Project Title: Raising the Bar for Web Resources on Health Care Performance Benchmarking and Improvement: Upgrades for WhyNotTheBest.org, Phase 3
Principal Investigator: Martha Hostetter, M.F.A.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $168,120
This year's grant, in addition to supporting the site's hosting and maintenance, will enable IPRO and Fund staff to update data sets, add new information on physician performance and prevention, and highlight hospital systems' structural features, which will enable comparisons among systems with varying degrees of integration.
Project Title: Tracking Health Reform's Impact on Insurance Coverage for Young Adults, Older Adults, and Low-Income Families
Principal Investigator: Jordon Peugh, M.A.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $363,900
To track the Affordable Care Act's impact as it is implemented and to establish baseline measures prior to 2014, this project will launch three longitudinal online surveys of young adults (ages 19 to 29), older adults (ages 50 to 70), and low-income adults (ages 19 to 64).
Project Title: Surveying Physician Practices About Their Capacity to Provide Coordinated, Patient-Centered Care
Principal Investigator: Catherine DesRoches, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $317,162
The proposed survey will assess physicians' capacity to deliver this high level of care. Questions will explore: the organizational settings and local health care markets in which primary and specialty care physicians practice; relationships with other providers; care coordination processes; type of reimbursement; and the use of health information technology to tailor health care interventions based on clinical need, make care safer, support clinical decisions, and exchange clinical information.
Project Title: Tracking Progress in Health Care Integration and Adoption of Best Practices for High Performance: A Data Brief Series
Principal Investigator: Maulik S. Joshi, Dr.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $215,944
This project will produce four to six data briefs for WhyNotTheBest.org and The Commonwealth Fund's main Web site that summarize information about the nature and impact of these structural and organizational changes.
Project Title: Evaluating a Shared Patient-Panel Manager Program in New York City’s Primary Care Information Project
Principal Investigator: Tara F. Bishop, M.D.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $223,881
This project will evaluate a pilot program in New York City in which safety-net practices will share the services of a patient-panel manager. The evaluation will assess if the quality of care provided to chronically ill patients served by panel managers improves relative to patients not receiving this additional clinical support.
Project Title: Sustaining, Strengthening, and Expanding State Medical Home Initiatives, Phase 3
Principal Investigator: Neva Kaye
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $367,226
Over the past three years, National Academy for State Health Policy staff have provided technical assistance to Medicaid officials in 16 states that are designing and launching medical home demonstrations targeting low-income populations.
Project Title: Commonwealth Fund/Nuffield Trust International Conference on Health Care Quality Improvement, 2011
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Dixon, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $75,000
The 12th conference in the series of annual transatlantic forums on quality improvement sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and the United Kingdom's Nuffield Trust will examine how sweeping health reforms in the U.S. and U.K aim to transform health care delivery and achieve cost savings.
Project Title: Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey, Year 6
Principal Investigator: Roz Pierson, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $53,000
The Commonwealth Fund's Health Care Opinion Leader surveys contributed important information to the health reform debate, and they are likely to continue to play a key role during implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Project Title: Raising the Bar for Web Resources on Health Care Performance Benchmarking and Improvement: Upgrades for WhyNotTheBest.org, Phase 3
Principal Investigator: Jaz-Michael King
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $524,702
This year's grant, in addition to supporting the site's hosting and maintenance, will enable IPRO and Fund staff to update data sets, add new information on physician performance and prevention, and highlight hospital systems' structural features, which will enable comparisons among systems with varying degrees of integration.
Project Title: Advancing Pilot Tests of Accountable Care Organizations, Phase 2
Principal Investigator: Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $356,562
This grant will develop and test a more advanced set of measures with pilot sites, including clinical outcomes measures and patient-reported measures of care experience and health status. A framework for evaluating the implementation and sustainability of new ACOs will also be created.
Project Title: Surveying Hospitals and Health Systems About Their Readiness to Be Accountable for the Continuum of Patient Care
Principal Investigator: Maulik S. Joshi, Dr.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $106,425
This project will survey system leaders about their organizations' ability to: 1) provide integrated primary, acute, and post-acute care services; 2) enable communication and clinical information exchange among all providers involved in a patient's care; and 3) manage financial risk, receive bundled payment, and calculate and distribute shared savings to providers.
Project Title: Seizing Opportunities to Facilitate State Health Care Reform
Principal Investigator: Edward L. Schor, M.D.
Date Awarded: November 9, 2010
Award Amount: $250,000
With this special opportunities authorization, a set of small grants will enable The Commonwealth Fund to support efforts to convene state officials to discuss health reform issues. Grantees will produce a series of reports focused on ways to expand public-private collaboration within health care delivery to achieve higher levels of care coordination, chronic care management, and preventive care.
Project Title: Analysis of Health Reform Implementation Issues Likely to be Revisited in the 112th Congress
Principal Investigator: Katie B. Horton, R.N., J.D., M.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 3, 2010
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: A Quarter Century of Public Reporting in Health Care: What Have We Learned?
Principal Investigator: Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: November 1, 2010
Award Amount: $34,893
Project Title: Engaging Providers in the Design and Implementation of Innovative Demonstration Projects
Principal Investigator: Maulik S. Joshi, Dr.P.H.
Date Awarded: November 1, 2010
Award Amount: $49,977