In the inaugural episode, Charisse interviews Dr. Anna Foucek Tresidder, Program Director and Assistant Professor Public Health, College of Health Science and Public Health, at Eastern Washington University. That’s a mouthful! Their conversation is equally robust.
Read MoreBHT selected the two who we felt could immediately serve the criminal justice-involved clients of this Pathways Hub Pilot launching November 2018. We are pleased to announce that we will offer contracts to…
Read MoreSummaries of notable Technical Council and Board activities and decisions for September 10-October 15, 2018.
Read MoreMedicaid Transformation work is running full speed ahead. Partnering Providers and Collaboratives have created Transformation Plans and now BHT is planning steps for how move forward into 2019.
Read MoreThe Better Health Together Accountable Community of Health, is initiating this Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit proposals to enter into an agreement with care coordination agencies to provide direct care coordination services using the Pathways Community Hub Model (Pathways) and Care Coordination Systems (CCS) data/reporting platform.
Read MoreDetailed questions and answers regarding the transition to fully integrated managed care (FIMC/IMC).
Read MoreDetailed questions and answers regarding the earning, allocation, and distribution of 1115 Waiver Project Funds.
Read MoreHosted by the Washington State Health Care Authority's Healthier Washington team, the Learning Symposium is a full-day conference focusing on Medicaid Transformation in Washington State, and is specifically tailored for you as our partner in community and health systems change.
Read MoreThe Medicaid Transformation Project requires all Washington ACHs to focus on three strategy areas that address the core health system capacities; value based payments, workforce, and population health management.
Read MoreIt is important that while we stay focused on meeting the outcomes of transformation, we don’t miss the opportunity to influence a much needed culture shift towards health equity.
Read MoreThe Waiver Finance Workgroup is one of this ACH's longest-running councils and carries a critical workload in moving the Medicaid Transformation forwar
Read MoreThe Community Voices Council is off and running! This council's charge is to tap directly into the needs of the very citizens the Transformation is meant to serve.
Read MoreYou're invited to join Better Health Together for two presentations; one on Upstream and the other on Six Building Blocks Approach to Improving Care for Patients using Chronic Opioid Medications.
Read MoreThe Community-Based Care Coordination Advisory Council (also known as the Hub Council), met for the first time last Monday in its early stages.
Read MoreThe Provider Champions Council lends clinical leadership and expertise to the BHT Medicaid Transformation efforts
Read MoreWhew! It's hard to believe it is nearly March and pitchers and catchers have already reported to Spring training. We have been busy these last two months.
Read MoreWashington State will use funds transferred from public providers, know as Intergovernmental Transfers (IGT), to make up a portion of the dollars for Medicaid Transformation.
Read MoreThroughout the ACH development process the BHT team has committed to keeping our partners informed on the many moving parts of this work. This often means we release information ONLY to find it to be “clarified” by new information or additional guidance provided via the Health Care Authority. As we noted on Friday, there are ongoing uncertainties surrounding ACH Funds Flow, specifically related to negotiations with the BHO and HCA, on behalf of our region, for our Integrated Managed Care efforts and the timing of earned Project funds for Year 1.
Both of these outstanding issues caused us pause. We know we have a lot of work to do to be ready for transformational efforts. We are also very clear that this is a heavy lift for our Providers and Partners, and we want to maximize the amount of time we give you to plan and make sure we aren’t getting ahead of ourselves. To this end, we are delaying both the release and request for signed Commitment Forms/MOUs from Providers and Partners until the week of February 19th. We are encouraged by several conversations that have occurred in the last couple of days that the outstanding issues will be resolved and we will have more clarity on the release of earned funds to our region.
Throughout our 101 sessions, we noted that Collaborative membership was due on February 22nd. It’s our intent to extend this deadline until late March providing ample time for Collaboratives to develop and partners to be clear on commitments.
As always, please continue to reach out to BHT staff if you have any questions. We look forward to sharing updates as soon as we can.
-Alison Carl White, BHT Executive Director
To support this vision of whole-person care, which connects health care and social determinants together, we landed on our Collaborative setting model to both organize the work and distribute funds.
Read MoreBHT is excited to be piloting the Pathways Hub model for Care Coordination in our region. Check out these informational videos to learn more.
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