Executive Briefings | December 21, 2017
The Changing Face Of Medicaid Health Homes—The 2017 Update
I confess: If you told me five or six years ago that health homes would still be going strong at the end of 2017, I would have disagreed with you. I figured states would give the model a try, receive their enhanced federal Medicaid match for providing health home services, and then move on when that extra funding ran out. While that was certainly true for a couple of states (Oregon and Idaho), the reality is that Medicaid health homes have helped spur a shift to a new model of case management that addresses the needs of the "whole person . . .