Quality Assurance and Managed Care

Guide to Quality Community Managed Care (PDF: 81.5 / 48 pages)

Developing and Analyzing Performance Measures (PDF: 922kb / 72 pages)

Targeting Population Estimations for Children with Special Health Care Needs (PDF: 248 kb /95 pages)

Developing a Monitoring and Quality Assurance System for Connecticut's Children with Special Health Care Needs Program (PDF: 163k / 22 pages)

Evaluating Managed Care Plans for Children with Special Health Needs: A Purchaser's Tool
This tool is a product of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Continuing Education Institute at Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio and the Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University; Antoinette Parisi Eaton, MD, CSHCN Institute Director.

Managed Care and Children with Special Health Care Needs: Strategies for Monitoring the Quality of Care (PDF: 163k / 45 pages)

Critical Issues in Designing Contracts for Managed Care Organizations Serving Children with Special Health Care Needs (PDF: 195k / 64 pages)

Coordinating Adolescent Health Centers and Managed Care: State Experiences and Lessons Learned (PDF: 163k / 89 pages)

Delivering and Financing Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs Under Managed Care: Design Options for Vermont Officials (PDF: 98k / 26 pages)

Assessing the Risk of Women and Children Enrolled in Managed Care: Design Options for South Carolina Officials (PDF: 65k / 20 pages)

Monitoring the Impact of Managed Care on Mothers and Children in Seattle/King County (PDF: 228k / 66 pages)

A Consolidated Contract between the South Carolina Maternal and Child Health and Medicaid Programs for the Provision of Family Support Services under the Palmetto Health Initiative (PDF: 163k / 43 pages)

 

Child Health Insurance

The Impact of Expanding Children's Health Insurance on the Role of Maternal and Child Health Title V Programs

As a Microsoft Word Document
As an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) Document

 

Archives of DataSpeak Events Related to Managed Care or Monitoring Quality

Risk Adjustment for Children's Services

Developing Effective Performance Measures

Tools for Monitoring the Impact of Health Systems Changes

Measuring MCH: The MCH Model Indicators

 

Methods

Adolescent Health Care: A Comparison of Five Risk Adjustment Systems
Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., Director of Health Services Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Child Health Policy has received $ 300,000 award from the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau to study risk adjustment systems for adolescents. Health-care providers will be able to use the findings of this study to develop better methods to reimburse health plans and physicians who care for adolescents

 

 

 

 

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