Approximately one in three Medicare beneficiaries is enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, and more than one third of these MA enrollees are classified as high need based on their chronic...
This resource features a recording of a WIHI audio program from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which featured Better Care Playbook faculty, including R. Corey Waller, MD, and Catherine...
This resource shares 10 questions that California’s Medicaid managed care plans are now required to ask patients about their social and functional needs. These questions could serve as a model for...
The Commonwealth Fund surveyed patients with complex needs from June to September of 2016, and an analysis of the results reveals that the health care system is failing to meet these patients’ needs...
This resource analyzes nationwide 2014 ED data across 13 geographically dispersed US states. Findings include: For ED visits covered by Medicaid, high-need, high-cost patients were on average older...
To inform the delivery of targeted care for the highest-need beneficiaries, this resource examines comorbidity patterns among Medicaid beneficiaries under 65 years old with disabilities. Key findings...
This resource describes opportunities to use digital health products for high-need, high-cost populations. It summarizes the results of the Super-Utilizer Health Innovation Challenge, run by the...
This resource provides an introduction to trauma‐informed care, describing how it can serve high‐need, high‐cost Medicaid populations. It includes three case studies of innovative programs and a chart...
This resource provides personas, which are character profiles aggregated from a collection of interviews with members of a population, for three subgroups of the high-need population. The personas...
This resource reviews the case for segmenting patients with complex needs and different ways of segmenting, as well as challenges and limitations. The high-need, high-cost population is heterogeneous...
This resource examines the characteristics and health care experiences of adults with high needs, defined as people with three or more chronic diseases and a functional limitation. (The data predate...
This resource examines health care spending and use of services among adults with high needs, defined as people who have three or more chronic diseases and a functional limitation. One in 20 US adults...
