Delivery System Redesign

In this brief, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), reviewed the definition, process, and rationale for shared decision making (SDM), and the state roles in promoting SDM. The report highlights state legislative, regulatory, and other approaches in Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington as well as the implementation challenges, policy options states have pursued, and lessons from their experience using SDM.

This report reviews Minnesota's Statewide Health Improvement Program's (SHIP) first two years that ended June 30, 2011.

Oregon Governor,  John Kitzhaber, signed into law a bill (S.B. 1580)  implementing coordinated care organizations (CCOs) that are intended to oversee the integration of physical, dental, and mental health services for more than 600,000 Medicaid members.

Minnesota's Health Care Reform Task Force Workforce Work Group is seeking input about potential strategies for addressing workforce issues in health care sectors, including primary care, dental health, long-term care, mental health and substance abuse.

This United Hospital Fund report examines the implementation of New York's Medicaid redesign, which will require participation in care management for beneficiaries receiving behavioral health services.

This fact sheet, produced by the National Academy for State Health Policy, provides an overview of six state projects that help providers deliver high-powered primary care.

This Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III Innovation brief focuses on the web-based referral and tracking system ("web portal") that Oklahoma has built into its pre-existing Preventive Services Reminder System.

In this NIHCM Expert Voice brief, Dr. Sinaiko explains the latest developments and research and offers her thoughts on the ways tiered provider networks may evolve in the future as a way to contain rising health care costs.

Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, has called on health care providers to submit innovative coordinated care proposals that feature preventative medicine, new technologies, community outreach, and enhanced follow up treatment to improve the Illinois Medicaid program andpatient outcomes.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has denied most of Utah's Section1115 Medicaid waiver request while indicating it supports the state's plan to convert its Medicaid contracts in the state to an accountable care organization (ACO) model.