Patients with complex health needs require both medical and social services and support from multiple providers and caregivers, and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) offers a promising model for providing them comprehensive, coordinated care. Smaller practices, however, face challenges in...

Three case studies of exemplar Primary Care Practice Facilitation training programs provide an overview of each program’s design and content, training approaches, format, administrative structure, funding, staffing and curriculum. The case studies were developed by Mathematica under a...

In July 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) awarded cooperative agreements to a select group of programs proposing innovative ways to improve the quality and lower the cost of care for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees....

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 comparative effectiveness research (CER) investments aimed to develop fundamental building blocks to transform health care in the United States by strategically aligning national CER efforts and priorities. The overarching goals of these investments...

This brief, developed by staff at Mathematica and the Kaiser Family Foundation, looks at efforts by a number of states to set up accountable care organizations (ACOs) within their Medicaid programs. The analysis reveals that many initiatives are in a very early stage of development. Medicaid's...