Improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of publicly financed health care
Resources
|
The Center for Health Care Strategies publishes materials to share policy and operational lessons from our national initiatives. Additional resources can be found by browsing our Issue Areas.
Visitors may also request electronic copies of archived publications |
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
Creating Regional Quality Improvement: An Online ToolkitApril 2009 — This collection of publications and tools is designed to help health care leaders interested in innovative strategies for transforming the quality of chron… |
Toolkits |
HIT Provisions of the Stimulus Package: Opportunities for MedicaidApril 2009 — During this webinar, participants learned about specific opportunities for Medicaid presented by HIT stimulus provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Ac… |
Webinar Resources |
Maximizing Quality and Value in Medicaid: Using Return on Investment Forecasting to Support Effective PolicymakingApril 2009 — This policy brief describes how Medicaid stakeholders can use return on investment analyses to support value-based purchasing decisions. The brief includes specific … |
Policy & Issue Briefs |
User's Guide to the ROI Forecasting Calculator: Estimating ROI for Medicaid Quality Improvement ProgramsApril 2009 — This how-to guide was developed to help Medicaid stakeholders use the ROI Forecasting Calculator for Quality Initiatives to generate forecasts for prop… |
Technical Assistance Tools |
CHCS Testimony: Making the Case for Improving Long-Term Care Services and Supports: Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing – Wednesday, March 4, 2009March 2009 — This March 4, 2009 Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing focused on what the federal government, states, and individuals can do to improve how long-term care sup… |
Staff Presentations |
Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership: Considerations for Cost-EffectivenessMarch 2009 — This brief reviews considerations for states in how to design and market Partnership programs to achieve cost-effectiveness. It is the third in a series of briefs pr… |
Policy & Issue Briefs |
Provider Incentive Programs: An Opportunity for Medicaid to Improve Quality at the Point of CareMarch 2009 — This resource paper highlights provider-incentive approaches for states to consider based on the efforts of three Pay-for-Performance Purchasing Institute |
Resource Papers |
Roles for State Purchasers in Driving Cross-Payer Health Care Quality ImprovementMarch 2009 — This webinar explored public-private collaboratives that are transforming the quality of chronic care. Representatives from Rhode Island and Arkansas desc… |
Webinar Resources |
Improving Treatment of Depression Among Latinos With Diabetes Using Project Dulce and IMPACTFebruary 2009 — This article published in Diabetes Care explores the feasibility and cost of integrating diabetes and depression care management in three community clinics … |
Journal Articles |
Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Small-Scale Disease Management Pilot ProgramsFebruary 2009 — This article by Mathematica Policy Research published in Population Health Management describes a multi-method approach for evaluating small interventions t… |
Journal Articles |
Building a Medicaid Rapid-Learning Network: A Key Investment for Medicaid's FutureJanuary 2009 — This report discusses the role of advanced research, interventions, and evaluations to expand the evidence base for appropriate care of complex Medicaid populations.… |
Reports |
Business Case for Quality in Medicaid Managed Care - Final Grantee EvaluationsJanuary 2009 — As part of the final evaluation of CHCS' Business Case for Quality initiative, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prepared individual repo… |
Reports |
Evaluation of Oklahoma SoonerCare Medicaid Managed Care ProgramJanuary 2009 — This evaluation, by Mathematica Policy Research, examines Oklahoma's Medicaid program over the last 15 years, with an emphasis on the state's decision in 2003 to end… |
Reports |
CHCS Presentation - Quality Improvement in Medicaid: Opportunities for StatesDecember 2008 — At a National Conference of State Legislatures health policy gathering on December 10, 2008, Melanie Bella addressed what state Medicaid agencies can do to tr… |
Staff Presentations |
CHCS Presentation - Rising Rates of Chronic Health Conditions: What Can Be Done?December 2008 — At a Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) conference on July 31, 2008, Melanie Bella addressed opportunities to improve care for Medicaid beneficiaries w… |
Staff Presentations |
Managing the Care and Costs of High-Cost Beneficiaries in Medi-Cal Fee-for-ServiceDecember 2008 — As Medi-Cal consumes a growing share of the state budget, what can California policymakers do to control spending while improving quality and access to care? |
Meeting Highlights |
Medicaid Best Buys - Integrating Care for Dual Eligibles: Opportunities for StatesDecember 2008 — This webinar explored progress that states have made in integrating care for dual eligible populations via Special Needs Plans (SNPs), the challenges for i… |
Webinar Resources |
Medicaid: A Future Leader in Effective, High-Quality CareDecember 2008 — This open letter calls upon U.S. leaders and health policy decision makers to recognize the foundation that Medicaid can provide for high-quality health … |
Policy & Issue Briefs |
Washington State Medicaid: An Evolution in Care DeliveryDecember 2008 — This case study examines Washington State's adaptable "learn-as-you-go" approach to designing, testing, evaluating, and refining multiple strategies … |
Case Studies |
Demonstrating the Business Case for Quality in Medicaid: Challenges and OpportunitiesOctober 2008 — This study reports lessons from CHCS' Business Case for Quality (BCQ) initiative, a multi-site demonstration project evaluated by the University of North Ca… |
Journal Articles |