Minnesota’s Vision:Health Care Homes (aka Patient-Centered Medical Homes)

State Name: “Minnesota” comes from Dakota Indian words meaning “sky-tinted waters,” or “sky-blue waters.” Often nicknamed “land of 10,000 lakes.”

Statehood: Minnesota became a state in 1858 and was the 32nd state in the union.

Size: 12th largest state in theUnited States.

Minnesota Starts from a Good Place: Health Care Delivery

Ranked as one of the top 2 or 3 healthiest states History of collaboration and innovation in the

health care delivery system• Largely non-profit environment• High concentration of large, integrated, multi-

specialty group medical practices in urban and rural practices

• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)

• Minnesota Community Measurement• Active large purchasers

Minnesota Starts from a Good Place: Payers

Among the nation’s lowest uninsurance rates Strong employer base Significant presence of local health plans Health plans are required to be non-profit to

participate in Medicaid managed care, contracts with public employee insurance programs or workers’ compensation.

MN has MinnesotaCare a subsidized insurance program (since 1992, pre-SCHIP)

Minnesota Starts from a Good Place: Primary Care

MN HCH Capacity Assessment: 707 primary care clinics

Minnesota Still Faces Challenges

Rising health care costs in the state are unsustainable.

Our health care system creates poor value and has misaligned incentives.

Private insurance continues to erode, and the number of uninsured is rising.

Health care quality is low relative to the amount spent, and unevenly distributed across the population.

The way we pay for health care services leads to distortions in the types of health care that gets delivered.

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Sources: Minnesota Department of Health, Health Economics Program; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development

2008 Health Reform Law: Minnesota’s Vision

Framework for Minnesota’s Vision: IHI’s Triple Aim

Improve population health Improve the patient/consumer

experience Improve the affordability of health

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Care Delivery & Payment Redesign:A Great Health Care Home…

Is satisfying for patients, families, providers and clinic staff!

Two Foundational Pieces of Legislation

2007: First “medical home” legislation. Provider Directed Care Coordination for patients with complex illness in the Medicaid FFS population (now Primary Care Coordination, or PCC)

2008: Health care reform legislation requires health care homes (HCH) for all Medicaid / SCHIP / state employees / privately insured in Minnesota

Primary Care Coordination: PCCHealth Care Homes: HCH

Both programs promote care coordination and focus on achievement of outcomes.

– PCC: focuses on most chronically ill fee-for-service Medicaid patients

– HCH: focuses on all patients who have or are at risk of chronic or complex conditions, can benefit from the services of a HCH and are interested in participation

Both have new payment options for per-person care coordination

2008 HCH Legislation… the standards developed by the commissioners must meet the following criteria:

use of primary care focus on high-quality, efficient, and effective health

care services use of health information technology and systematic

follow-up, including the use of patient registries provide consistent, ongoing contact with a personal

clinician or team of clinical professionals ensure appropriate comprehensive care plans for

their patients with complex or chronic conditions measure quality, resource use, cost of care, and

patient experience; use of scientifically based health care, patient

decision-making aids encourage patient-centered care

Care Coordination Payments:Legislative Requirements

DHS / MDH develop a system of per-person care coordination payments to certified HCHs by 1/1/2010, MN [256B.073] and MN [62U.03]

Health plans include HCHs in their provider networks by 1/1/2010

Fees vary by thresholds of patient complexity

Development considers the feasibility of including non-medical complexity information.

Payment conditions and terms for health plans shall be developed “in a manner that is consistent with” the system for public enrollees.

