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Value-Based Purchasing: Experiences of a Service Provider

Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this brief outlines the lessons learned by one social service provider in exploring a value-based contract with a managed care insurance plan.

Posted Jul 17, 2018

Topics Delivering Better Care Paying for Care Public & Population Health

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Value-Based Purchasing: Making Good Health Good Business

Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this report explains how changing the we pay for health and health care, can incentivize the health improvements and health care cost outcomes we want.

Posted Jul 17, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health

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New Research Predicts Block Granting, Per Capita Caps Would Reduce Health Centers Capacity to Serve the Underserved

Studies presented at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting also examine linkages between Medicaid and preventable hospitalization and health care quality.

Posted Jun 25, 2018 By Lauren Adams, M.A.

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid ARM News

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Innovative Medicaid Payment Strategies for Upstream Prevention and Population Health: An Executive Summary

AcademyHealth collaborated with Nemours Children’s Health System to help state Medicaid programs test approaches to financing upstream prevention and addressing social determinants of health. This brief highlights lessons learned and synthesizes important takeaways from that work.

Posted May 08, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

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Moving Medicaid Prevention Services Upstream

Highlighting work in Maryland, this brief outlines how a state Medicaid agency can maximize existing authority to delivery nutritional counseling in Head Start settings in an effort to prevent obesity.

Posted May 08, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Building Healthy Communities Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health

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Medicaid and Head Start

Medicaid cannot address and invest in social determinants on its own. This brief highlights Head Start as a natural partner offering significant opportunity for alignment of care coordination and service delivery with Medicaid.

Posted May 08, 2018

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Paying for Care Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

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Integrating Community Health Workers into State and Local Chronic Disease Prevention Efforts

This brief explores the unique role community health workers can play in addressing the social needs that have tremendous impact on the burden of chronic disease.

Posted May 08, 2018

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health Paying for Care

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Implementing Social Determinants of Health Interventions in Medicaid Managed Care

AcademyHealth and Nemours work in Oregon highlighted that the 2016 Medicaid Managed Care Rules enable Medicaid to fund and pay for a wide range of upstream interventions via managed care.

Posted May 07, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

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Making the Case for Prevention

Working with the Washington Health Care Authority, AcademyHealth and Nemours examined the evidence base supporting upstream prevention investments from a business perspective.

Posted May 04, 2018

Topics Paying for Care Building Healthy Communities Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health

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States Turn to Medicaid Managed Care to Coordinate Long-Term Services and Supports

Trends in state programs provide an opportunity to examine how long-term services and supports (LTSS) are being financed and implemented. This post previews a forthcoming webinar from AcademyHealth’s LTSS interest group that will provide an overview of Medicaid financed Managed LTSS.

Posted Apr 23, 2018 By Shekinah Fashaw, MSPH

Topics Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Membership