Evaluation Of The State Of Minnesota’s Health Care Home Initiative

In January, 2014, the Minnesota Department of Health published a report evaluating implementation and operation of health care homes in Minnesota from 2010-2012. This report is the first of two legislatively mandated reports evaluating the Health Care Home initiative. It provides a preliminary evaluation of the Health Care Home (HCH) initiative. It includes a description of demographic trends, including HCH enrollee and provider demographics; the quality of care provided by HCHs and eligible non-HCH clinics; health care home payment arrangements and interactions with payment policies; racial disparities in the use of care between both HCH and eligible non . . .