Medicaid MCOs gather to find best practices for birth outcomes
Finding the gold standard for caring for mothers and babies in Medicaid managed care programs is the ambitious goal of seven health care officials when they sit down together this month.
Under the auspices of the Center for Health Care Strategies in Prince ton, NJ, chief medical officers from six health maintenance organizations and one primary care case management program will kick off a nine-month search for the best clinical and administrative practices to improve birth outcomes among their enrollees. Participants have agreed to test pilot, in part or in whole, the practices they develop as part of the process and will serve as faculty to other managed care organizations interested in learning about their recommendations.
"We would hope that as many as 30 more health plans in Medicaid will be interested in participating in training," says Karen Brodsky, vice president for programs at the center.
The Best Clinical and Adminis tra tive Practices program will analyze 10 health care conditions over the next five years.
The final product will be a tool kit with one or more recommended models, probably similar in structure to a recent center report on caring for children with blood lead poisoning (see story, p. 1). Pediatric asthma, medical informatics, and blood lead poisoning are among the topics being considered by the program’s steering committee, Ms. Brodsky says.
The program is funded by a $3.8 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Contact the Center for Health Care Strategies at (609) 279-0700.
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