Jennifer Babcock of the Association of Community Affiliated Plans discusses state efforts to promote sustainable financing for Medicaid health plans to address health-related social needs and how these efforts can result in better outcomes for people with complex care needs.
Describes how provider organizations in Rhode Island employ multidisciplinary teams, including community health workers and behavioral health clinicians, to collaborate with primary care practices in providing whole-person care.
The Playbook spoke to two individuals who helped develop the Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda to learn more about how involving people with lived experience in research can help strengthen the complex care evidence base.
Reviews findings from a Playbook Collection on innovative addiction care models, including emerging evidence for these approaches and considerations for implementation.
Learn about program design considerations for an intensive care management program with promising evidence in this conversation with program leaders at Mass General Brigham and Commonwealth Care Alliance.
Features a conversation with Danetta Sloan, PhD, MSW, MA, assistant scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to learn about the MIND at Home program and how dementia care coordination programs can better support Black caregivers and their families.
Features a conversation with Emilia De Marchis, MD, MAS, assistant professor at UCSF’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, who explores the findings from a report on the state of social needs screening in health care settings.
Features a conversation about Illumination Foundation's approach to data analytics and how it can inform other organizations seeking to improve care for people experiencing homelessness.
Profiles Support and Services at Home, a model that is empowering older adults and people with disabilities to remain at home via in-home supports and services.
Profiles Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, a health center in Washington State, that launched a medical respite care program in 2010 after a focus group of patients experiencing homelessness expressed the need for a place to stay when they were sick.
Features a conversation with representatives of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy about Medicare and Medicaid policy options for expanding access to home-based care for people with complex health needs.
Outlines perspectives from state Medicaid officials on the federal policies that have advanced Medicare-Medicaid integration, and areas where they believe additional federal policy actions are needed.