- ACA Implementation & State Health Reform
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- Providers and Services
- Acute Care
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- Quality, Cost, and Health System Performance
- ACOs
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- Fraud and Abuse
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- Managed Care
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- Specific Populations
- Adolescents
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Designing Maine’s DirigoChoice™ Benefit Plan – Striving to Improve Health at an Affordable Price
Maine’s Dirigo Health Reform Act of 2003 seeks to address health care costs, quality, and access. In order to address access, the Act authorizes the creation of a voluntary market-based health plan to help small businesses, the self-employed, and individuals afford health coverage. This issue brief addresses benefit design of the health plan, DirigoChoice™.December 2004» -
Aging and Disability Resource Centers Toolbox
This toolbox was developed for Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) grantees to list and succinctly explain the Administration on Aging-CMS requirements per each topic, and to provide materials that will support the design, development, and operation of resource centers.October 2003» -
Single Entry Point Systems: State Survey Results
The Rutgers Center for State Health Policy/NASHP Community Living Exchange Collaborative conducted a survey of the 50 states to identify states that operate single entry point (SEP) systems and to identify the characteristics of SEPs. A single entry point is defined as a system that enables consumers to access long term and supportive services through one agency or organization. The survey identified some common elements across SEPs. The results also indicate that there is considerable variation among SEPs in the functions they perform, the populations they serve, and the organizations that function as the SEP.August 2003»
