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Why Health Plans Are Vital to Health Equity

HIT Consultant

They possess the resources to disseminate this information to providers for broader discussions around population health. Health plans also have a vested interest in strengthening care navigation and coordination for at-risk members, given the opportunities to improve quality of care and life while reducing care costs.

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

NASHP

From 2015 to 2018, Colorado Medicaid operated the enhanced primary care medical provider (PCMP-E) program, which rewarded those PCCM providers (referred to in Colorado as PCMPs) that met at least five of nine enhanced factors with a $0.50 PMPM increase in their regular PMPM rates. Colorado assigns almost all Medicaid participants to a RAE.

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About This Resource Guide: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities

NASHP

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Disparities : Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Rhode Island Department of Health, 2021. Source: Cara James et al.,