Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities

Improving Health Care Quality and Equity: Considerations for Building Partnerships Between Provider Practices and Community Organizations

This brief outlines considerations for practices looking to develop partnerships with community organizations.

Key Factors for Improving Care Delivery in Small Primary Care Practices with High Medicaid Volume

Advancing Primary Care: Opportunities to Support Care Delivery Redesign in Practices Serving Medicaid and Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients

Transforming 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.

Impact of the Insurance Exchanges on Latino Health Improvements

On September 24, 2011, Carolyn Ingram, CHCS senior vice president, presented at the Latino Legislative Summit on Health on the implications of the exchange structure for Latino populations with complex health needs. 

Practice Supports: Using Care Managers and Quality Improvement Coaches to Transform Medicaid Primary Care

This technical assistance brief outlines how states are using innovative practice supports to help Medicaid primary care practices provide higher-quality, more patient-centered, and cost-effective care.

Care at Birth and Beyond: Analysis of High-Volume Medicaid Obstetric and Pediatric Practices

Through this project, CHCS is working to inform future state efforts in health care system redesign and practice-site interventions to improve health quality and reduce disparities in care for Medicaid/CHIP beneficiaries.

Health Literacy Implications of the Affordable Care Act

CHCS President Stephen A. Somers and Program Associate Roopa Mahadevan presented the paper Health Literacy Implications of the Affordable Care Act at an Institute of Medicine workshop on November 10, 2010.

Leveraging Medicaid to Encourage HIT Adoption and Strengthen Primary Care

Dianne Hasselman, CHCS director of quality and equality, recently presented "Leveraging Medicaid to Encourage HIT Adoption and Strengthen Primary Care" at the 2010 Medicaid Managed Care Congress.

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. 

Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site: Front-line Perspectives

In a series of video interviews, participants in CHCS' Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site initiative share insights into how the program is advancing chronic care delivery in small, primary care practices.

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.

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.

Improving Chronic Care in Small, “High-Opportunity” Primary Care Practices

This February 24, 2010 webinar presented opportunities for Medicaid agencies and health plans to improve chronic care at small practice sites. Medicaid leaders from Michigan and Pennsylvania discussed their involvement in CHCS' Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site initiative.

Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site: Highlights of the Second National Meeting

Download presentations from the second national meeting of the Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site initiative where participants from four state teams came together to review progress, share experiences, and plan for the second year of the initiative.

The Relationship between Practice Size and Quality of Care in Medicaid

This resource paper presents the findings of CHCS' Practice Size Exploratory Project, which examined the quality of care that Medicaid managed care beneficiaries receive in different practice settings in Arkansas; Michigan; Erie County, and Bronx, New York; and Southwest Pennsylvania.

Improving Treatment of Depression Among Latinos With Diabetes Using Project Dulce and IMPACT

This article published in Diabetes Care explores the feasibility and cost of integrating diabetes and depression care management in three community clinics serving a low-income and predominately Spanish-speaking Latino population.

Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site

October 2008 - December 2011

Using Data to Identify High-Volume, High-Opportunity Practice Sites: A Medicaid Primer

This primer highlights the results of the Practice Size Exploratory Project (PSEP), the relationship between practice size and quality of care, and racial/ethnic disparities in access and care.