August 2022

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Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program Results

  • 12 Aug 2022

In 2022, disruptions caused by COVID-19 continued to persist and create barriers to essential preventive healthcare services. Therefore, the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program provided another round of payments to pediatric and family medicine practices.

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Pharmacy Quality Improvement Initiative:

  • 12 Aug 2022

Pharmacy Quality Improvement Initiative:

Improving Population Health / Reducing Low-Value Care in Primary Care through Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) or Professional Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (proCGM) 

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IBH Practice Facilitator Training Starting in October

  • 15 Aug 2022

CTC-RI is offering another round of practice facilitation training for behavioral health clinicians (psychologists, therapists, social workers, and nurses). Those who are interested in helping organizations and primary care teams develop their skills and processes to integrate behavioral health services into their practice environment are encouraged to apply by September 16.

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Good News from PCMH-Kids!

  • 15 Aug 2022

This year’s legislative session ended in late June and finalized the RI State budget for FY23 (July 2022-June 2023). Both the legislative package and the budget included increased state support for child and family health. Among the measures passed, we’d like to highlight the following four which have the potential to impact access and quality, improving child health in RI.

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Rhode to Equity Kicks Off Year 2

  • 16 Aug 2022

Rhode to Equity recently held its year 2 kickoff meeting. SME ideas and topics were discussed and teams worked in their dyads to strategically think about how to structure their dyad meetings and what they wish to achieve using Google Jamboard.

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Join our IBH Practice Facilitators for a Lunchtime Meet and Eat!

  • 30 Aug 2022

CTC-RI is offering an opportunity to have a casual Zoom conversation with our Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) practice facilitators, Dr. Liz Cantor and Dr. Kristin David. This is an opportunity for IBH clinicians (Psychologists, Therapists, Social Workers, and Nurses) to connect with other IBH professionals, to discuss IBH best practices, challenges, successes, and more!

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Important update from the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner

  • 31 Aug 2022

OHIC continues to focus on implementing initiatives to promote primary care, including through patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). OHIC requires commercial health plans to provide supplemental payments to primary care practices that meet OHIC’s three-part definition of PCMH to help finance their PCMH operations. The three-part definition includes requirements related to:

 

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Our Mission

The mission of CTC-RI is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in Rhode Island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system.  CTC-RI brings together critical stakeholders to implement, evaluate and spread effective multi-payer models to deliver, pay for and sustain high-quality, comprehensive, accountable primary care.