Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.
Details the landscape of integrated care models and identifies policy recommendations to increase the availability of integrated care for dually eligible individuals.
Poses key questions to help states new to Medicare-Medicaid integration assess readiness for integration and select an achievable integration approach.
The Independence at Home demonstration showed mixed results for Medicare savings and utilization, but participating patients and caregivers reported high satisfaction with the home-based primary care that they received.
Among high-cost Medicare enrollees, those who are seriously ill, frail, and/or had a serious mental illness experience the most potentially preventable spending.
Highlights early findings demonstrating that Medicare-Medicaid integration can improve beneficiary experience and health outcomes, increase program efficiencies, and improve Medicaid program management.
A unique cross-sector partnership involving health care, police, and emergency services improved health care utilization in this rural health system pilot.
When identifying patients with complex health needs for interventions, algorithms that rely on cost data as a proxy for health status may lead to under-identification of Black patients.