Describes the design of an evaluation to study key outcomes for people with disabilities who participate in innovative state projects that promote employment, particularly those who receive Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance. The strategies involve different...

This report presents preliminary findings on the effect of service interventions that can be synthesized from the state projects’ evaluations, which are the first component of the national evaluation to be completed. The findings reflect the likely effects of the state projects based on...

Describes the characteristics of the roughly 10,000 participants who enrolled in the 18 SPI projects from January 1999 through March 2003. Participants faced significant barriers to employment, including severe disabilities and limited education and employment experience. Two-thirds were...

This report, focusing on employment and earnings, describes how nonexperimental comparison groups were selected for each of the 11 state projects that targeted adult beneficiaries, the validity of the comparison groups, and short-term project effects on employment and earnings in 3 state...

Describes the employment services used by participants in 12 of the state projects. The most common service delivered was benefits counseling, which helps participants understand the effect of employment on an individual’s cash benefits, health care coverage, and eligibility for multiple...

This paper examines how the HITECH Act could be harnessed to help practices implement technology and support key principles of the PCMH.

In October 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in a unique collaboration between public and private health care payers, launched the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative to improve primary care delivery in seven...

This white paper shares lessons learned about how primary care practices can effectively use health information technology (IT) to support quality improvement (QI). The lessons are drawn from discussions with experts in fields such as health IT, clinical practice, primary care transformation,...

Primary care can be considered the cornerstone of effective and efficient health care that meets the needs of patients, families, and communities. New resources authored by Mathematica’s health experts offer strategies to help build and sustain practices’ ability to continuously...

Primary care can be considered the cornerstone of effective and efficient health care that meets the needs of patients, families, and communities. New resources authored by Mathematica’s health experts offer strategies to help build and sustain practices’ ability to continuously...