Health Homes Model
The Medicaid Health Home program is designed to coordinate healthcare and social services for Medicaid and Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible individuals with chronic conditions, including mental and behavioral health.
A Health Home provides comprehensive coordinated care to Medicaid and Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible enrollees with chronic conditions. The Health Homes model integrates primary, acute, and behavioral health services and links patients and families to non-medical services. Like the PCMH model, Health Homes seek to reduce costs and improve care quality by reducing emergency department use, hospital admissions and re-admissions, and reliance on long-term care facilities.
The key components of the Health Home model are:
- Comprehensive care management
- Care coordination
- Health promotion
- Comprehensive transitional care including follow-up from inpatient and other settings
- Patient and family support
- Referral to community and support services
Health Home models are strongly encouraged by CMS to use health information technology to coordinate care.
More about this model:
Resources to Learn More
Health
Home Information Resource Center
Website
This website provides information and resources for states that are interested in establishing a Health Homes
program.
Organization(s): Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Medicaid Health Homes: Implementation
Update
Document
Explains the health home model's core service and eligibility requirements, and includes a map showing which
states have health home models in operation.
Organization(s): Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Date: 3/2011
Initial
Considerations to Guide the Development of Medicaid Health Homes
Document
This hands-on checklist is designed to walk states through the decision points in designing a health home
program.
Organization(s): Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Date: 6/2011
Medicaid Health Home
Program Design Strategies
Website
This website is an archive of calls for selected states focused on Medicaid health home program design.
Organization(s): Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Medicaid's New “Health
Home” Option
Document
This document gives an overview of Medicaid's Health Home program.
Organization(s): Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 1/2011