Lessons from Los Angeles County’s Housing for Health program to reduce homelessness.

Housing First programs reduce homelessness and health care use more effectively than Treatment First approaches.

Community health worker programs can offset program costs through reduced utilization.

The value of community health workers in advancing health equity.

CHW intervention reduced health care costs and utilization for low-income women with depression.

Demonstrating return-on-investment to advance effective business relationships between community-based organizations and health care partners.

How can a community-based organization demonstrate the two-way financial benefits of partnering with a health plan?

Effective complex care measures vary widely and need to be standardized to better align the field of complex care.

Health homes may increase access to mental health care and substance use disorder treatment in Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

Provider-based model identifies patients at highest risk for complications from COVID-19.

Social workers on rural primary care teams may help decrease high-risk veterans’ acute care use.

California’s Whole Person Care pilot can inform cross-sector initiatives to improve care for Medicaid enrollees with complex health and social needs.

Adults with complex, high-cost health care needs are more likely to have experienced social adversity in childhood and adulthood.

Among high-cost Medicare enrollees, those who are seriously ill, frail, and/or had a serious mental illness experience the most potentially preventable spending.

Highlighted lessons from two recent studies to help guide future program and measurement approaches for complex care management interventions.

Integrating medical, behavioral health, and social services data tells a fuller story of frequent emergency department users’ service utilization and may identify candidates for care coordination.

Individuals experiencing homelessness had health care spending 2.5 times higher than the comparison Medicaid population.

Ten common attributes for successful care management programs serving high-need, high-cost populations.

Providing virtual case mentoring to outpatient care teams may reduce unnecessary hospital and emergency department visits for high-need, high-cost patients.

Connecting complex care teams with specialists through videoconferencing can increase their effectiveness in caring for high-need high-cost patients.