Driving Improvement in Health and Health Care: Setting Metrics for Medicaid Outcomes

Warren P Newton

doi:10.18043/ncm.78.1.51

Driving Improvement in Health and Health Care: Setting Metrics for Medicaid Outcomes

N C Med J. 2017 Jan-Feb;78(1):51-54. doi: 10.18043/ncm.78.1.51.

Author

Warren P Newton¹

Affiliation

¹ senior policy advisor, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina; professor, Department of Family Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Warren_newton@med.unc.edu.

PMID: 28115568
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.78.1.51

Abstract

Clinical performance metrics are the foundation of the design and ultimate performance of North Carolina's Medicaid reform plan. This commentary describes the general approach of the state's Department of Health and Human Services in setting metrics, including goals, assumptions, and starting principles.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care*
Humans
Medicaid*
North Carolina
United States