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Medical Homes, ACOs Offer Better Business Models
The patient-centered medical home model in Arkansas, which has more than 600 participating providers, helps the state's Medicaid program incentivize quality care instead of paying for volume of services.
The patient-centered medical home model in Arkansas, which has more than 600 participating providers, helps the state's Medicaid program incentivize quality care instead of paying for volume of services.
Arkansas officials designed the PCMH payment structure to support primary care doctors in the state, who often rely on high volumes of acute care, to instead implement team-based strategies, coordinate chronic care delivery and achieve better patient outcomes, according to a Health Affairs blog post.
Since the state has a wide array of practices, ranging from highly efficient primary care doctors to clinics with high rates of avoidable emergency room admissions, officials knew that simply rewarding doctors for reducing their spending would have penalized the efficient practices.
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Laundromats as a New Frontier in Community Health, Medicaid Outreach
May 29th 2025Lindsey Leininger, PhD, and Allister Chang, MPA, highlight the potential of laundromats as accessible, community-based settings to support Medicaid outreach, foster trust, and connect families with essential health and social services.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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