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

NASHP

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Fifth Free Tool in Kidney Toolkit Helps Fight Kidney Disease

NCQA

Adding the Population Health Roadmap for Chronic Kidney Disease to our Kidney Health Toolkit means there’s a fifth free resource from NCQA to help manage chronic kidney disease (CKD) or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Slowing or preventing disease progression is possible if the disease is treated early.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. Inaccessible and incomplete patient data creates insurmountable challenges to coordination, financial-risk arrangements, and effective preventative care. It empowers users to take a giant leap towards continuous, integrated care.

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

ACO Accountable Care Organizations. CBCM Community Based Care Management Program. CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CHW Community Health Worker. CHA/P Community Health Aid/ Practitioner. NIH National Institutes of Health. PCCM Primary Care Case Management.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

Figure 1 displays a consolidated overview of the “Framework for Public Health-Health Care System Collaboration.” A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. Inaccessible and incomplete patient data creates insurmountable challenges to coordination, financial-risk arrangements, and effective preventative care. It empowers users to take a giant leap towards continuous, integrated care.

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COVID-19 Lessons: A Path to a Better Health Care System

Accountable Care Doctors

Such programs include: Nascent hospital-at-home programs, in which a patient’s care is managed at home instead of in the hospital. Home monitoring systems, often developed as part of population health efforts to manage patients who are at risk or who have chronic illnesses. Today, health care is a team sport.