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New Policy Brief - Supporting Alternative Integrated Models for Dual Eligibles: A Legal Analysis of Current and Future Options
Integrating care for dual eligibles offers a significant opportunity to improve care and control rising health care costs, but progress in this area has been slow. A new Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) brief explores alternative strategies to integrate care for this high-need, high-cost population. With support from The Commonwealth Fund, CHCS commissioned Sara Rosenbaum, Jane Hyatt Thorpe, and Sarah Schroth at George Washington University's Department of Health Policy to analyze the current legal and regulatory barriers and uncover alternative strategies for integrating care.
The resulting brief examines potential administrative and/or legislative changes that foster integration while permitting Medicare and Medicaid to share in any savings. The brief outlines promising opportunities to integrate care within three areas: (I) current state plan options and potential approaches to health system improvement; (II) achieving integration through current and potential demonstration and waiver authorities; and (III) options for legislative consideration.
As policymakers look to transform the nation's health care system, there are unprecedented opportunities to support integration for duals. These include alternatives that can be implemented under existing policy, and new approaches that are worth considering at the federal level. This brief provides a comprehensive overview of options for states looking for innovative models to integrate care.
Long-Term Care for Senior Veterans: Planning for Eldercare
The Department of Veterans Affairs provides three types of long term care services for veterans. To read the entire article please click on the title above.
Caregiving Policy Digest - Public Policy and Research - A website of the Family Caregiver Allicance National Center on Caregiving.
FCA operates the National Center on Caregiving, through which we produce legislative analyses, reports, newsletters, and research documenting public policy, emerging trends and caregiver needs and services. Consultation on program development and Best Practices in caregiving services is available to assist in the development of caregiver support services throughout the country.
Understanding of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Health Care System
For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians. This research has helped policymakers, the media, health care analysts and others improve their understanding of our health care system and forms the foundation for many of the ongoing efforts to improve health and health systems across America
