The Center for Healthcare Strategies, Inc. has released a technical assistance brief offering strategies to improve Medicaid primary care.  Citing health reform's Medicaid expansion, the authors posit that improve Medicaid primary care is of the utmost importance.  The document outlines how states are using care managers and quality improvement coaches to improve Medicaid primary care quality and reduce costs.

From the report:

This technical assistance brief outlines how states are using two types of practice supports to help Medicaid primary care practices provide higher-quality, more patient-centered, and cost-effective care. It draws from the experiences of states participating in Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site, a Center for Health Care Strategies initiative designed to support small, high-volume Medicaid practices, as well as additional states with innovative programs to support primary care.

Full report: Practice Supports: Using Care Managers and Quality Improvement Coaches to Transform Medicaid Primary Care (PDF | 138.83 kb)

Center for Healthcare Strategies, Inc.  (2011).  Practice supports: using care managers and quality improvement coaches to transform Medicaid primary care.  Hasselman, D.