Articles Tagged With: Medicaid
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Detailed Resource Tools for Care Coordinators and Case Managers
Case managers and care coordinators need such a wide range of knowledge about community resources to address their patients’ social determinants of health that resource tools can be a huge time-saver. For a care coordination program involving complex pediatric patients, leaders developed a series of nearly two dozen resource guides they call playbooks.
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Inside the Indiana Complex Care Coordination Collaborative
Indiana’s Medicaid program administrators found value in embedding nurse care coordinators in primary care practices to address social determinants of health and transitional care issues in a population of children with complex medical issues.
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Indiana Medicaid Officials Embrace Care Coordination Project
A project to improve care coordination for children with complex medical needs revealed well-trained nurse care coordinators could manage a 100-patient caseload and improve outcomes. Nurse care coordinators were embedded in primary care provider offices and were trained to provide care coordination, including helping patients with medical and social needs.
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Many Safety Net, Rural Hospitals Do Not Properly Address Social Needs
Safety net hospitals, critical care hospitals, and rural hospitals often do less than needed to address the social determinants of health of their vulnerable populations, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.
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Intensive Care Management Works with Complex Medicaid Population
One way to reduce costs among a population of high-cost, high-utilization Medicaid patients is to use intensive care management. In a study of an intervention involving a nonprofit organization that provides integrated care to complex patients, investigators found a reduction of more than $1,900 in total medical expense per member per month.
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The Role of Critical Access Hospitals
In rural areas, critical access hospitals provide care to patients who otherwise would have to travel much further for adequate care. Serving in a critical access hospital can be a much different experience than a larger hospital system, or even a hospital in an urban or suburban environment. Due to lack of training and support, even the case management process might not be as seamless or efficient as it is in other settings.
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Healthcare on 2022 Midterm Ballots
Reproductive rights, healthcare business, integrative medicine top of mind for voters in several states.
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Attacks on Contraception Access Happening in Abortion-Ban States
Faster than most reproductive health providers could have anticipated, some abortion-ban states, politicians, and institutions have attacked contraception access. Some predict a coordinated attack on contraception in 2023 in states that have already toyed with the idea of banning emergency contraception and IUDs.
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Care Managers Help Improve Birth Outcomes with Prenatal Coordination
Recent research shows a prenatal care initiative, called Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns, can produce positive health results. The program works with Medicaid beneficiaries in more than 30 states through maternity care homes.
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Feds Sign Off on Oregon’s Mobile Mental Crisis Intervention Service
This is the first state to receive funds for a program designed to deploy trained professionals into the community to better manage citizens with mental health and/or substance use issues.