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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.
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New Jersey Smiles Intervention Change Package and Measurement Plan for Improving Oral Health Care for Young KidsAugust 2008 — This project Change Package describes interventions designed to increase the number of children ages 0-5 who receive an annual dental visit and ensure those at hig… |
Technical Assistance Tools |
Highlights from the 2008 Long-Term Care Partnership SummitAugust 2008 — The Long-Term Care Partnership Summit brought together representatives from 18 states involved in the Long-Term Care Partnership Expansion Project |
Meeting Highlights |
Medicaid Best Buys: Using Predictive Modeling to Pinpoint “High-Opportunity” Medicaid BeneficiariesAugust 2008 — This 90-minute webinar addressed how Medicaid stakeholders can apply predictive modeling approaches to identify beneficiaries who are most likely to benefit from c… |
Webinar Resources |
Creating Provider-Level Pay-for-Performance Programs in Medicaid: A CHCS WebExchangeJuly 2008 — Through this CHCS WebExchange, states, health plans, and providers learned how Medicaid programs can influence quality at the point of care through provid… |
Webinar Resources |
EPSDT at 40: Modernizing a Pediatric Health Policy to Reflect a Changing Health Care SystemJuly 2008 — This report examines the continuing role of EPSDT benefits in Medicaid including information about the flexibility provided by the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA)… |
Resource Papers |
Medicaid Best Buys: Performance Measurement for Programs Serving Adults with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions: A CHCS WebExchangeJuly 2008 — During this CHCS WebExchange participants heard about promising performance measurement approaches for Medicaid programs being tested by states … |
Webinar Resources |
Supporting Practice Improvement: The Role of Medi-Cal Health PlansJune 2008 — This report highlights key themes gleaned from the Plan/Practice Improvement Project, particularly ways in which health plans can support practi… |
Reports |
Forecasting Return on Investment for Medicaid Quality Initiatives: A CHCS WebExchangeMay 2008 — During this CHCS WebExchange, CHCS demonstrated the ROI Forecasting Calculator for Quality Initiatives and participants in the ROI … |
Webinar Resources |
Medicaid Best Buys - Opportunities to Bend the Cost Trend for High-Need, High-Cost Beneficiaries: A CHCS WebinarMay 2008 — This webinar is part one in a series co-sponsored by CHCS and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices that identified where Med… |
Webinar Resources |
Negotiating the New Health System at Ten: Medicaid Managed Care and the Use of Disease Management PurchasingMay 2008 — This Negotiating the New Health System study takes a close look at the role of disease management in Medicaid purchasing in 10 states. |
Resource Papers |
The National Health Plan Collaborative: Featured in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyMay 2008 — This article discusses how the health plans participating in the National Health Plan Collaborative (NHPC) were able to overcome initial challenges in obt… |
Journal Articles |
Issue Brief: Using ROI Forecasting to Maximize the Value of Medicaid InvestmentsApril 2008 — This issue brief profiles state experiences in using the ROI Forecasting Calculator for Quality Initiatives and outlines how ROI forecasting can help… |
Policy & Issue Briefs |
Medicaid Managed Care for Children in Child WelfareApril 2008 — This issue brief examines the complex physical and behavioral health care needs and associated costs for children in child welfare and outlines critical opportunit… |
Policy & Issue Briefs |
Physician-Level Pay-for-Performance: A Dashboard Report of State Program Design EffortsApril 2008 — This dashboard reflects the program goals, structure and progress of five states that are working with CHCS to design sophisticated provider incentive pr… |
Technical Assistance Tools |
Presentations from the Medicaid Purchasing Leadership SummitApril 2008 — Download presentations from the Medicaid Purchasing Leadership Summit which brought together leaders from 15 state Medicaid agencies, health plans, and Me… |
Meeting Highlights |
ROI Forecasting Calculator for Quality InitiativesApril 2008 — The ROI Forecasting Calculator for Quality Initiatives is a web-based tool designed to help state Medicaid agencies, health plans, and other stakeholders … |
Technical Assistance Tools |
The CMS Medicaid Targeted Case Management Rule: Implications for Special Needs Service Providers and ProgramsApril 2008 — This issue brief examines the CMS targeted case management rule, issued December 4, 2007, in the context of people with complex health needs who receive community-… |
Policy & Issue Briefs |
Using Pay-for-Performance to Support HIT Efforts in MissouriApril 2008 — Missouri, one of seven states participating in the Center for Health Care Strategies Pay-for-Performance Purchasing Institute, developed an innovative P4P… |
Case Studies |
Challenges to Using A Business Case for Addressing Health DisparitiesMarch 2008 — In this Health Affairs article the authors consider the challenges to quantifying both the business case and the social case for addressing disparities, whi… |
Journal Articles |
Medicaid Best Buys: Improving Care Management for High-Need, High-Cost BeneficiariesMarch 2008 — This brief outlines important steps for states to consider in designing comprehensive programs for this complex need population. It also highlights three states th… |
Policy & Issue Briefs |