ASPE Issue Brief

By: Kenneth Finegold, Kelsey Avery, Bula Ghose, and Caryn Marks  

Jess Wilhelm, MASocial & Scientific Systems, Inc. Natasha Bryant, MALeadingAge Janet P. Sutton, PhDSocial & Scientific Systems, Inc. Robyn Stone, ScDLeadingAge

This Issue Brief describes the strategies used by four states--Louisiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Illinois--to improve the link between Medicaid and housing services for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health conditions.

ASPE Issue Brief: Opioid Abuse in the U.S. and HHS Actions to Address Opioid-Drug Related Overdoses and Deaths (PDF-12 Pages)

This Issue Brief highlights the efforts of four states--Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee--to facilitate provider-level coordination for Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health disorders. It describes the financing strategies and specific mechanisms that states are using to improve care coordination.

Brenda Spillman Urban Institute December 2014 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format: http://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-report/why-do-elders-receiving-informal-home-care-transition-long-stay-nursing-home-residency (47 PDF pages)

By Munira Z. Gunja and Emily R. Gee

This brief is one in a series exploring issues related to the implementation of evidence-based interventions. It describes several constructs that can be used to describe, monitor, and facilitate implementation. It also describes how to apply these constructs in several ways, including data collection to monitor progress and developing an implementation monitoring plan.

This brief is one in a series exploring issues related to the implementation of evidence-based interventions. It describes the basics of readiness using the R=MC2 (Readiness = Motivation × General Capacity and Intervention-Specific Capacity) heuristic, examines some of the policy implications of readiness, and identifies directions for future research.