On September 14, 2017, the seven PCMH-Kids practices that are participating in the Postpartum Maternal Depression Screening learning collaborative convened for their second quarterly meeting as part of the pediatric integrated behavioral health project.
On September 8, 2017, CTC-RI and PCMH-Kids hosted its quarterly Breakfast of Champions learning opportunity with a focus on the utilization reports from the All Payer Claims Database (Healthfacts RI) to support data driven change at the practice level. The session also included a demonstration of the portal and sign-on process, break out discussion sessions for the pediatric and adult practice
CTC-RI has selected Data Stat as its qualified vendor for conducting the customer experience survey (CAHPS). CTC-RI, with financial support from the health plans, covers the costs associated with administering the CAHPS survey for practices currently participating in the CTC-RI program.
PCMH Kids practices are eligible to achieve performance incentive payments based on meeting 3 out of 4 permanence measures thresholds: 2 of which can be clinical quality measures , one can be customer experience measure (2 out of 3 measures for access, communication and office as defined below) and 1 utilization measure (ED usage compared with comparison group).
The governor's office announced this summer that Dr. Kathleen Hittner, the state's Health Insurance Commissioner, would etire from her position effective July 2017.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in August that all eight R.I. Community Health Centers earned a combined $1.1 million from Health Quality Improvement FY 2017 grant awards.
The mission of CTC-RI is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in Rhode Island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. CTC-RI brings together critical stakeholders to implement, evaluate and spread effective multi-payer models to deliver, pay for and sustain high-quality, comprehensive, accountable primary care.