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Arkansas Regional Quality Improvement Initiative
| Topics |
Health care quality
Health promotion and disease prevention
Medicare and Medicaid
Wellness
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| States served |
Arkansas
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| Description |
The Arkansas RQI initiative is targeting quality improvement breakthroughs in four clinical areas: comprehensive diabetes care, cervical cancer screening, well-child visits, and preventive services for adults.
The RQI initiative seeks to leverage Medicaid’s significant purchasing power to improve care for people with chronic conditions through partnerships with other health care leaders, including commercial insurers, employers, providers, and consumer organizations.
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| Services offered |
To create these improvements, participants are:
Supporting and expanding the state’s statewide Health Information Exchange;
Standardizing and aggregating health care data across multiple payers to calculate measures which will drive coordinated quality improvement efforts; and
Sharing performance measures across payers at a regional level. |
| Results |
The Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care and Arkansas Medicaid are leading the coalition, which represents over 1.1 million covered lives. In less than six months, the leaders have selected a set of performance measures and engaged a comprehensive group of regional stakeholders – approximately 30 to date – including:
American College of Physicians
Arkansas Health Care Association and Hospital Association
Arkansas State Employees Insurance Plan
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
QualChoice of Arkansas
Wal-Mart |
| Source |
Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)
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| Contact person |
John Barth
E-mail: jbarth@chcs.org
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| Date added |
July 12, 2007 |
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