Strategies for Assessing Health Plan Performance on Chronic Diseases: Selecting Performance Indicators and Applying Health-Based Risk Adjustment

dc.contributor.authorVolpel, Ann
dc.contributor.authorO’Brien, John
dc.contributor.authorWeiner, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-09T12:49:46Z
dc.date.available2019-05-08T14:21:16Z
dc.date.issued2005-03
dc.description.abstractAs Medicaid managed care programs mature, states are looking to refine their methods for measuring and improving the performance of participating health plans. This report serves as a guide for Medicaid agencies who want to develop a performance measurement program using administrative data to evaluate the care provided to enrollees with chronic diseases. The report identifies potential performance indicators that are associated with improved medical outcomes and demonstrates the application of diagnosis-based risk adjustment to performance measurement by profiling six health plans.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFunded by the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. under The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Medicaid Managed Care Programen_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.hilltopinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/Strategies-for-Assessing-Health-Plan-Performance-on-Chronic-Diseases-Selecting-Performance-Indicators-and-Applying-Health-Based-Risk-Adjustment-pdf.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent37 pagesen_US
dc.genrereportsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2z8he-i1d6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/13799
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCenter for Health Care Strategies, Incen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofOther Hilltop Institute (UMBC) Works
dc.rightsThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.
dc.subjectmeasuring health plan performanceen_US
dc.subjectevaluating the care of Medicaid enrollees with chronic diseasesen_US
dc.subjectanalysis of health care administrative dataen_US
dc.titleStrategies for Assessing Health Plan Performance on Chronic Diseases: Selecting Performance Indicators and Applying Health-Based Risk Adjustmenten_US
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