Arkansas

Arkansas has a strong commitment to supporting the PCMH as a foundation to state health care reform, evidenced by sweeping statewide legislation and grant funded PCMH pilots. In 2011, Arkansas Medicaid, the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and QualChoice of Arkansas partnered to transform the state’s health care and payment system through the Arkansas Health Care Payment Improvement Initiative. In 2013, the Governor signed the Health Care Independence Act into law. The Health Care Independence Act requires QHPs offered on the exchange to participate in the Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative, which includes assignment to a primary care clinician, support for PCMH and access of clinical performance data for providers.

In 2013 Arkansas was awarded a State Innovation Model grant by CMS, which further builds upon their Payment Improvement Initiative and PCMH support. In 2014, the Arkansas legislature approved the expansion of Medicaid through a "private option" platform. The "private option" allows the state to use federal funding to buy plans for low-income individuals from the state's Insurance Marketplace. In January of 2015, Arkansas Surgeon General "noted that close to 80 percent of the state’s Medicaid beneficiaries are now covered by a patient-centered medical home."  

 

CHIPRA: 
No
MAPCP: 
No
Dual Eligible: 
No
2703 Health Home: 
No
CPCi: 
Yes
SIM Awards: 
Yes
PCMH in QHP: 
Yes
Legislative PCMH Initiative: 
Yes
Private Payer Program: 
Yes
State Facts: 
Population:
2,941,100
Uninsured Population:
15%
Total Medicaid Spending FY 2013: 
$4.2 Billion 
Overweight/Obese Adults:
69.9%
Poor Mental Health among Adults: 
35.9%
Medicaid Expansion: 
Yes
CPC+: 
CPC+

4,100 more Arkansans lose Medicaid over work requirements

More than 4,100 Medicaid expansion enrollees in Arkansas will lose coverage for the rest of 2018 because they did not comply with the state's work requirement policy, state officials announced Monday.

News Author: 
Harris Meyer

Arkansas Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

In 2016, Arkansas was one of 14 regions selected through a competitive process to participate in round one of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative launched by CMS. CPC+ is an advanced five-year initiative designed to strengthen primary care delivery, promote better health outcomes, and control overall health care costs.  The initiative developed by CMS  and supported by Arkansas’s largest public and private payers transitions Medicare fee-for-service to value based alternative payment models in collaboration with Medicaid.

University of Arkansas Medical Science

Practice Type: 
Multispecialty practice
Primary care practice
Practice Setting: 
Rural
Urban
Suburban
Practice Address: 
Little Rock, AR

UAMS, with its intersection of education, research, and clinical programs, brings a unique capacity to lead health care improvement in Arkansas. Among its assets for leadership are its status as the only academic health center in the state, its statewide network of centers for public education and clinical outreach, its emphasis on population health, and its leadership in health informatics and statewide information technology. In addition, UAMS has a unique capacity for translational research – speeding the rate at which research can inform clinical care and health improvement.

Arkansas lawmakers advance hybrid Medicaid expansion

Gov. Asa Hutchinson called the debate over Arkansas' hybrid Medicaid expansion a "watershed" moment on Wednesday, as lawmakers advanced his plan to keep and rework the program that provides subsidized health coverage to more than 250,000 people.

Governor Seeks New Concessions From CMS To Maintain Arkansas’ Medicaid Expansion

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is set to meet Monday with federal officials in Washington to negotiate the future of the state’s Medicaid expansion program, which leading Republicans say could be killed if it’s not changed.

News Author: 
David Ramsey

Health Reform Legislative Task Force issues final report

In its final meeting of the year, the Arkansas Health Reform Task Force today approved a draft of its final report on the future of Medicaid and the private option. Here is the draft of the report — due by the end of this year under the statute which created the task force.

News Author: 
David Ramsey

Arkansas Governor Wants to Keep Medicaid Expansion, but With Changes

Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas on Wednesday told an advisory group weighing the future of the state’s alternative Medicaidexpansion that he favored keeping it — but only if the federal government allowed changes that seemed intended to appeal to conservative legislators who continue to oppose the program.

News Author: 
Abby Goodnough

Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative Results Mixed

Fifty-nine primary care practices representing 254 physicians are currently participating in a four-year pilot program by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services known as CPCI, the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative.

News Author: 
Gwen Moritz

Health Care Independence Act

The Health Care Independence Act requires Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) offered on the Arkansas exchange to participate in the Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative, which includes assignment to a primary care clinician, support for PCMH and access of clinical performance data for providers.

The Promise and Pitfalls of State-Based Payment Reform

2015-02-27 13:00 to 14:30

Many states across the nation are in the process of designing and implementing multi-payer payment reform initiatives. The goals of these initiatives are to lower health care costs, improve health outcomes, and enhance the quality of care. States are receiving significant federal funds to accelerate payment and delivery system transformation: the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation recently announced more than $660 million to 32 states (including DC and three territories).

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