Toolkit Discusses Methods For Reducing Racial, Ethnic Health Disparities Among Medicaid Managed Care Beneficiaries

January 13, 2007 – 12:10 am | posted in Medicare

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit,Center for Health Care Strategies: The toolkit examines the experiences of a workgroup — comprising 10 Medicaid health plans and a state primary care case management association — that adopted strategies to identify and address racial and ethnic health disparities in birth outcomes and immunizations, asthma care and diabetes care (Martin, “Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Medicaid Managed Care Toolkit,” January 2007).

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