State Innovation Models Initiative: Model Design Project Profiles - State of Pennsylvania

State of Pennsylvania

Geographic Reach: Pennsylvania
Funding Amount: $1,560,135

Summary

Over the next 6 months, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will receive up to $1,560,135 to develop its State Health Care Innovation Plan.  Funding will be subject to successful completion of the terms and conditions for the State Innovation Model initiative.

The Pennsylvania plan builds upon current private and public sector payer and provider initiatives to advance new care delivery models and payment methodologies. The plan places strong emphasis on the need for innovative models on transitions of care, telemedicine and care management. Through the promotion of accountable provider entities responsible for population based care, the state aims to develop a model that deploys community-based care teams to provide more appropriate services to “super-utilizers” and enhance access to public health preventive services by better integrating the services into the provider community. The model will also motivate alignment of patient, provider, and payer interest through gain-sharing models. Infrastructure to support the model design will incorporate expanded health information technology to facilitate health record data sharing, advanced telemedicine services particularly in rural areas, and objective measurement of healthcare workforce data to make improvements to existing training.

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