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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

CMMI partnered with Maryland's Department of Health to launch MDPCP last year with Medicare as the first participating payer. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures. Measurement-based care in integrated health care: A randomized clinical trial. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268. Measurement-based care as a practice improvement tool: Clinical and organizational applications in youth mental health.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

At that time, I was working on the opposition because my view was it was a false choice for people until they had a full array of services, including palliative care that was really not hospice and palliative care weren’t very well known or available in the early ’90s. Is your brain hurting yet with all these questions?