations for MassHealth

This report from the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute (MMPI), authored by Suzanne Gore of the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), outlines opportunities for Massachusetts to explore new innovations in care delivery and program design for MassHealth beneficiaries.

Health Care Purchasing, Global Budgeting, and Shared Savings Models

This overview charts the progress of global budgeting and shared savings models currently underway in various states.

Potential Risk-Sharing Between States and Coordinated Care Organizations

On September 20, 2011, Carolyn Ingram, CHCS senior vice president, presented to the Oregon Health Policy Board's Global Budget Methodology Workgroup.  

Accountable Care Organizations: Creating a Workable Approach for Medicaid

This issue brief outlines 10 key issues that CMS and states would need to address in developing a future Medicaid ACO Program.

Forecasting the Return on Investment of Health Homes and Medical Homes

During this 90-minute webinar, states, health plans, and other stakeholders learned how they can use this free, web-based tool to develop an ROI forecast, and to facilitate health home or medical home program design.

Implementing Health Homes in a Risk-Based Medicaid Managed Care Delivery System

This brief explores how states might advance their health home strategy in whole or in part through their existing Medicaid risk-based managed care infrastructures. It details some of the implicit advantages of MCO environments for the development of health homes, as well as some challenges that states may encounter.

Initial Considerations to Guide the Development of Medicaid Health Homes

This technical assistance tool outlines six key initial considerations and includes a hands-on checklist that walks states through a list of decision points to guide health home program design.

ROI Forecasting Calculator for Health Homes and Medical Homes

The Return on Investment Forecasting Calculator for Health Homes and Medical Homes is a web-based tool developed to help Medicaid stakeholders identify the cost-savings potential of these emerging care models. The easy-to-use tool walks users through a step-by-step process to develop ROI forecasts for health or medical home strategies.

User's Guide to the ROI Forecasting Calculator for Health Homes and Medical Homes

Medicaid stakeholders, faced with rising health care costs, increasing prevalence of chronic illness, and growing recognition of gaps in quality, are interested in programs that have the potential to both improve health outcomes and curb health care spending growth. To assist in these efforts, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) developed the Return on Investment Forecasting Calculator for Health Homes and Medical Homes.

Fact Sheet: Health Home Opportunities for Medicaid

This fact sheet provides an overview of the health homes provision, including a description of health homes services, who is eligible to receive these services, and who can provide the services.

Inventory of State's Medical Home and/or Care Management Programs

This tool was developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies to help states  inventory existing care management programs and decide those that can be aligned with health home services.  

Medicaid Health Home Program Design Strategies

Call summaries highlighting critical issues, emerging ideas, and state progress regarding Medicaid health home program design.

Section 4108 of the Affordable Care Act: Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Diseases

This fact sheet identifies considerations for states in deciding whether to apply for the incentive program.

Affordable Care Act Opportunities: A Roadmap for Medicaid Delivery System Redesign

CHCS developed this roadmap to help consumer advocates understand key provisions in the Affordable Care Act that are designed to improve patient care through Medicaid delivery system redesign.

The Affordable Care Act: Opportunities for Medicaid to Advance Ambulatory Care Quality

In this CHCS webinar, presenters described provisions of the Affordable Care Act that can be used to strengthen Medicaid's primary care infrastructure. 

Models for Improving Medicaid Primary Care: Lessons for Health Reform

This webinar described the evolving model of primary care, as well as practice-based primary care transformation strategies underway in two states.