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In addition to directly assisting clients to solve business problems, Bailit Health Purchasing staff conduct research and author publications to assist the broader community of health and human services purchasers and regulators. A sample of published articles and reports is available below.


 

Toward Innovative Models of Health Care and Financing: Matchmaking in Maryland
Kate Bazinsky, Laura Herrera and Joshua Sharfstein
The Journal of the American Medical Association - April 2012
Link to article
 

Stabilizing MassHealth Funding: Options to Break the Recurring Cycle of Expansion and Contraction
Written by Beth Waldman, Robert Seifert and Kate Nordahl
Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute - February 2012
Link to article
 

Key Design Elements of Shared-Savings Payment Arrangements
Written by Michael Bailit and Christine Hughes
The Commonwealth Fund - August 2011
Link to article
 

The ACA´s Impact on Medicaid: Changes and Opportunities for MassHealth
Written by Beth Waldman and Kate Nordahl
The Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute - July 2011
Link to article
 

Payment and Delivery Reform Action Briefs
Written by Michael Bailit
Published by Catalyst for Payment Reform - June 2011
Link to article
 

Multipayer Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation Guided by the Chronic Care Model
Written by Robert Gabbay, Michael Bailit et al.
Published by The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety - June 2011
Link to article
 

Assessing the Financial Health of Medicaid Managed Care Plans and the Quality of Patient Care They Provide
Written by Michael McCue and Michael Bailit
Published by The Commonwealth Fund - June 15, 2011
Link to article
 

Payment Rate Brief
Written by Michael Bailit
Published by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative - March 30, 2011
Link to article
 

Monitoring Medi-Cal: Recommendations for Measuring the Performance of California´s Medicaid Program
Written by Beth Waldman and Michael Bailit
Published by the California HealthCare Foundation - January 2011     Link to article
 

Physician Payment Reform
Written by Michael Bailit and Christine Hughes
Published in National Business Coalition on Health Value-based Purchasing Guide - January 2011    Link to article
 

Rhode Island´s Novel Experiment To Rebuild Primary Care From The Insurance Side
Written by Chris Koller, Troy Brennan and Michael Bailit
Published in Health Affairs - May 2010     Link to article
 

Value–Based Purchasing and Consumer Engagement Strategies in State Employee Health Plans: A Purchaser Guide
Written by Joshua Slen, Michael Bailit and Marge Houy
Published April 2010     View PDF (1MB)
 

Massachusetts Health Care Reform
Written by Beth Waldman
Published April 7, 2010     View PDF (641K)
 

Covering Children and their Parents - The Massachusetts Model and Implications for National Health Reform
Written by Beth Waldman
Published December 2009    View PDF (672K)
 

Using Insurance Standards and Policy Levers to Build a High Performance Health System
Written by Michael Bailit and Christopher Koller
Published November 6, 2009    View PDF (749K)
 

Health Plan Capabilities to Support Value Based Benefit Design
Written by Marge Houy, Michael Joseph, and Laura Jacobus-Kantor
Published October 2009    View PDF (1.1 MB)
 

Value-Based Benefit Design: A Purchaser Guide
Written by Marge Houy
Published September 2009    View PDF (696K)
 

Pay-for-Performance in the Medi-Cal Managed Care and Healthy Families Programs: Findings and Recommendations
Written by Michael Bailit and Christine Hughes
Published August 2009    View PDF (708K)
 

The Purchaser Guide to the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Written by Michael Bailit and Christine Hughes
Published July 9, 2008    View PDF (568K)
 

The State Children´s Health Insurance Program in Massachusetts: Achievements, Challenges and Implications for Health Reform
Written by Beth Waldman
Published April 2007    View PDF (264K)
 

Physician Pay-for-Performance in Medicaid: A Guide for States
Written by Michael Bailit and Mary Beth Dyer along with Karen LLanos and Joanie Rothstein of the Center for Health Care Strategies
Published April 2007     View PDF (400K)
 

Purchaser Guide to Value-driven Health Care
Written by Michael Bailit, Marge Houy and Michael Joseph
Published February 2007    View Article
 

Understanding the Influence of Publicly Traded Health Plans on Medicaid Managed Care
Written by Michael Bailit and Mary Beth Dyer
Published November 2006    View Article
 

Incentives and Rewards Best Practices Primer:
Lessons Learned from Early Pilots

Written by Michael Bailit, Mary Beth Dyer and Michael Joseph
Published July 2006    View PDF (288k)
 

Putting Quality to Work: Rewarding Plan Performance in
Medi-Cal Managed Care

Written by Michael Bailit and Mary Beth Dyer
Published May 2006    View Article
 

As Employers Pull Their Money Out: The Failure of Health Care Cost Control
Written by Michael Bailit
Published June 21, 2005     View Article
 

Beyond Bankable Dollars: Establishing a Business Case for Improving Health Care
Written by Michael Bailit and Mary Beth Dyer.
Published September 2004     View PDF (218K)
 

State Budget Cuts and Medicaid Managed Care: Case Studies of Four States
Written by Laurie Burgess and Michael Bailit along with independent consultant Trisha Roddy.
Published June 2004     View PDF (358K)
 

Financial Performance Incentives for Quality: The State of the Art
Health care purchasers are increasingly pursuing how financial incentives can help to motivate quality improvement activity. This monograph provides an overview of a quality incentive-based approach to health care purchasing.
Published September 2002     View PDF (613K)
 

Ensuring Quality Providers: A Purchaser´s Toolkit for Using Incentives
Bailit staff have created a "how-to" toolkit for organizations interested in introducing quality incentives with health care providers.
Published May 2002     View PDF (508K)
 

Ensuring Quality Health Plans: A Purchaser´s Toolkit for Using Incentives
Bailit staff have created a "how-to" toolkit for organizations interested in introducing quality incentives with health plans.
Published March 2002     View PDF (464K)
 

Provider Incentive Models for Improving Quality of Care
Provider quality incentives are an important component of value-based purchasing. They create a business case for providers to invest their time and effort in health care quality improvement. This monograph identifies the range of provider incentive models that sponsoring organizations should consider.
Published March 2002     View PDF (3,850K)
 

 




May 22, 2012
"Bundled Payments: Experience of 19 Initiatives" Wisconsin Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform
- Megan Burns

May 21, 2012 - Washington, DC
"Managing Expectations, Leading Change" National Association of Medicaid Directors
- Michael Bailit

March 14, 2012 - Boston, MA
"Stabilizing MassHealth Funding: Options to Break the Recurring Cycle of Expansion and Contraction" Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute
- Beth Waldman

February 9-10, 2012 - Merriam, KS
"Oral Health in the Medical Home" Funders Oral Health Policy Group
- Marge Houy