Going Beyond Clinical Care to Reduce Health Care Spending

Authors
Shannon M.E. Murphy
Douglas E. Hough
Martha L. Sylvia
Melissa Sherry
Linda J. Dunbar
Raymond Zollinger
Regina Richardson
Scott A. Berkowitz
Kevin D. Frick
Peer-Reviewed Article
July 2018

This resource describes a study of the Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership (J-CHiP), which was created as a regional approach to health care transformation in Baltimore, Maryland.

  • J-CHiP deployed a comprehensive set of care coordination programs across the continuum of traditional, and nontraditional, health care settings.
  • The intervention augmented care management with programs designed to address barriers to health.
  • This analysis evaluates whether J-CHiP’s approach to population health management achieved the desired reduction in costs and acute utilization for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries in East Baltimore.
  • The analysis failed to detect statistically significant cost savings. However, from a health care innovations perspective, the results highlight promising aspects of the J-CHiP program and also indicate areas in need of improvement.
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