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Community Health Partnership Highlighted in AARP Research Report
Community Health Partnership, Inc. (CHP) is included among five Medicare/Medicaid organizations recently recognized in a special research report published by AARP.
The publication titled, Experienced Voices: What Do Dual Eligibles Want from Their Care, provides a summary of information collected during member, guardian, and caregiver focus groups held earlier this year at CHP and four other organizations located in New York, North Carolina, Maryland, and California. The five organizations represent care models that include: fee-for service Medicare and Medicaid; enhanced Primary Care Case Management (PCCM); partially integrated and fully integrated Medicare Special Needs Plans (SNPs); and Programs for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
The project was funded by the AARP Public Policy Institute and conducted by the Lakeland Research Center from Washington, D.C. The focus groups sought to learn more about what individuals who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid experience with different models of care, what they want from their care delivery models, and where they experience problems with the way they receive their care.
The report was formally introduced on December 12, 2011 at a U.S. Senate hearing co-sponsored by the AARP Public Policy Institute and the Alliance for Health Reform. The hearing included presentations from staff affiliated with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) along with testimony from representatives of the five Medicare/Medicaid organizations.
Community Health Partnership, a program of Partnership Health Plan, Inc. is a fully-integrated Medicare Special Needs Plan that contracts with CMS to provide the Medicare benefit package —hospital services, primary care, and pharmacy coverage — to dual eligible members residing in CHP’s five-county service area in west-central Wisconsin. CHP also contracts with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to provide Medicaid benefits home & community-based waiver services and other long-term services and supports to eligible members.
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