A Model of Health Care That Seeks to ‘Tilt the Balance’ for At-Risk Patients

Knowing that traditional care management approaches weren’t working for the most vulnerable residents in their community, health care leaders in Minnesota’s Hennepin County teamed up to create a Medicaid accountable care organization (ACO) focused on providing a single point of contact for those dealing with a constellation of medical, behavioral, and social problems. The latest case study in The Commonwealth Fund’s Care Models for High-Need, High-Cost Patients series explores how Hennepin Health seeks to “tilt the balance toward greater social support and less-costly preventive and primary care.”