Medical Care at Home Comes of Age Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base. Brief/Report January 2021
Effects of a Standardized Community Health Worker Intervention on Hospitalization Among Disadvantaged Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Pooled Analysis of Three Clinical Trials Using community health workers can reduce hospitalizations in high-risk patients. Peer-Reviewed Article July 2020
Integrating Health And Human Services In California’s Whole Person Care Medicaid 1115 Waiver Demonstration California’s Whole Person Care pilot can inform cross-sector initiatives to improve care for Medicaid enrollees with complex health and social needs. Peer-Reviewed Article April 2020
What’s Next? The Value of Evidence from the Camden Coalition and CareMore Health to Inform Complex Care Program Design Highlighted lessons from two recent studies to help guide future program and measurement approaches for complex care management interventions. Webinar March 2020
Impact of Complex Care Management on Spending and Utilization for High-Need, High-Cost Medicaid Patients Complex care management program for high-need, high-cost Medicaid patients demonstrates substantially lower spending and inpatient utilization. Peer-Reviewed Article February 2020
Health Care Hotspotting — A Randomized, Controlled Trial Randomized controlled trial of a care management intervention offers important lessons for the field of complex care. Peer-Reviewed Article January 2020
The Common Attributes of Successful Care Manager Programs for High-Need, High-Cost Persons: A Cross-Case Analysis Ten common attributes for successful care management programs serving high-need, high-cost populations. Peer-Reviewed Article October 2019
Outpatient Complex Case Management: Health System-Tailored Risk Stratification Taxonomy to Identify High-Cost, High-Need Patients Maximizing the impact of outpatient complex case management. Peer-Reviewed Article November 2018
Going Beyond Clinical Care to Reduce Health Care Spending A regional approach to health care transformation. Peer-Reviewed Article July 2018
Active Redesign of a Medicaid Care Management Strategy for Greater Return on Investment: Predicting Impactability This resource describes one tool to identify patients most likely to benefit from care management. Peer-Reviewed Article April 2018
Managing Effectively in Complex Chronic Care Markets This resource provides a road map for health plans to improve Medical Loss Ratio. Peer-Reviewed Article February 2018
Integrating Health Care for High-Need Medicaid Beneficiaries With Serious Mental Illness and Chronic Physical Health Conditions at Managed Care, Provider, and Consumer Levels This resource describes the value of navigators for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental illness. Peer-Reviewed Article June 2017
CareMore: Improving Outcomes and Controlling Health Care Spending for High-Needs Patients CareMore’s business model identifies high-risk patients and surrounds them with coordinated services Case Example March 2017
Innovative Home Visit Models Associated with Reductions in Costs, Hospitalizations, and Emergency Department Use Home visits can reach patients with complex needs before a higher level of care is needed Peer-Reviewed Article March 2017
Intensive Outpatient Care Program Toolkit The staff position of care coordinator is crucial to success. Implementation Tool December 2016
The Business Case for Community Paramedicine: Lessons from Commonwealth Care Alliance’s Pilot Program Cost considerations for the expansion of mobile integrated health care and community paramedicine programs. Case Example December 2016
Guided Care: A Structured Approach to Providing Comprehensive Primary Care for Complex Patients Guided Care is designed to strike a balance between telephone-based and interdisciplinary team-based care management programs. Case Example October 2016
Hennepin Health: A Care Delivery Paradigm for New Medicaid Beneficiaries By closing gaps in care, a safety-net ACO has reduced medical costs for Medicaid patients with complex needs. Case Example October 2016
Home-Based Care Program Reduces Disability and Promotes Aging in Place Difficulty with activities of daily living is a major cost driver in health care that is typically overlooked. Peer-Reviewed Article September 2016
Developing Care Management Programs to Serve High-Need, High-Cost Populations Care management programs should include processes for evaluating patient-reported outcomes. Brief/Report February 2016