Delivery System Redesign

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.

This report synthesizes the experiences of teams from seven states (Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, and Virginia) that participated in a learning collaborative to advance health equity using select ACA and state policy levers.

According to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), the majority of emergency department (ED) visits by nonelderly Medicaid patients are for symptoms suggesting urgent or more serious medical problems rather than for routine care.This research brief highlights that there are clearly opportunities to develop less-costly care options than emergency departments for both nonelderly Medicaid and privately insured patients.