Innovations
What are innovations?
The Fund defines innovations as practical recommendations, strategies, instruments, or models that have been successfully adopted by leaders in the health care field and that can help you put sound policy into practice.
Pennsylvania Uses ROI to Target Disease Management Populations
June 30, 2008 - Pennsylvania's Medicaid agency, the Office of Medical Assistance Programs or OMAP, used the ROI Calculator to examine the impacts of its existing disease management program on specific populations and determine how to enhance future disease management efforts.
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Arizona Uses ROI Calculator for P4P Design
June 30, 2008 - Arizona's Medicaid program, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System or AHCCCS, used the ROI calculator to help design a statewide Medicaid pay-for-performance (P4P) system for its contracted managed care organizations (MCOs).
Cardinal Primary Care Medical Group, Inc.: A Case Study of Patient- and Family-Centered Primary Care Practice
June 26, 2008 - The Cardinal Primary Care Medical Group is one of 12 practice sites featured in Commonwealth Fund case studies of high-performing patient-centered primary care practices.
The North Dakota Experience: Achieving High-Performance Health Care Through Rural Innovation and Cooperation
May 21, 2008 - North Dakota faces health care challenges common to many rural areas of the U.S., but the state's health care system appears to be performing better than that in many other states--rural or urban. A new Fund report shows how North Dakota is getting it done.
Minnesota: Price Competition to Drive Payment Reform
April 28, 2008 - The Minnesota Legislature is currently engaged in a dramatic health care reform debate. Legislation based on the work of a pair of study panels passed the state Senate and House of Representatives and was handed to a conference committee for fine-tuning.
Innovation By State
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