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AAFP Telehealth Toolkit

For family medicine practices, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the inadequacy of fee-for-service (FFS) payment to support family medicine practices’ focus on health, wellness, and disease prevention.

ACOG | Clinical

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ACOG, provides an indispensable decision-support resource for women's health care providers—reliable and relevant, grounded in scientific evidence, and developed through a rigorous and inclusive process.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

ACEs Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refers to traumatic events experienced in childhood that impact health over the lifespan. These include physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect, and/or family dysfunction. Learn more about specific ACEs linked to negative health outcomes in adulthood, including: experiencing homelessness, community violence, discrimination, and deportation or migration.

AHRQ COVID-19 Resources

Response to the COVID-19 pandemic The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety, quality, and value of patient care delivered by America’s healthcare system. The Nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is supported by AHRQ’s competencies in the use of practice improvement, health systems research, and data and analytics.

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine is the professional organization for physicians specializing in hospice and palliative medicine. Membership is open to other health care providers who are committed to improving the quality of life of patients and families facing life-threatening or serious conditions. Activities focus on education and training, resources, networking, and advocacy.

Behavioral Health Clinical Quality Measures Tool

Developed to assist behavioral health providers in their practice transformation efforts, this tool consolidates behavioral health-related clinical quality measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF), a convening of multiple stakeholders in relevant areas responsible for reviewing and recommending healthcare quality measures. Coaches can use this tool as a reference guide as they help providers and practices navigate toward whole-person care.

Billing and Information Technology: A Toolkit for Behavioral Health Agencies

Billing and Information Technology: A Toolkit for Behavioral Health Agencies The Healthier Washington initiative has set a statewide goal of financially integrating physical and behavioral health care, including substance use disorder treatment, by January 2020. This change will impact:

Case Example for Incorporating Social Needs Into Care: Contra Costa and Health Leads

Contra Costa partnered with Health Leads to integrate patients' basic needs into care delivery. Learn about their challenges and experiences in shifting from volume-based to value-based care.

Cheat Sheet on Medicare Payments for Behavioral Health Integration Services

Medicare pays for services provided to patients participating in a collaborative care program or receiving other behavioral health integration (BHI) services. The payment structure may be used for patients with any behavioral health condition being addressed by the treating provider, including substance use disorders. The codes described are not billable by Federally Qualified Health Centers or Rural Health Clinics.

Chronic Care Management Partner Toolkit

This toolkit contains educational materials and resources to raise awareness about the importance of chronic care management (CCM) services for Medicare and dual eligible patients who are managing multiple chronic conditions. Category: chronic disease prevention and control

Chronic Care Management Patient Postcard - English

This post card can be given to patients for more information about Chronic Care Management Resource. For Spanish version, click here Category: chronic disease prevention and control

Clinical Data Repository (CDR) Application for Behavioral Health Providers

Behavioral health providers contracted with Medicaid can now access OneHealthPort, Washington state’s Provider Data Service and Health Information Exchange (HIE) system, for a more comprehensive view of a client’s engagement in care.

Clinical guide for treating pregnant and parenting women that use opioids

This guide provides comprehensive, national guidance for management of pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder and their infants. The clinical guide helps healthcare professionals and patients determine the most clinically appropriate action for a particular situation and informs individualized treatment decisions.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care

The mission of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care is to create clinical practice guidelines that improve the quality of palliative care in the United States. Specifically, the clinical practice guidelines promote quality palliative care, foster consistent and high standards in palliative care, and encourage continuity of care across settings.

Collaborative Care Case Example: New York City Health + Hospitals

New York City Health + Hospitals, one of the country's largest public health care system, uses a collaborative care model to integrate mental health into primary care. They provide screening and treatment in the primary care setting. Main takeaways:

Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain

Report and Recommendations from the Bree Collaborative Treatment of pain varies widely between systems and clinicians with high financial and human cost. Moving to a collaborative or team-based approach to managing complex pain has been shown to result in better patient outcomes. However, most approaches to pain management including chronic opioid therapy involved siloed health care providers. This workgroup met from January 2018 to January 2019 and defined minimum standards for:

Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care The SUMMIT Randomized Clinical Trial

Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Key Points Question:  Does collaborative care for opioid and alcohol use disorders increase treatment use and self-reported abstinence compared with usual primary care?

Collaborative Care Model Effective For Addiction Treatment

Collaborative care has a way of stretching the skill sets of all involved. Over the past few years, we have come to realize the importance of treating not only common mental disorders but also addiction problems in primary care. Mark Duncan, M.D., shares his experience treating patients with substance use disorders in a collaborative care model and shows us that leveraging the strengths of collaborative care for addiction treatment has much promise. —Jürgen Unützer, M.D., M.P.H.

Communication Skills for Clinicians

Research through a National Institutes of Health grant proved that “communication skills for serious illness are learnable.” VitalTalk is a nationally known Seattle 501(c)(3) that disseminates that research. VitalTalk states, “We believe every clinician can become a better communicator.”

Community Health Workers - core components of effectiveness

Community health workers are a crucial resource for healthcare transformation. Take a look at a new article from the NEJM Catalyst series.