Rural, older adult, and Black populations are less likely to use telehealth for behavioral health services. More research is needed to fully understand telehealth’s impact on health equity.

Research review finds Medicaid accountable care organizations show promise for increasing primary care visits and reducing hospital admissions, with mixed results for quality, outcomes, and costs.

Interdisciplinary care teams, telehealth, and flexible payment models are included as key recommendations to increase access to home-based primary care in rural communities.

This webinar featured a rural Pennsylvania partnership and its experience implementing trauma-informed care across a network of providers.

Using “equity weighting” may improve quality measurement efforts intending to advance health equity for underserved groups.

An interdisciplinary home-based primary care program for older adults with limited mobility leads to reductions in health care utilization and costs.

Having onsite care coordinators may significantly improve the quality of patient care, while centralized coordination is associated with increased information sharing.

A program to connect Medicaid ACO enrollees with nutrition and housing-related services demonstrated early indications of effectiveness.

Integrated care in MassHealth ACOs varies greatly across primary care practice type and is associated with greater ability to improve care quality and advance health equity.

Community health worker interventions are effective for improving health behaviors and outcomes and reducing health care costs for people with chronic disease.

Findings from a literature review and state interviews share experiences and outcomes of implementing Medicaid accountable care organization programs.

Assigning dually eligible individuals with mental illness to ACOs was associated with shifts to lower-cost outpatient settings, but did not affect overall spending and utilization.

Highlighted two community paramedicine programs in New England and rural North Carolina that serve people with complex needs.

An intensive care management intervention led to over $23,000 savings per year in total medical expenses for participating high-risk Medicaid ACO enrollees.

Described how health care organizations and community-based organizations can use the ROI Calculator to explore and plan financial arrangements to fund social services for people with complex needs.

This study identifies facilitators and barriers of hospital- and community-based harm reduction collaboration efforts and highlights hospital-based opportunities to better serve people who use drugs.

Accountable care organization leaders share perspectives on payment mechanisms used with social service organizations, challenges experienced, and the impacts of these partnerships.

Explored how complex care stakeholders can incorporate a multi-factor approach to measure and demonstrate the value of complex care programs for diverse stakeholders.

Advancing more equitable access to telehealth may require care coordination strategies deployed alongside telehealth.