Health Plans and DHS make care coordination payments by 7/1/2010

Care Coordination Payments:The Goal of Critical Mass

Included (~40% of Minnesotans):• Medicaid/State-funded Public Programs

(11%) • State Employees• Fully-Insured Private Insurance (small

employer groups and individual policies) (28%)

Not Included (~60% of Minnesotans):• Medicare (14%) • Self-Insured Private Insurance (large

employer groups) (40%)• Uninsured (7%)

Health Care Homes:Program Development Tasks

Identification of outcomesCriteria for participationVerification processCommon payment methodologyIncorporation of collaborative learningMeasurement of resultsCommunity-wide communication

Health Care Homes:Standards and Criteria

facilitates consistent and ongoing communication among the HCH and the patient and family, and provides the patient with continuous access to the patient’s HCH;

uses an electronic, searchable patient registry that enables the HCH to manage health care services, provide appropriate follow-up and identify gaps in patient care;

includes care coordination that focuses on patient and family-centered care;

includes a care plan for selected patients with a chronic or complex condition, involve the patient and, if appropriate, the patient’s family in the care planning process; and

reflects continuous improvement in the quality of the patient’s experience, the patient’s health outcomes, and the cost-effectiveness of services.

What Makes Minnesota’s Vision for Health Care Homes Unique?

Statewide approach, public / private partnership Rule with HCH standards for certification, with an onsite verification process. Development of a payment methodology, per-person

care coordination payment Integration of community partnerships with the HCH Outcomes measurement with accountability Required participation in a state-sponsored HCH learning collaborative Statewide health information technology plan in place Integration of patient and family

centered care concepts

Who Can Apply for HCH Certification?

An eligible provider is a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant that works as part of a team that takes responsibility for the patient’s care and provides the full range of primary care services including:

first point of contact acute carepreventive care chronic care

Providers are certified. A clinic is certified when all the clinic’s providers meet the requirements for certification.

Certification as HCH is Voluntary

Certification requirements are met at certification

Recertification at the end of year one and annually thereafter

A variance may be granted for good cause or when failure to grant a variance would result in hardship

Health Care Homes:Certification and Measurement

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C E R T I F I C A T I O N A C T I V I T Y

At Certification End of Year One End of Year Two & future years

HCH Certification Time Line Certification Verification: Process to verify clinic meets HCH certification standards

Outcomes Measurement: Measurement of improvement or decline in quality health, pt. experience or cost/value

Outcomes Measurement Requirements

HCHs must submit data to the statewide measurement reporting system

Outcomes measures are based on the clinic’s total population

The commissioner announces annually:– HCH outcome measures – Benchmarks to determine whether a HCH has

demonstrated sufficient progressThese are determined through a community

work group process.

Challenges: Clinic Readiness to Begin HCH Implementation?

Two studies over the past few months:

– 72% and 83% of primary care clinics self-identified they are working on health care home and they plan to seek certification. N = 375 / 400

In one study 15% of clinics replied that they did not know about the certification.

Do clinics really understand the transformation required?

Challenges: Consumer Gaps in Understanding HCH Concepts

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Only 50% of patients agreed or strongly agreed that they understood the meaning of Health Care Home

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Challenges: Payment Methodology for Care Coordination Payments

Is the per person care coordination fee the right billing model?

Can we design a billing process for types of payers?

What about cost neutrality for clinics, payers and patients?

Skepticism: Will HCH control costs?

The critical mass challenge?

Challenges: Certification

Are the standards too hard to achieve?Are the standards rigorous enough for

transformation and improvements in “triple aim” outcomes?

Will payers and clinics have confidence in the statewide certification process?

How many clinics will seek certification. Is it manageable?

How will annual recertification look like as it is tied to outcomes?

Minnesota’s Vision for Health Care Homes: Opportunities and Challenges

Transformational change in care delivery

•Changes in clinic / community infrastructure and culture

•Creation of a patient- and family-centered health care system

Measurement must evaluate all three goals of the IHI Triple

Aim and evaluate progress

Payment must blend payments for services and coordination of careThis is just one example of what

having a “ Medical Home” has done for Amanda and us as a Family!!” Marion (Amanda’s mom)

Minnesota’s Vision: Health Care Homes

Marie Maes-Voreis RN, MAHealth Care Homes, Program Mangermarie.maes-voreis@state.mn.us651-201-3626

www.health.state.mn.us/healthreform/homeshealth.healthcarehomes@state.mn.us