Medical Care at Home Comes of Age Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base. Brief/Report January 2021
Aligning Social and Health Care Services: The Case of Community Care Connections Demonstrates that a program assisting older adults with complex needs in navigating medical and social services may lower acute care utilization. Peer-Reviewed Article November 2020
Effective Care Management by Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations Complex care management program within Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations reduced cost and utilization for high-risk Medicare beneficiaries. Peer-Reviewed Article July 2020
What’s Next? The Value of Evidence from the Camden Coalition and CareMore Health to Inform Complex Care Program Design Highlighted lessons from two recent studies to help guide future program and measurement approaches for complex care management interventions. Webinar March 2020
Impact of Complex Care Management on Spending and Utilization for High-Need, High-Cost Medicaid Patients Complex care management program for high-need, high-cost Medicaid patients demonstrates substantially lower spending and inpatient utilization. Peer-Reviewed Article February 2020
Health Care Hotspotting — A Randomized, Controlled Trial Randomized controlled trial of a care management intervention offers important lessons for the field of complex care. Peer-Reviewed Article January 2020
The Common Attributes of Successful Care Manager Programs for High-Need, High-Cost Persons: A Cross-Case Analysis Ten common attributes for successful care management programs serving high-need, high-cost populations. Peer-Reviewed Article October 2019
‘Eyes in The Home’: ACOs Use Home Visits to Improve Care Management, Identify Needs, And Reduce Hospital Use How home visits are used by ACOs to improve care, lower costs. Peer-Reviewed Article June 2019
Care Management for Older Adults: The Roles of Nurses, Social Workers, and Physicians How staff composition affects care delivery for older adults. Peer-Reviewed Article June 2019
Identifying and Designing the Right Care Management Program: Insights from ACOs Four care management models for ACOs. Implementation Tool April 2019
How ACOs Are Caring for People with Complex Needs An analysis of the National Survey of ACOs Brief/Report December 2018
Outpatient Complex Case Management: Health System-Tailored Risk Stratification Taxonomy to Identify High-Cost, High-Need Patients Maximizing the impact of outpatient complex case management. Peer-Reviewed Article November 2018
Going Beyond Clinical Care to Reduce Health Care Spending A regional approach to health care transformation. Peer-Reviewed Article July 2018
Bending the Spending Curve: The Role of Care Management in a Pioneer ACO ACOs have lowered costs for high-need patients through care management programs focused on modifiable spending. Peer-Reviewed Article May 2017
Disruptive Models in Primary Care: Caring for High-Needs, High-Cost Populations Promising approaches to managing care illustrated through a clinical vignette. Case Example April 2017
CareMore: Improving Outcomes and Controlling Health Care Spending for High-Needs Patients CareMore’s business model identifies high-risk patients and surrounds them with coordinated services Case Example March 2017
Innovative Home Visit Models Associated with Reductions in Costs, Hospitalizations, and Emergency Department Use Home visits can reach patients with complex needs before a higher level of care is needed Peer-Reviewed Article March 2017
Intensive Outpatient Care Program Toolkit The staff position of care coordinator is crucial to success. Implementation Tool December 2016
The Business Case for Community Paramedicine: Lessons from Commonwealth Care Alliance’s Pilot Program Cost considerations for the expansion of mobile integrated health care and community paramedicine programs. Case Example December 2016