Delivery System Redesign

This NASHP report identifies states and FQHCs that are collaborating to build community networks to make medical home services available for vulnerable populations.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has created a directory that provides access to publicly available, free reports with information about the process of delivering care, actual outcome for patients, what patients said in surveys about their experience with physicians or hospitals, and/or cost.

National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Data Brief on U.S. health care.

The Center for Health Care Strategies' has a new intiative, Using the Medicaid Rate Increase as a Lever for Primary Care Delivery and Payment Reform.

This issue brief outlines a framework for tracking delivery system change at the community level and details the data elements needed to ensure a unified picture of delivery system change.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced ACA funding up to $500  million to help health providers improve care.

Free tool links patient portals and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to consumer health information.

A longitudinal study of heath care consumers that aims to  provide a comprehensive view of health care consumerism that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of what health and health care are commonly thought to encompass.

This study examined how publicly traded health plans differ from non–publicly traded ones in terms of administrative expenses, quality of care, and financial stability.

This report by Massachusetts Division of Health Care Policy and Finance, documents the major trends in total health care spending for care covered by fully insured and self-insured comprehensive private health plans in Massachusetts from 2007 to 2009, as well as trends in Medicare and MassHealth (the Commonwealth’s Medicaid program) spending from 2007 to 2008.