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The final Minnesota
Accountable Health Model task force meeting was held as a joint meeting of both the Community
Advisory and Multi-Payer Alignment task forces on Wednesday, April 19 from 9
a.m. to noon at the Amherst H. Wilder Center, 451 Lexington Parkway N., St.
Paul, MN 55104. All previous task force members and sub-group members were
invited to attend and were recognized for their contributions to the Minnesota
Accountable Health Model.
Please join us at the e-Health Summit. Dr. Karen DeSalvo,
former Acting Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS), will Keynote the 13th Annual Minnesota e-Health
Summit: Connectivity. Equity. Health.
The deadline to register is June 7!
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 MinnesotaCare 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
19. A Responders Conference is planned for June 2 at 1:00 p.m.
Conference
information
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.
Thank you to grantees and partners for participating
in SIM evaluation efforts.
As part of our
SIM project, SHADAC at the University of Minnesota was hired to conduct the
state evaluation and recently conducted two surveys—the SIM Minnesota
Organization Survey and the ACH Provider Survey. The surveys went out to over
400 individuals statewide. Thanks to those of you who have participated. Your
responses are greatly appreciated. In May, SHADAC distributed a third survey –
the Health Information Exchange (HIE) User Survey—to individuals involved in a
small subset of e-Health collaboratives. We are excited to share some of these
findings, which will be disseminated in the final evaluation report available
in late 2017.
Summary of Emerging Profession Grants Round 3
SHADAC summarized
Round 3 Emerging Profession grants, the activities factors identified as facilitators or
barriers to progress, and insights from the grantees. These grants were designed to improve clients'
access to services through hiring dental therapists/advanced dental therapists,
community health workers, and community paramedics. The grants providing up to
$30,000 and other resources to five grantees across the state were used to hire
and integrate these new staff to provide services, including: better
coordinated care, preventive medical services, and information on accessing
community services.
Using the
Continuum of Accountability (CoA) matrix, grantees reported that the greatest
positive change from pre to post grant were in implementing principles of
patient and family centered care and in communication on care transitions.
Facilitators across grantees were hiring from within the organization and
developing strong communication between partners. Challenges experienced
included professional skepticism, which called for training other members of
the staff, as well as developing new clinic work-flow, scheduling, and billing
procedures to adjust for the new hires.
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