CTC-RI hosted a quarterly meeting with PCMH Kids practices and key stakeholders on June 6th. Dr. Flanagan reviewed practice incentive results. 15 out of 20 PCMH Kids practices met 3 out of 4 quality measure thresholds and are eligible for incentive payments from the health plans. 100% of PCMH Kids practices met Developmental Screening targets. In addition, Dr.
On May 30th, the American Academy of Pediatrics RI Chapter hosted the final meeting for the PCMH Kids Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Learning Collaborative at the Warren Alpert Medical School. This learning collaborative would not have been possible without the support and funding from Tufts Health Plan and the AAP Healthy Children Grant. Drs.
The CTC-RI Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has approved 9 pediatric primary care practice sites to participate in the Pediatric IBH primary care program. This IBH expansion, funded by Rhode Island Foundation, Tufts Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare, serves ~40,000 kids and an average Medicaid population of 52% with some sites as high as 80-90% Medicaid.
Practice Reporting and Transformation Updates
The June CTC Clinical Strategy Committee meeting included these most recent presentations: Stephen Kogut, PhD MBA RPh and Emily Patry, MS on “Empowering the Safe, Effective and Efficient (S-E-E) Use of Medication in Older Adults”; Dr.
Presentation at International Conference of Practice Facilitators at Baltimore, MD, June 26-27 “Expanding the reach of practice facilitation: Lessons learned from inter-organizational collaboration” , Suzanne Herzberg PhD, Megan Fallon, MS, RD, Susanne Campbell RN MS PCMH
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.