A project of the George Washington University's Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Care Coordination/Care Management
Care coordination facilitates the appropriate delivery of health care services by integrating care activities across multiple providers who are dependent upon each other to carry out disparate activities in a single patient’s care. Every participant requires adequate knowledge about his/her own and others’ roles, as well as about available resources, and must rely on the exchange of information to acquire this knowledge. Care coordination involves entities such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Medical/Health Homes; communication and sharing of information between and among providers; treatment, discharge, and transfer planning; and disease management.
The Health System Measurement Project is an online tool developed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The purpose of the website is to pull together health data from various sources in order to highlight trends within the United States' health care system.
This report examines the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's requirement for each state to establish a health insurance exchange, with a specific focus on the state of California. The paper looks at applicable federal and state laws, and makes recommendations for the establishment of a health insurance exchange in California.
Publication: Health Affairs/Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Brief Series
This brief describes the nature of performance measurement and examines whether public reporting of performance data improves the quality of health care and lowers costs.
This report looks at the readiness of health care providers to meet electronic health record adoption incentives established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It also looks at progress in the adoption of health information technology (HIT), and the importance of HIT in health reform efforts, such as patient centered medical home models and accountable care organizations.
This report, put out by the U.S. GAO, examines the various legal and health care factors that make it difficult for consumers to obtain price information for health care services they receive. The report also examined the effectiveness of a number of public and private price transparency initiatives, and concluded that these initiatives vary greatly in the information provided.
This analysis describes the major provisions of the Electronic Health Record incentive programs, as clarified by the final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 13, 2010. This piece explains the definition of meaningful use, as used in Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and what this means for the Aligning Forces for Quality communities.
This Legal Notes examines the final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the Electronic Health Record meaningful use, Stage 1 incentive program. It looks at the implications the rule has for the Medicaid program specifically, and challenges the rule may impose on states and Medicaid providers.
This Legal Notes examines the various provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that are aimed at improving health disparities based on race and ethnicity. The ACA contains a number of provisions that emphasize the quality of health care delivered, increasing the minority health care workforce population, and data collection and reporting on race, ethnicity, sex and primary language.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided billions of dollars in new health and health care spending and made comprehensive reforms in health law and policy. This brief summarizes key elements in the Act, including comparative effectiveness research coordination, modifications to the health care tax credit and investments in community health centers and the primary health care workforce. The associated chart provides a side-by-side comparison of the major HIT, public health, Medicaid, and COBRA provisions in the House legislation, Senate legislation, and final conference agreement.
This article provides a brief overview of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule implementing the Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations, as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The article includes a definition of an Accountable Care Organization, eligibility criteria, and the basic structure of the shared savings program.
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