Care management for Medicaid enrollees through community health teams
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Takach, Mary, author Buxbaum, Jason, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, 2013
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Community Health Workers Medicaid Patient Care Management Patient-Centered Care Cost Control Delivery of Health Care, Integrated Health Services Needs and Demand Models, Economic Patient Care Team Primary Health Care Quality Improvement Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The effective management of patients' complex illnesses across providers, settings, and systems places extraordinary demands on primary care providers, especially those that work in resource-limited small or rural practices. Medicaid programs in some states have adopted strategies to build practice capacity to care for high-need Medicaid beneficiaries through the development of local community health teams, with members in fields such as nursing, behavioral health, pharmacy, and social work. Using data from a 2011--2012 review of state Medicaid medical home programs, we identified community health team programs in eight states that provide an array of targeted services, from care coordination to self-management coaching. The programs feature frequent in-person contact with patients and integration with primary care providers and community resources. Early data suggests this model may reduce costs and improve quality while enabling many resource-strained practices to offer a full array of medical home services.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (18 pages))
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101611270 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101611270