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    State Innovation Model

    Overview
    Maryland was one of 21 state-level jurisdictions granted a State Innovation Model (SIM) Design
    Award in December 2014 (work completed 2015-2016). Maryland’s State Innovation Model (SIM)
    design grant for Public Health Services had three project deliverables: (1) the Population Health
    Plan: Planning for Population Health Improvement; (2) Population Health Measures Development;
    and (3) Care Plan Exchange. All three deliverables are incorporated into the State Healthcare
    System Innovation Plan (SHSIP), which was submitted to the federal Centers for Medicaid and
    Medicare Innovation (CMMI) of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) on January
    13, 2017. Each element provides foundational design work and establishes alignment in the
    Department’s efforts to accomplish the goals of the All-Payer Model.
     
    The Population Health components of the report are as follows:
    Population Health Improvement Plan: Planning for Population Health Improvement
     
    As the Maryland health care system increasingly migrates toward adopting public health
    approaches to meet the performance goals of the All-Payer Model, it requires that population
    health improvement focus beyond the clinical space to address all factors that determine health,
    the social determinants of health and health equity. The Plan is designed for a breadth of
    audiences ranging from Local Health Departments and community-based organizations to state
    agencies and hospitals. To this end, the Plan looks to enable improvement in population health
    outcomes and health equity by presenting a conceptual framework for identifying priority actions
    (interventions, policy, programs, partnerships, etc.). Furthermore, the Plan prompts an ongoing
    discussion that looks to consider return on investment and net savings as concepts and,
    potentially, as tools that can be mobilized when planning for population health improvement.
    Finally, the plan outlines future and continuing work including the following: continued
    stakeholder engagement, exploration of sustainable funding mechanisms for population health
    improvement, continued alignment with the All-Payer ModelMaryland Comprehensive Primary
    Care Model, Dual Eligible Accountable Care Organization project and integration with the
    State Health Improvement Process (SHIP).
     
    Population Health Measures Framework
     
    To accomplish the goals of the All-Payer Model and prepare for future data infrastructure and
    measure needs, the Department, in collaboration with agency partners, CRISP, and Johns
    Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health developed the Population Health
    Measures Framework deliverable. Maryland has been working with two broad goals:
    1. Begin to identify and develop measures of population health that can be used to bring accountability to the health systems that further the State’s transition to long-term improved health outcomes, health equity and community level health. The focus is to capture health at the population level.
    2. Update the State’s current set of measures for population health to be both more timely and relevant to the All-Payer Model. This includes expanding on the existing State Health Improvement Process (SHIP).

    Care Plan Exchange

    The Department engaged with CRISP to work with stakeholders to develop an approach to
    enable the aggregation and exchange of care plans across providers who are treating the same
    patients, especially during emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Improving the exchange
    of care plans will help to support the goal of the SIM Design work to develop a strategy to
    integrate care delivery for high-need patients in Maryland including those with multiple chronic
    illnesses, high-utilizer populations and individuals dually-eligible for both Medicaid and
    Medicare. The report outlines the current state of care plan development in Maryland and the
    CRISP-enabled solutions to store and make available care plans across providers who are
    treating the same patients.
    What does the program do?

    • Design models for sustaining population health in Maryland.
    • Develop data measurements for assessing population health.
    • Study care plan exchanges to address gaps in Health Information Exchange.
    • Identify opportunities for mechanisms to fund population health sustainability.
    • Foster public-private partnerships to improve population health among providers, health systems, local health departments, and community based organizations.
    • Develop health care strategies in coordination with federal and state partners.

     Where can I learn more?

    Questions or comments may be directed to: Chad Perman, MPP, Director, Health Systems
    Transformation, chad.perman@maryland.gov, 410-767-4557.
     
    For our updated contact information, please refer to the toolbar "Popular Links" for the "Staff Directory."
     
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    ​Last updated: 2017 Feb 28