Primary care and alternative payment models that reduce emergency department use and increase access to care for high-need populations share core components for success.
Discusses the benefits and challenges of tele-social care and offers practical tips for providers administering telehealth services for social care activities.
Describes core competencies that convey the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes of complex care practitioners and teams to improve care for people with complex needs.
Demonstrates that intensive outpatient care programs show promise in reducing utilization and costs and improving patient outcomes for high-need, high-cost populations.
Offers a practical framework for safety-net health systems to better identify and segment patients with complex needs, and tailor care models to meet their needs.
Integrated health care systems can better support high-risk patients by embedding high-risk patient care within general primary care and mental health care.
Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.
Virginia’s comprehensive Medicaid reform for substance use treatment services led to an increase in outpatient and community-based treatment and a decrease in emergency department and inpatient use among beneficiaries with opioid use disorder.