U.S. Medicaid Health Home Market: The 2016 OPEN MINDS Update

Medicaid health homes are a population-based integrated care service delivery model for individuals with chronic conditions and serious mental illness (SMI). They are not a physical space, which is a common misconception about the term. The model, as outlined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), provides six key services that integrate physical health care, behavioral health care, and social services at the consumer level by facilitating and coordinating service access across all three service continuums. Created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, the earliest adopter of health home models, Rhode Island . . .