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
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
How ACOs Are Caring for People with Complex Needs An analysis of the National Survey of ACOs Brief/Report December 2018
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
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
Disruptive Models in Primary Care: Caring for High-Needs, High-Cost Populations Promising approaches to managing care illustrated through a clinical vignette. Case Example April 2017
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
Community Care Teams: An Overview of State Approaches The composition of teams varies depending on state staffing requirements and community resources. Brief/Report March 2016
Effect of a Community-Based Nursing Intervention on Mortality in Chronically Ill Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial Indicates that a community-based nurse care management model reduced all-cause mortality for older adults with chronic conditions. Peer-Reviewed Article July 2012