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Policy Strategies To Propel Community Health Centers Into Value-Based Payment
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2025.
Part One: Advancing Value Through Transformation Webinar Series: Focus on State Reform Efforts
The Task Force hosted part one in our “Advancing Value Through Transformation” webinar series examining the Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) waiver program in the context of evolving state-level delivery system reform innovations.
Easing Transitions: CalAIM’s Changes for California’s Older Adults and People with Disabilities
More than two million seniors and people with disabilities (SPDs) enrolled in Medi-Cal in California will be impacted by reforms, initiatives, and new policies being developed through CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal).
Emerging Policy Opportunities for Community-Based Serious Illness Care
The pandemic has accelerated trends moving the delivery of care into the home or community. Yet, care at home largely remains the province of better resourced individuals, due to limited funding by government programs. Medicaid, the federal/state program of health care for people of lower income, has the potential to address these equity issues through waivers or plan amendments.
CalAIM and Institutional Long-Term Care: Lessons for Medi-Cal Managed Care
CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal) is a comprehensive, multiyear effort led by the California Department of Health Care Services that seeks to implement broad delivery system, program, and payment reform across California’s Medi-Cal program.
Throw health centers a lifeline by replacing outdated payment model
At this crucial moment before a second wave of COVID-19 crests and crashes, policymakers should confront a significant payment problem brewing within our primary-care safety net that, if unaddressed, threatens care for millions of Americans.
Advancing Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Continuum-Based Framework
The need to bring high-quality treatment and management of depression, anxiety, and other common behavioral health conditions into primary care has been well documented, but for small to medium-size practices the complex models that are the standard for integrating medical and behavioral care are often beyond their resources.
Accountable Care Organizations: A Case Study in the Use of Care Coordination: Montefiore Medical Center
This chapter traces the history of Montefiore’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) development including care management experience prior to the Affordable Care Act, administrative structure, and the use of care management as a central element in its ACO.
Leveraging Public Private Partnerships to Address Global Vaccine Needs Evaluation of the Merck-Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories
This report offers an evaluation of Merck-Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories (Hilleman Laboratories or the labs), a public private venture launched in 2009 by the Wellcome Trust and Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck), intended to contribute to the development of high-impact, affordable vaccines for people in developing countries.
Responding to People Who Have Been Victimized by Individuals with Mental Illnesses
The discussion focuses on two victims’ rights: notification and information concerning the location and case status of defendants and those convicted of the crimes at issue for victims; and participation in hearings and court proceedings related to the case.
