The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona’s Medicaid agency, included requirements related to medical homes in their last request for proposals (RFP) for acute care services. They required all proposers to describe their system and plan to award a contract (and additional funding) to one managed care organization (MCO) to assist in the development of a medical home for the Medicaid population. AHCCCS is also working under a "Round two" CMS Medicaid Transformation grant to develop a Value Driven Decision Support Tool Box , which will be available to all 1 million plus Arizona Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiaries and the health plans and providers who serve them. This toolbox is intended, among other objectives, to better support medical home functions for both providers and beneficiaries. Finally, AHCCCS’s 2010 Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Strategy report notes that a key project under development is enhanced health information technology (HIT) to “Improve care coordination through a medical home model including but not limited to members with special health care needs, chronic health conditions or those challenged with navigation of the health care system.”
Targeted population: Medicaid/CHIP.
The RFP is available here (see pages 35, 55, 95, and 127): http://azahcccs.gov/commercial/Downloads/Solicitations/Closed/YH09-0001/...
The 2010 Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Strategy report is available here: http://azahcccs.gov/reporting/Downloads/QualityStrategy.pdf
