Secretary Walker Sends Report on Progress Toward Implementing Health Care Spending Benchmark to Joint Finance Committee Co-Chairs
The report - a requirement of Section 192 of the budget bill, House Substitute 1 for HB 275 - makes the case for health care spending and quality benchmarks as necessary tools for better understanding and directing health care quality and spending growth in
"Rising healthcare costs are unsustainable for
In the report to the
* Recommend the establishment of state health care spending and quality benchmarks, and that those benchmarks be developed by DHSS in concert with stakeholders and "be used to foster transparency of performance and support progress on payment and delivery system reform."
* Analyze and report on variation in health care delivery and costs, leveraging data within the new Health Care Claims Database and the Delaware Health Information Network to produce a standard set of health care spending reports.
* Implement Medicaid and state employee total cost of care risk-based contracting using alternative payment and delivery models to share risk and accountability with providers.
* Support care transformation and primary care workforce through better integration of behavioral health care integration and adding to population health management and data analytics.
* Focus on improving the underlying social and economic issues affecting health outcomes by working with stakeholders to develop and implement a strategy that builds upon existing work and resources in this area.
"This report is another important step forward for
"The Report to the
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