Introduction: While there has been impressive progress in creating and improving
community healthcare delivery systems that support people with intellectual and …

The historic passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010 offers
the potential to address long-standing deficits in quality and integration of services at the …

Patients who accumulate multiple emergency department visits and hospital admissions,
known as super-utilizers, have become the focus of policy initiatives aimed at preventing …

Objectives: We examined prevalence of major medical conditions and extent of disease
burden among patients with and without substance use disorders (SUDs) in an integrated …

Introduction Using cross-sectional survey data, we assessed the association between
chronic illness burden and health-related self-efficacy, evaluating whether patient-centered …

Context The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched
accountable care organization (ACO) programs designed to improve quality and slow cost …

Background: The coexistence of chronic mental health conditions with somatic conditions
(somatic–mental multimorbidity, or SMM) is common and has been associated with greater …

Background In an attempt to contain Medicaid pharmacy costs, nearly all states impose
dispensing limits on medication days' supply. Although longer days' supply appears to …

Background: Patients with comorbid medical and mental conditions are at risk for poor
quality of care. With the anticipated expansion of Medicaid under health reform, it is …

Patients with high emergency department (ED) utilization are an important focus in
population health management. This retrospective cohort study analyzed patterns of …