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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

After discussion with IDPH, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) also established a prenatal and postpartum care HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) measure performance improvement project for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to identify and close a health disparity gap.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.