The MCMP demonstration aims to improve quality and coordination of care for chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries and to promote adoption and use of health information technology (HIT) by small-to medium-sized primary care practices. This report looks at implementation experiences, use of...

Congress created the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program, in 2010 to help reduce teen pregnancies and their negative consequences. This report documents key decisions state grantees made about program design. It is the first...

Congress created the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), an initiative to fund evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, in 2010 to help reduce teen pregnancies and their negative consequences. The evaluation will expand the knowledge base on teen pregnancy prevention...

States considering a Cash and Counseling program are likely to be interested in the number and types of eligible beneficiaries it might attract, factors that could deter interested beneficiaries from participating, and possible increases it might create in the total number of beneficiaries...

The Electronic Health Record Demonstration, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is designed to evaluate whether financial incentives can increase the adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) by primary care physician practices. This first evaluation report...

This article presents insights into the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by small physician practices participating in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services pay-for-performance demonstration. Site visits to four states revealed slow movement toward improved EHR use. Factors...

This report presents findings from the first year of implementing Gen.M, a teen pregnancy prevention program. It describes the program's design, facilitators' training in and delivery of the program, youth engagement in and understanding of the material it provides, and lessons learned.