Community health worker interventions are effective for improving health behaviors and outcomes and reducing health care costs for people with chronic disease.
One health plan’s approach to addressing racial and ethnic disparities in medication adherence rates offers insights on levers to address racial inequities.
Behavioral health wraparound program led to reduced utilization and costs in first month after an emergency department or behavioral health admission, but mixed results occurred in subsequent months.
Describes the core elements and evidence base behind a home- and community-based palliative care model that was designed by stakeholders to support the health needs of people with serious illness.
This guide describes key strategies for health plans, accountable care organizations, and health systems to improve care for people with serious illness.
Accountable care organization leaders share perspectives on payment mechanisms used with social service organizations, challenges experienced, and the impacts of these partnerships.
This toolkit shares business strategies, sample protocols, and best practice clinical tools for health care providers interested in developing a home-based palliative care program.
A home-based palliative care program in a full-risk financial arrangement showed consistent cost savings and lower hospital utilization across a 10-year period.
A home-based palliative care program using an interdisciplinary care team reduces hospital costs and unnecessary health care utilization for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
A community-based palliative care program reduced medical costs, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, hospital admissions, and days spent in the hospital for Medicare Advantage members with serious illness.
Home-based palliative care program implemented within an accountable care organization created cost savings through reduced hospital admissions and increased hospice length of stay.
This case study analyzes a successful example of a medical group partnering with a home health agency to provide community-based palliative care for high-risk members of their accountable care organization.
Medicare Advantage plans report different barriers to partnering with community-based organizations, but there are strategies to develop effective partnerships.
Systematic review demonstrates the potential of home-based primary care interventions for improving heath, cost, and patient experience outcomes for adults with multiple chronic conditions and serious disabilities.
Primary care and alternative payment models that reduce emergency department use and increase access to care for high-need populations share core components for success.
Analysis of recent and projected growth of expanded supplemental benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans — such as meals, transportation, and in-home support services.