In 2014, the Foundation partnered with the city of Boston to conduct a thorough analysis of the scope of Boston’s substance use addiction problem and selected DMA Health Strategies to conduct the research. By the way, the Foundation also assembled a Addiction Recovery Advisory Group comprised of addiction experts and community stakeholders to work closely with the researchers, with the Mayor’s Office. CSPECH is an innovative program through which MassHealth reimburses ‘communitybased’ support services provided to chronically homeless individuals residing in permanent supportive housing. Now this report presents the results of a study analyzing the impact of the Community Support Program for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness on the utilization and cost of health care services. So this report is on the basis of a survey of 1982 mental health providers in Massachusetts including psychiatrists, psychiatric clinical nurse specialists, psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists. Although, assesses child and family mental health service delivery capacity; identifies variation in capacity, including variation by geography, linguistic ability, and cultural competence; and documents challenges to meeting current demand for services, It estimates the need for childrens mental health services. So this report by Colleen Barry of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health explores opportunities and problems around integrating behavioral health care and primary care under the Affordable Care Act and payment and delivery system reforms in Massachusetts.
Basically the report provides preliminary recommendations on how these major policy changes with that said, this issue brief explores the implications and potential effects of the case and the resulting remedy on the MassHealth program, other state programs, the behavioral health and social service delivery systems, and affected children and their families. Therefore, translating this evidence into actionable recommendations for policy makers and others had been challenging, while research indicates that greater attention to these ‘nonmedical’ factors may improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs.
Social determinants of health, that encompass social, behavioral and environmental influences on one’s health, have taken center stage in recent health policy discussions.
October 1, 2014 marked the first year anniversary of the demonstration, that is slated to run through December 31.
So this report, by Manatt Health Solutions, includes a series of recommendations that emerged through interviews with consumer advocates, providers, insurers, business leaders, public officials, and policy experts as priorities for the next governor. One Care is Massachusetts’ demonstration project for adults with disabilities between the ages of 21 and 64 who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Oftentimes responsible for the health care coverage of nearly two million residents and $ 13 dot 7 billion in related expenditures, the future of MassHealth matters to all of us. So this report includes findings from the evaluation of the 2015 Fostering Effective Integration grant program. Whenever integrating treatment for mental health and substance use disorders with primary care had been the subject of extensive research testing heaps of different integration models and specific interventions, in recent years. Notice, the true test of value is in real world settings where So there’re competing demands on scarce resources, strict fidelity to intervention protocols is difficult, and patients have multiple urgent needs, while most of these approaches have shown promise in demonstrations or clinical trials.