This report reviews evidence and opportunities for governors to control health care costs and improve outcomes through quality initiatives, coordinated care, primary care and prevention, and payment reforms.

This paper describes a multi-method approach for evaluating 10 small interventions that participated in the Medicaid Value Program, which sought to improve quality of care for Medicaid beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions. The approach relied on quantitative and qualitative methods to...

As states consider options for incorporating disease management programs into Medicaid, they can benefit from Medicare's experience in this area. This four-page issue brief summarizes a study of best practices in care coordination for people with chronic illnesses and suggests key factors for...

This report evaluated Mercy Medical Center North Iowa and Health Quality Partners, two providers in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration, a rigorous multiyear evaluation sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine if care coordination improves quality of...

The IDEATel demonstration tested the effects of providing home-based telemedicine services to a large number of eligible Medicare beneficiaries who had diabetes and lived in medically underserved areas in New York City and upstate New York. This report updates two earlier reports to Congress and...

Disease management programs seek to control health care costs by focusing on two major drivers: high-cost chronic illness and inpatient hospitalizations for acute conditions. The fourth brief in a new series from Mathematica looks at the research evidence on the effectiveness of disease...