Study Findings from Pardee RAND Graduate School Provide New Insights into Health and Medicine (Washington’s Medicaid Transformation Project: Engaging the Health Care and Social Service Sectors To Improve Health Care Delivery and Address the …): Health and Medicine

2021 OCT 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health and Medicine. According to news originating from Santa Monica, California, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Across the US, states have initiated reforms to improve population health by coordinating efforts among health care stakeholders and addressing health-related social needs. Washington State’s Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP), launched in 2017, seeks to achieve these goals by supporting the state’s Accountable Communities of Health, independent organizations that convene and coordinate the health care and social service sectors in nine regions of the state.”

Funders for this research include Washington State Health Care Authority, Silver Family Foundation.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Pardee RAND Graduate School, “MTP places Medicaid funds in the hands of ACHs for the purpose of building health system capacity and carrying out health improvement projects. It includes new supports for aging, housing and employment, and substance use disorder treatment. Early lessons from MTP are emerging that can inform health system transformation efforts in other states. MTP demonstrates the advantages of creating new organizations to serve as regional conveners and coordinators. However, the introduction of new entities will require states to clearly articulate the varying roles of these entities and existing managed care organizations and state agencies. States will need to balance the tradeoffs of local control versus centralization. For example, it may be optimal to standardize electronic health information exchanges but allow organizations flexibility to adopt other interventions that match their local context.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In addition, states should build treatment and comparison groups into their program designs in order to generate high-quality evidence about the impact of new health care delivery and payment models.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Washington’s Medicaid Transformation Project: Engaging the Health Care and Social Service Sectors To Improve Health Care Delivery and Address the Social Determinants of Health. Healthcare, 2021;9(3). Healthcare can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Jonah Kushner, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Jordan Byers, Deborah J. Cohen, Shauna Petchel, K. John McConnell, Karen Jensen and Katie Bittinger.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hjdsi.2021.100560. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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