Alabama Medicaid Launches Coordinated Health Network

On October 1, 2019, the Alabama Medicaid Agency implemented the Alabama Coordinated Health Network (ACHN) to replace its Medicaid health home program and three other care coordination programs. The ACHN is a single care coordination delivery system intended to link consumers, primary care physician (PCP) groups, and community resources in each of seven newly-defined regions. In this new program, the regional networks and PCP groups are incentivized to achieve quality goals in the areas of childhood obesity, infant mortality rates, and addiction disorders. The ACHN does not change Medicaid benefits, and delivery of medical services is not the program . . .