States seeking to integrate Medicare and Medicaid services for dually eligible beneficiaries need to consider a variety of issues in program design and implementation such as incorporating behavioral health and long-term services and supports, consumers and providers engagement, and linking Medicare and Medicaid data. Use the filter below to view resources related to these and other topics.
This evaluation of the second year of the Initiative reports rates of all-cause hospitalizations and potentially avoidable hospitalizations, as well as Medicare expenditures for participating sites relative to a comparison group.
(RTI International)
This report provides preliminary data for the first 18 months of Washington's managed fee-for-service demonstration. It includes a description of the demonstration model, preliminary findings on eligibility and enrollment in the demonstration,… (RTI International)
This brief describes key considerations for developing interdisciplinary care teams and explores how eight states addressed issues such as engaging providers and measurement approaches.
(Center for Health Care Strategies)
This brief examines considerations for rate setting in Medicaid managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) programs and spotlights the experiences of eight statesin establishing MLTSS payment rates.
(Center for Health Care Strategies)
This brief describes approaches that states have used to communicate early integrated care program results. Strategies discussed include developing program indicator dashboards, disseminating beneficiary experience data, and sharing success stories.
(Center for Health Care Strategies)
This presentation features promising practices for information sharing and building relationships between providers, plans, and the state of Minnesota to optimize care management.
(Integrated Care Resource Center)
This tool describes the key areas of information that demonstration enrollment brokers' customer service representatives should master to improve the quality of decision-support services for beneficiaries who are being passively enrolled in a… (Integrated Care Resource Center)
This brief examines the potential of current and planned measures to accurately assess the performance of integrated care programs for dually eligible individuals.
(Center for Health Care Strategies)
This brief identifies opportunities for states and their contracting plans that serve Medicare-Medicaid enrollees to better align Medicare and Medicaid coverage of care management using Medicare's new chronic care management payment.
(Integrated Care Resource Center)