Medicaid Managed Care Best Practices Compendium

Brief/Report
January 2017

This resource collects the most innovative initiatives in Medicaid managed care that emerge each year.

  • Health plans submit their best practices for consideration of inclusion in this exclusive publication.
  • The best practices in this year’s publication address important health care topics, including psychiatric care, social determinants of health, and substance use disorders.
  • The innovations are divided into five categories: behavioral health, long-term care and transitions of care, children’s health, and oral health. For each category, a winner is selected.
  • Examples of selected programs include support services to mentally ill homeless people who were formerly incarcerated, a 24/7 crisis response line for foster children with psychiatric needs, and multidisciplinary chronic pain management.
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Level of Evidence
Promising
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