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Starting last week, the state began rolling out two new benefits under the Medicaid Transformation Demonstration. The Medicaid Alternative Care (MAC) and Tailored Supports for Older Adults (TSOA) programs support people age 55 and older, their families, and their unpaid caregivers.
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All nine Accountable Communities of Health (ACHs) have passed phase 2 certification, a critical achievement in the Medicaid Transformation Demonstration (Demonstration).
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The final Healthier Washington quarterly webinar of 2017 will focus on the work occurring under Healthier Washington to promote shared decision making and patient decision aids health care providers can use.
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The Healthier Washington Practice Transformation Support Hub is partnering with the Washington Council for Behavioral Health and the National Council for Behavioral Health to offer a Value-Based Payment (VBP) Practice Transformation Academy to licensed community behavioral health agencies currently providing outpatient mental health and/or substance use disorder services.
The Academy is free to the agencies chosen to participate, and Phase I will run from October 2017 to January 2018.
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A key opportunity for health care stakeholders will occur on October 19 at the second annual Healthier Washington Symposium in SeaTac. The symposium is part of a two-day event, A Commitment to Value, which will focus on ways we can collectively commit to value-based purchasing, payment, and care delivery, and better understand our respective roles in moving value-based strategies from concept to practice.
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The September data collection period is now open and the Network is seeking new Sentinels to participate. The Washington Health Workforce Sentinel Network collects information from volunteers in the health care industry, and provides rapid turnaround of information about trends affecting employers, educators, training institutions, and other key stakeholders involved in health workforce development and deployment.
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The Practice Transformation Support Hub’s Resource Portal
recently upgraded its Resources page, offering enhanced search
capability and filtering options to make it easier to find material. Read more
about the portal and available resources in their most recent newsletter.
The next Performance Measures Coordinating Committee (PMCC) meeting will be Monday, October 2 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the offices of the Puget Sound Regional Council, 1011 Western Ave, in Seattle. The meeting will be held in the 5th floor conference room.
The public is welcome to attend, either in person or via webinar, however we encourage people to attend by webinar, as the meeting space is limited.
 Care coordination helps patient manage disease
When she was nine years old, Mistelle Huskey experienced a near-fatal diabetic coma.
“The physician who saw me during my coma was diabetic and had a son who had experienced a diabetic coma, so he recognized it for what it was,” Mistelle remembers. At the time, she had a 50/50 chance of surviving.
Not only did she live, she grew up and now has a family of her own.
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