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The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has announced
the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP), inviting health care delivery
systems to join the next generation of the Integrated Health Partnerships (IHP)
program.
Over the past five years DHS has contracted with innovative
health care delivery systems to provide high-quality, efficient care to Minnesota’s
Medicaid population. Under this program participating providers enter into an
arrangement with DHS, by which they are held accountable for the costs and
quality of care their Medicaid patients receive. Providers showing an overall
savings across their population, while maintaining or improving the quality of
care, receive a portion of the savings. Providers who cost more over time may
be required to pay back a portion of the losses.
Beginning in 2018, DHS will be expanding and enhancing this
model in several important ways. DHS will introduce multiple tracks to
accommodate a diverse set of provider systems, add a quarterly population-based
payment to support care coordination and infrastructure needs and modify the
quality measurements methodology.
DHS encourages current IHP participants, health care homes,
and other innovative provider systems to apply.
Interested applicants may find the 2017 Integrated Health
Partnerships (IHP) Request for Proposals (RFP) through the program’s webpage [http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/DHS-293927]
or through DHS’s Grants and RFPs website [https://mn.gov/dhs/partners-and-providers/grants-rfps/].
- Letters of intent to apply must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. CT on Friday, August 18, 2017.
- Applications must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. CT on Friday, September 1, 2017.
Informational webinars
will be scheduled throughout the open response period prior to the application
due date. The dates of these webinars will be announced 10 days prior to their
delivery through the DHS IHP listserv and on the IHP website.
DHS will also be releasing
periodic updates on the RFP as necessary. Communication will occur through the
DHS IHP email list and on the IHP website.
For further information, please contact Mathew Spaan at mathew.spaan@state.mn.us.
About the Integrated Health Partnerships Initiative
The Integrated Health Partnerships (IHP) program,
Minnesota’s groundbreaking approach to delivering quality health care more
efficiently for low-income people, continues to grow across the state, now
encompassing 21 provider groups and more than 460,000 enrollees in the state’s
public programs.
The IHP demonstration prioritizes the delivery of higher
quality and lower cost health care, encouraging providers to focus on delivering
efficient and effective health care and preventive services to reach mutually
agreed-upon health goals. In contrast, the traditional payment system pays
providers for the volume of care they deliver, rather than the quality of care
they provide. Additional background on the current IHP program can be located
at DHS’s Integrated Health
Partnerships (IHP) Overview webpage.
The IHP initiative is a key component of a $45 million
federal State Innovation Model (SIM) grant, which is helping to drive health
care reform in Minnesota. Several IHP participants have also received SIM
grants for their innovative efforts to improve health care.
DHS is seeking to contract with a technical services vendor to implement and host an electronic event notification service that will enable providers serving Medical Assistance and Minnesota Care enrollees to receive more timely information about facility admission, discharges, or transfers.
- The objective is to support care coordination for clinical care team members so they can better manage care transitions and securely communicate clinical information with other authorized providers.
- The vendor would complement existing e-health connections that providers have already established but accelerate further exchange by connecting providers who are not already able to send or receive these automated notifications.
- The contract is focused initially on exchange of HL7 ADT ('admission', 'discharge', 'transfer') messages and will be phased to start with connecting partners and providers in the Integrated Health Partnerships program, but is expected to include additional providers, especially long-term services and support providers in the near future.
Interested vendors must apply through Minnesota's Department of Administration's procurement system, SWIFT. Responses are due June 19th. A Responders Conference is planned for June 2nd at 1:00.
This project is part of a $45 million State Innovation Model (SIM) cooperative agreement, awarded to the Minnesota Departments of Health and Human Services in 2013 by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to help implement the Minnesota Accountable Health Model.
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