Join us for the 2017 CTC-RI Annual Learning Collaborative:
Primary Care Works: Effective Strategies to Improve Population Health and Patient Activation
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | 7:30 am–3:30 pm
The Crowne Plaza Hotel | 801 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, RI 02886
On September 14, 2017, the seven PCMH-Kids practices that are participating in the Postpartum Maternal Depression Screening learning collaborative convened for their second quarterly meeting as part of the pediatric integrated behavioral health project.
On September 8, 2017, CTC-RI and PCMH-Kids hosted its quarterly Breakfast of Champions learning opportunity with a focus on the utilization reports from the All Payer Claims Database (Healthfacts RI) to support data driven change at the practice level. The session also included a demonstration of the portal and sign-on process, break out discussion sessions for the pediatric and adult practice
CTC-RI has selected Data Stat as its qualified vendor for conducting the customer experience survey (CAHPS). CTC-RI, with financial support from the health plans, covers the costs associated with administering the CAHPS survey for practices currently participating in the CTC-RI program.
PCMH Kids practices are eligible to achieve performance incentive payments based on meeting 3 out of 4 permanence measures thresholds: 2 of which can be clinical quality measures , one can be customer experience measure (2 out of 3 measures for access, communication and office as defined below) and 1 utilization measure (ED usage compared with comparison group).
The governor's office announced this summer that Dr. Kathleen Hittner, the state's Health Insurance Commissioner, would etire from her position effective July 2017.
The mission of the Care Transformation Collaborative is to lead the transformation of primary care in Rhode Island in the context of an integrated health care system; and to improve the quality of care, the patient experience of care, the affordability of care, and the health of the populations we serve.
