Effects of Coordinated Care for Disabled Medicaid Recipients

MDRC

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Conditions Faced by Medicaid Recipients With Disabilities

Treatments: Behavioral: Coordinated care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00940511

MDRC-CO-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to improve the quality of care for individuals with multiple chronic conditions, health care systems have begun turning to coordinated care. Although coordinated care can refer to many different things, it usually includes activities such as assessing patients' needs, referring them to the right doctors, helping them make and keep appointments, and helping them comply with medical or dietary recommendations. To understand the effects of coordinated care for high-needs Medicaid recipients, MDRC is conducting a randomized trial of a pilot coordinated care program run by Kaiser Permanente for blind and disabled Medicaid recipients in the Denver area.

Enrollment: 2,618 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Disabled, in fee-for-service Medicaid

Exclusion criteria

• Under age 18, over age 64

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,618 participants in 2 patient groups

Coordinated care

Experimental group

Description:

Individuals will be passively enrolled in Medicaid managed care. Those who do not opt out of managed care will be provided with care coordination.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Coordinated care

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

The usual care group will remain in fee-for-service Medicaid and receive services normally available through that system.