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Transforming the Workforce to Provide Better Care: The Role of Nurses in Certifying Minnesota Health Care Homes
/in Policy Minnesota Reports Care Coordination, Chronic and Complex Populations, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Community Health Workers, Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access, Health System Costs, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Population Health, Primary Care/Patient-Centered/Health Home, Quality and Measurement, Workforce Capacity /by Mary TakachPart 4 in the Transforming the Workforce to Provide Better Chronic Care: The Role of Registered Nurses series. Click to see the rest of the series. Minnesota Health Care Homes (HCH), a patient-centered medical home initiative, utilizes regionally-based nurse planners to ensure that HCH practices are meeting specific standards of care that aim to foster […]
A Day in the Life of Behavioral Health Nurse Care Coordinator Amber Morgan of Hennepin Health
/in Policy Minnesota Behavioral/Mental Health and SUD, Care Coordination, Chronic and Complex Populations, Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access, Health System Costs, Long-Term Care, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Primary Care/Patient-Centered/Health Home, Workforce Capacity /by NASHP StaffCaring for the health care needs of vulnerable populations has inherent challenges. Doing this in an accountable care organization (ACO), where providers bear financial risk for meeting cost, quality, and patient satisfaction metrics, intensifies the challenges. When Hennepin Health launched in 2012 to serve as a safety-net ACO for Minnesota’s early Medicaid expansion population, it […]
Opportunities for Enrolling Justice-Involved Individuals in Medicaid
/in Policy Behavioral/Mental Health and SUD, Chronic and Complex Populations, Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access, Health System Costs, Medicaid Expansion, Medicaid Managed Care, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Safety Net Providers and Rural Health /by Anita CardwellHealth insurance options now available through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offer new opportunities to enroll individuals involved in the criminal justice system into coverage. In states that have expanded Medicaid, many newly eligible will be young, low-income males, some with involvement with the criminal justice system. Justice-involved individuals especially could benefit from coverage as […]
Transforming the Workforce to Provide Better Chronic Care: The Role of a Behavioral Health Nurse Care Coordinator in Minnesota
/in Policy Minnesota Reports Behavioral/Mental Health and SUD, Care Coordination, Chronic and Complex Populations, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Community Health Workers, Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access, Health System Costs, Physical and Behavioral Health Integration, Population Health, Primary Care/Patient-Centered/Health Home, Workforce Capacity /by Mary TakachPart 3 in the Transforming the Workforce to Provide Better Chronic Care: The Role of Registered Nurses series. Click to see the rest of the series. Hennepin Health, a safety-net accountable care organization in Minnesota, has begun to integrate primary care into Hennepin County Mental Health Center through a behavioral health nurse care coordinator. The […]
The Affordable Care Act: Affording Two-Generation Approaches to Health
/in Policy Reports Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access /by Alan Weil and Shayla RegmiThis publication offers the first comprehensive look at the opportunities in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to drive better outcomes for children and parents together.
Care Coordination under the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents
/in Policy Webinars Chronic and Complex Populations, Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPTuesday, September 9, 2014: Care coordination provides a bridge across multiple systems that serve children and families, helping to ensure that a child receives additional screening, diagnosis and/or treatment as recommended by a health care practitioner. Care coordination strategies can help link providers and care settings by facilitating the arrangement of: appointments, referral forms, transportation, reminders and follow-up, and feedback reporting. This NASHP webinar provides a federal perspective from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on opportunities and promising strategies for states to coordinate care for children and adolescents enrolled in Medicaid.
Beyond the Screening: Treatment Services under the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents
/in Policy Webinars Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPThursday, July 24, 2014: This NASHP webinar provides a federal perspective from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on how states can leverage the Medicaid benefit for children and adolescents (also known as EPSDT) to meet the treatment needs of children. This is followed by a conversation with presenters from Colorado and Washington about treatment services under the EPSDT benefit and their processes for determining service coverage.
Individual Marketplace Pediatric Dental Benefit Decisions for 2014
/in Policy Charts CHIP, Eligibility and Enrollment, Health Coverage and Access, Oral Health, Population Health /by Keerti KanchinadamThis chart highlights marketplace policy decisions related to pediatric dental coverage for the 2014 plan year. It tracks the kinds of pediatric dental products that marketplaces solicited and offered on the marketplace in 2014, particularly whether dental benefits were offered through stand-alone dental products (SADP), as “bundled” products that paired a specific SADP and a qualified […]
Engaging Adolescents Through the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents
/in Policy Webinars Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPWednesday, May 21, 2014: This NASHP webinar offers a federal perspective from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on opportunities and promising strategies for states to leverage the Medicaid benefit for children and adolescents to better engage and meet the needs of adolescents. This is followed by a conversation with presenters from two states about initiatives they have launched to better serve adolescents using the Medicaid benefit for children. Participants learn about these states’ strategies for getting Medicaid-enrolled adolescents the services they need, and key lessons learned in implementing them.
Using Consumer Experience Surveys for Quality Improvement in Maine Health Centers
/in Policy Reports Cost, Payment, and Delivery Reform, Health Coverage and Access /by NASHPMaine was one of six states selected to participate in NASHP’s Medicaid-Safety Net Learning Collaborative. NASHP helped organize a series of web trainings for Maine’s health centers on using the Consumer Assessment for Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) patient satisfaction survey for quality improvement and staff training. CAHPS is being used in the state’s expansion […]
For individuals living with complex, often chronic conditions, and their families, palliative care can provide relief from symptoms, improve satisfaction and outcomes, and help address critical mental and spiritual needs during difficult times. Now more than ever, there is growing recognition of the importance of palliative care services for individuals with serious illness, such as advance care planning, pain and symptom management, care coordination, and team-based, multi-disciplinary support. These services can help patients and families cope with the symptoms and stressors of disease, better anticipate and avoid crises, and reduce unnecessary and/or unwanted care. While this model is grounded in evidence that demonstrates improved quality of life, better outcomes, and reduced cost for patients, only a fraction of individuals who could benefit from palliative care receive it. 
Rhode Island Looks to Auto-Enrollment to Ease Transitions from Medicaid to Marketplace
/in Health Coverage and Access, Policy Rhode Island Blogs, Featured News Home State Insurance Marketplaces /by Gia Gould and Maureen Hensley-Quinn