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Addressing Polypharmacy in Dually Eligible Individuals with I/DD: A Spotlight on Partners Health Plan
Click Here to Access the Spotlight Sixty-five percent of individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid have two or more chronic conditions,1 and dually eligible individuals with disability in particular experience high rates of multiple chronic health conditions.2 In addition,
[...]Published Date: August 15, 2022 -
RIC Event: Strategies for Improving Care Coordination for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Webinar
Video Recording: https://youtu.be/HmF0t2Tui9U Podcast: This webinar is also available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. Description: Approximately 10% of individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid under the age of 65 have an intellectual disability or related condition.1 In general, Americans
[...]Published Date: July 12, 2022 -
Building a Dementia-Friendly Care Model: Spotlight on HealthPartners
Individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid are almost three times as likely to have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) than people eligible for Medicare only,1 and twenty-three percent of all dually eligible individuals age 65 and over are
[...]Published Date: February 18, 2022 -
Engaging Members in Plan Governance – Resources from the 2020 ICCoP
Health plans derive significant value from engaging members in designing, participating in, and assessing their care systems.1 This work with members and their caregivers helps health plans understand and address member concerns and barriers to high-quality, coordinated care. One of
[...]Published Date: January 27, 2021 -
Encouraging Member Participation in Governance: Spotlight on Innovative Stipends and Incentives
Engaging members and their caregivers in plan governance – through strategies such as member advisory councils and board representation – helps health plans understand and address member concerns and barriers to high-quality, coordinated care. Many health plans serving individuals dually
[...]Published Date: December 16, 2020 -
Supporting Persons with Co-Occurring I/DD and Behavioral Health Needs: Spotlight on Partners Health Plan New York
This Spotlight describes how Partners Health Plan (PHP), New York’s first and only Medicare-Medicaid plan that exclusively serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), implements a person-centered and integrated approach to care planning and service delivery that begins with a
[...]Published Date: January 23, 2020 -
Spotlight on the Wisconsin STAR Method: Care Wisconsin’s Approach to Person-Centered Assessment and Care Management for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries
This Spotlight describes a person-centered care management approach called the Wisconsin STAR Method, a simple process that supports care team members in visually mapping out the numerous interacting factors (e.g., physical, social, environmental) that often arise when caring for individuals
[...]Published Date: January 23, 2020 -
Spotlight on CareSource: Identifying Successful Member Engagement Strategies through Rapid-Cycle Improvement
In order for health plans to conduct health risk assessments, effectively communicate plan benefits, and connect members to the health care, social services, and other resources that they need, health plans must first be able to locate and engage members.
[...]Published Date: January 23, 2020 -
Community Health Workers
In recent years, health plans and providers seeking to provide culturally competent care and services to individuals from diverse backgrounds have incorporated community health workers (CHWs) in interdisciplinary care teams.1 CHWs – also known as promotoras de salud, community health
[...]Published Date: November 1, 2019 -
Integrated Care in Action Podcast: Strategies for Effective Peer Supervision
The first episode in our podcast series explores how The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc. (The Council) restructured their peer supervision program by centering their supervision model on strength-based principles to better address the needs of their peer staff and
[...]Published Date: June 24, 2019