New HCBS Promising Practice

CMS has posted a new HCBS Promsing Practice to the CMS website entitled, "Lessons Learned from Using a Health Information Technology Program that Combines Claims-Level Data with Service-Level Data". It can be found at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/promisingpractices/downloads/medicaiddata.pdf. A list of all the HCBS Promising Practices can be found at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PromisingPractices/HCBSPPR/list.asp#TopOfPage. This new report describes how Medicaid claims data can be combined with service-level data to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of services provided in community mental health centers (CMHCs). It describes how CMHCs in three States have used a particular system, Service Process Quality Management (SPQM), to improve quality and achieve cost savings.