Delivery System Redesign

Half of state Medicaid programs are taking new approaches to provider payment to help primary care practices become patient-centered medical homes for their low-income patients. This article focuses on trends in Medicaid patient-centered medical home payment that can inform public and private payment strategies more broadly.

Leading-edge states across the country are exploring the potential of accountable care organizations (ACOs) to drive improvements in quality, delivery, and cost-effectiveness for Medicaid populations. This brief outlines 10 core considerations to help guide the development and implementation of Medicaid ACO approaches.

This briefing describes the discussion of state and national leaders at an April 2012 meeting on the alignment of HIT and health care transformation activities at the state, local and national levels, including a description of the challenges leaders identified, successful strategies that leading states are currently using to address these challenges, and the leaders’ recommendations for next steps.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded paper, authored by the Urban Institute, debates the benefits and drawbacks of bundled payments and global capitation.

This Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) background paper provides a basic overview of the drivers of health care cost growth, and serves as an analytical starting point for BPC's work on health care cost containment.