Promoting Access in Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care: Behavioral Health Provider Network Adequacy Toolkit

A toolkit developed by Mathematica to assist state Medicaid agencies and managed care plans to meet the network adequacy requirements for behavioral health care providers.

Strategies Rural Communities Use to Address Substance Misuse among Families in the Child Welfare System (Summary)

This summary highlights how nine programs have addressed challenges to serving child welfare-involved parents with substance use disorders (SUDs), with a particular focus on their applicability to rural communities.

Strategies for Rural Communities for Addressing Substance Misuse among Families Involved with the Child Welfare System

This brief describes nine programs and highlights ways they have addressed challenges to serving child welfare-involved parents with substance use issues, with a particular focus on their applicability to rural communities.

Transforming Coalition Leadership: An Evaluation of a Collaborative Leadership Training Program

This article discusses the program, whether and how it improved participants’ individual and coalition leadership skills, and the implications for foundations and other entities seeking to increase interdependent leadership capacity within community coalitions.

Integrating Health Care for High-Need Medicaid Beneficiaries with Serious Mental Illness and Chronic Physical Health Conditions at Managed Care, Provider, and Consumer Levels

The authors describe the early efforts of the HealthChoices HealthConnections pilot program for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness and co-occurring chronic conditions, which used a navigator model in 3 southeastern Pennsylvania counties.

Implementation of a Reverse Colocation Model: Lessons from Two Community Behavioral Health Agencies in Rural Pennsylvania

This qualitative study examined the implementation of a reverse colocation pilot program that sought to integrate medical care in two community behavioral health agencies.

Integrating Care for Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries with Serious Mental Illnesses (In Focus Brief)

Mathematica's mixed methods evaluation suggests that states can promote integration across separate financing and delivery systems and improve quality of care.

Integrating Physical Health Care in Behavioral Health Agencies in Rural Pennsylvania

This qualitative study examined the early implementation of the Behavioral Health Home Plus (BHHP) program in two county behavioral health agencies in rural Pennsylvania.

Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration

This report presents the initial steps taken to implement the demonstration and early evaluation results.

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Texas Case Study

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Ohio Case Study

This case study is primarily based on a site visit conducted in Ohio in May 2012 by staff from Mathematica Policy Research.

SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation Report

Launched in 2009, the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations project was a collaboration between physical and behavioral health managed care organizations and county behavioral health offices in Southeast and Southwest Pennsylvania to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for adult...

SMI Innovations Project: Southeast Pennsylvania Case Study

Launched in 2009, the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations project was a collaboration between physical and behavioral health managed care organizations and county behavioral health offices in Southeast and Southwest Pennsylvania to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for adult...

SMI Innovations Project: Southwest Pennsylvania Case Study

Launched in 2009, the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations project was a collaboration between physical and behavioral health managed care organizations and county behavioral health offices in Southeast and Southwest Pennsylvania to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for adult...

Applying Advocacy Skills in Tumultuous Times: Adaptive Capacity of Insuring America's Children Grantees (Executive Summary)

Applying Advocacy Skills in Tumultuous Times: Adaptive Capacity of Insuring America's Children Grantees

In 2007, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation established Insuring America's Children to help secure health care for all children.

Defining, Building, and Measuring Capacity: Findings from an Advocacy Evaluation

This article describes an evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Consumer Voices for Coverage, an initiative supporting consumer health advocacy coalitions in 12 states, and suggests approaches to building and measuring capacity for advocacy or other nonprofit activities for funders to consider....

Developing and Running a Primary Care Practice Facilitation Program: A How-To Guide

Working with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and LA Net, we developed a manual on creating and implementing successful practice implementation programs.

Foundation's Consumer Advocacy Health Reform Initiative Strengthened Groups' Effectiveness

This article in the GrantWatch section of Health Affairs describes the evaluation of Consumer Voices for Coverage, a state-based advocacy program to expand and improve health insurance coverage.

Strategies for Engaging and Retaining Latinos in HIV Care

This issue brief describes strategies that health care providers funded by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program use to improve Latinos’ access to and use of HIV medical and supportive services.

Identifying the Evaluation Capacity of Community Health Organizations

Assessment of the Train the Trainer Project Using the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum

This report summarizes the findings from Mathematica's assessment of project implementation, reach, effectiveness, and maintenance using a mix of quantitative and qualitative data.

Building Advocacy Capacity Where Grantees Started

This report describes findings from early assessments of the advocacy capacities of CVC leadership teams during the first year of the grant program (2008).

Leadership Team Member Organizations and Coalition Structures: Aggregate Findings from the Leadership Team Network Survey

By their nature, advocacy organizations form partnerships and alliances with others to achieve their public policy goals.

Final Evaluation Report: Best Practices for Enrolling Low-Income Beneficiaries into the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program

In 2006, optional coverage for outpatient prescription drugs (Medicare Part D) was added to the Medicare program, along with a low-income subsidy program to help beneficiaries with limited incomes pay for Part D out-of-pocket expenses.

Databases Strengthen Long-Term Care Partnerships

The Community Partnerships for Older Adults program provided grants to eight community partnerships to develop and implement creative strategies for improving awareness about long-term care and supportive services systems.

Summary of Focus Group Sessions at the 2008 Annual Grantee Meeting

Four focus group discussions were held with Consumer Voices for Coverage (CVC) grantees and leadership team members attending the program’s annual grantee meeting in September 2008.

Advocacy Capacity Assessment Instrument

The capacity of consumer organizations to participate actively in state or federal debates on health insurance coverage reform will affect their success in shaping health coverage policy in ways favorable to consumers.