The impact of value-based healthcare for inflammatory bowel diseases on healthcare utilization: a pilot study.

Background And Objectives: Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is considered to be the solution that will improve quality and decrease costs in healthcare. Many hospitals are implementing programs on the basis of this strategy, but rigorous scientific reports are still lacking. In this pilot study, we present the first-year outcomes of a VBHC program for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management that focuses on highly coordinated care, task differentiation of providers, and continuous home monitoring.

Quality improvement for medicaid members of a commercial health plan: impact on racial/ethnic differences.

Objective: To describe one commercial Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) health plan's quality improvement (QI) program that achieved high varicella immunization rates among members of an ethnically diverse population in California.

Design: Retrospective study using administrative data.

Patients: Blue Cross of California Medicaid enrolled children who turned two years old during each calendar year of the study.