Clients: Health Equity
Bailit Health has assisted over 150 clients since 1997 to improve methods for purchasing or regulating health and human services. A partial listing of these clients can be found below, as well as examples of the types of work that we have conducted for them.
Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Client:
State Health and Value Strategies
Challenge:
Medicaid’s role in providing health care coverage to individuals who experience economic and social disadvantage is motivating many states to integrate health equity into their population health management strategies, yet many states lack an understanding of concrete states they can take to achieve this aim.
Response:
Bailit Health created a "Promoting Health Equity in Medicaid Managed Care: A Guide for States"", a practical guide that offers a series of concrete actions state Medicaid agencies can implement internally and with their contracted health plans in pursuit of health equity. The guide was published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program.
Client:
Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Challenge:Introduce a health equity performance incentive into Rhode Island’s Medicaid ACO program.
Response:
Bailit Health worked with the state Medicaid agency and a work group comprised of Accountable Entities (Medicaid ACOs) and managed care organizations to devise a “measure of measures” that stratifies existing measures in the state’s quality incentive program by member race, ethnicity and language.
Client:
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Challenge:
A lack of data standards, performance measures and accountability mechanisms significantly limits state efforts to reduce disparities and improve health equity.
Response:
Bailit Health is supporting the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services to develop standards for capture, categorization and validity of race, ethnicity, language and disability status data and for sexual orientation and gender identity data. The work also includes identification of health equity measures and mechanisms for assuring provider accountability for disparity reduction.
