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  • Supporting Healthy Child Development through Medical Homes: Strategies from ABCD III States

    Through Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon have developed and tested models to improve care coordination for children with or at risk of developmental delay.  The medical home has been a key mechanism in their improvement efforts. This brief draws from these states’ experiences to outline opportunities and lessons for state policy makers to consider in order to strengthen medical home initiatives by explicitly addressing the needs of children.

    Download the file: child.development.medical.home_.abcd_.III_.pdf
    November 2012
  • New Denial and Disenrollment Coding Strategies to Drive State Enrollment Performance

    Tracking why individuals lose coverage can be a powerful tool for states to understand public coverage programs. This brief makes recommendations to improve the coding of denials and disenrollments suggesting fourteen codes to replace current complex codesets, which in some states number over 100 codes. Streamlining can help states to get a better handle on churn and track the effects of eligibility policy changes. This brief was written by NASHP staff in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., evaluators for the Maximizing Enrollment program. A related report describes a broader set of enrollment and retention performance measures.  

    Download the file: new.denial.disenrollment.coding.strategies.pdf
    October 2012
  • Aligning Health Information Technology and Delivery System Transformation Efforts: Themes from a Discussion Among State and National Leaders.

    This State Health Policy Brief captures the main themes of an April 2012 meeting of state and national leaders to discuss their vision for a future in which delivery system transformation capitalizes on the true potential of technology to improve the health care system. It includes a description of challenges leaders identified across four dimensions of reform activity: provider and plan measurement and feedback, payment reform, care delivery innovation, and consumer engagement. The brief also describes successful strategies leading states are using to overcome these challenges and concludes with leaders’ recommended next steps to make significant progress.

    Download the file: aligning.hit_.and_.delivery.system.pdf
    October 2012

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