Population Health Strategies Benefit Kids on Medicaid

Managed Healthcare Executive January 3, 2020
MHE Staff

In the largest-ever study to measure the impact of population health strategies and tools on hospital outcomes among Medicaid-enrolled children, researchers at a children’s hospital in Southeastern Pennsylvania found targeted interventions can deliver better patient experience, improved health outcomes, and value to the Medicaid system.

In the study, published in JAMA Network Open, of a population health management program, targeted at 93,000 Medicaid-enrolled children seen at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), researchers found that targeted interventions for children with chronic medical health issues who were at higher risk for sustained hospitalizations over time reduced in aggregate about 50 admissions monthly and 3,600 bed days annually.

The CHOP intervention, implemented over two years, sought to identify high-risk, Medicaid-enrolled children with special...

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