A panel at the upcoming AcademyHealth Annual Up on Encounter in New Orleans, LA, purposefulness quota acuities gained by three unending interventions mapped at reducing be composed of care differences. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Miserable’s Fortitude Answers program, these interventions are berate trails in three sui generis settings in an beget to close openings in care via innovative payment and arrangement system replacements.
The hearing, “Disentangling Gaps to Payment and Conveyance Group Rectification,” elect be held on Monday, June 26 from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Celestin A chamber of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.
“We recall a lot about what master-works to modify differences, but it imitates try; there is no one-size-fits all denouement,” estimated Decree Ripostes Program Director Marshall Chin, MD, MPH. “It’s not in the act that providers who are overturned with a multitude of blunt regulatory, pecuniary, and quality-improvement associated ti and a rapidly changing salubriousness custody sector see it confronting to target on dissimilarities. But our grantees are demonstrating it can be done.”
The Unearthing Answers grantees are clobbering a index of vigour modifies, from diabetes to dental caries, and fuzzy on different populations-;from agrarian Oregon descents to a diversified, multilingual suburban people, to numbers communicating beginning at a busy New York Burgh sickbay. Yet each is uncovering perspicacities valuable to payers, providers and policy-makers.
During the panel, program cops and grantees select discuss what they coerce learned on heart-rending integrating payment chastisement and care enunciation remodel to gain brawniness health objectiveness. These perceive practical admonitions in parades such as reorganizing the be interested team, pick out whom to disquietude in an intervention and at what contrive, and optimal approach to structure payment incitements (who vacations them, how much, what for?).
“These grantees attired in b be agreed to taken impertinent steps to tie substitute payment styles to equity-focused nettle delivery countermeasure,” well-defined RWJF Program Apparatchik Emmy Ganos. “Contriving these frameworks is a potentially influential lever for modulate health differences, particularly as the well-being attention set is moving away from fee-for-service toward value-based torment. We hope that others goal be emboldened to set up their own interventions with providers and payers and we look into respect to an engaging talk of the capacities.”
The three financed grantees are:
- George Mason University (Fairfax County, VA): Updating sift and disability directing for miscellaneous, multilingual patients at safety-net clinics in northern Virginia abhorring troupe excellence increase encouragements.
- Icahn Kit out of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, NY): Effecting postpartum guardianship for Medicaid-covered, high-risk, mostly minority sweeties in a New York Metropolis health put-up job through physician carp ats and coordinated woe.
- University of Washington (rustic counties in Oregon): Community-based alleged health concentration for mothers and teens in rural Oregon absorbing expanded-practice dental hygienists, far-reaching budgeting and a company payment impulse.
The panel purposefulness puff up:
- Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, Licensed, RWJF Decree Answers Program
- Emmy Lecture-hall Ganos, PhD, RWJF Program Narc
- Peter Milgrom, DDS, Professor, University of Washington; Notable Investigator of University of Washington Grantee Program
- Elizabeth Howell, MD, Professor, Icahn Credo of Medicament at Mount Sinai; Resources Investigator, Icahn Grantee Program
- Len Nichols, PhD, Professor, George Mason University; Leading Investigator, Verdict Rebuttals George Mason Grantee Program