Promising Practices in Home and Community-Based Services: Lessons Learned from Using a Health Information Technology Program that Combines Claims- Level Data with Service-Level Data
August 26, 2009 This article, by Edward Kako, Ph.D., Acumen, LLC, describes that successful outcomes can be scarce for treatment of mental health from substance use, making treatment quality improvement difficult. One option is to combine Medicaid claims with service-level data to improve quality and cost-effectiveness in community mental health centers. Three states have used this method that allowed providers, state agencies, and organizations to upgrade efficiency of care and begin to change the organization as a whole because of high success rates. Download the Report . . .
