This paper describes gaps in services for low-income people with serious mental illness, as reported by mental health professionals and other observers in 12 communities in the U.S. According to respondents, service gaps have grown in recent years—especially for the...

This white paper examines key components in the medical neighborhood and how the patient-centered medical home is situated within it. It also addresses barriers to a well-functioning neighborhood, the tools available to achieving one, and the strengths and weaknesses of each tool.

Policymakers struggle with how to ensure adequate access to physician services in public programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP. The authors synthesize research on this topic and provide a framework that policymakers can use to identify and measure barriers to access, determining where and why...

Although interest in expanding SCHIP coverage to parents has grown in recent years, few such expansions have actually been implemented. State governments and health plan administrators remain concerned that these expansions will attract only high-risk enrollees, resulting in costly premiums that...

This report examines the role of the primary care medical home in Healthy San Francisco, a health care access program for uninsured adults in the city and county of San Francisco. The program’s medical home requirement—and its associated referral system—appear to have...

Working with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and LA Net, we developed a manual on creating and implementing successful practice implementation programs. This guide provides information on how to start and run a program to work with primary care practices on quality improvement,...