March 1, 2002
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Between 1995 and 1997, the HMO Group, (now the Alliance of Community Health Plans), New Brunswick, N.J. worked to improve tobacco prevention and cessation activities at the Alliance's member health plans.
February 1, 2000
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The National Association of School Nurses, Scarborough, Maine, examined the potential collaboration of managed care organizations and school health services.
June 4, 2006
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Program Result
Improving Asthma Care for Children was a national program of RWJF to test new approaches to managing asthma in children receiving care through Medicaid managed care - sometimes paid for through the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
June 1, 2000
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Boston, coordinated a pilot project to integrate medical, mental health, social support and non-traditional services for children and adolescents who had serious emotional disturbances within a traditionally organized system of care.
June 1, 2000
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Between January 1996 and June 1997, the State of Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Springfield, Ill. carried out a project to support the development of a managed care system of services for foster care children-all of whom are wards of the state-who needed behavioral health services.
December 1, 2009
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Journal Article
A parent mentoring program which matches parents of minority, asthmatic children with trained parent mentors similar to themselves seems to be an inexpensive and effective way to help families manage their kids' asthma. There can actually be a net savings associated with families that extensively participate in such a program.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result
Children's Hospital in Boston planned and implemented the Pediatric Alliance for Coordinated Care, a clinical service delivery model that facilitates coordinated, community-based, family-centered care for children.
October 1, 2002
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Program Result
From 1999 to 2001, researchers at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute evaluated two projects that were part of the Kaiser Permanente Cares for Kids Demonstration Projects.
October 25, 2002
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The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing conducted planning activities for its State Children's Health Insurance Program, called Child Health Plan Plus.
December 20, 2001
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Program Result
The Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) of the University of California, San Francisco, disseminated a May 1997 institute report entitled Troubling Signs: Severely Ill Children in Employment-Based Managed Care Plans in California.