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- Title
A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Speech Therapy Services to Children Within a Medicaid Managed Care Plan: "A Pay for Quality Speech Therapy Incentive Program".
- Authors
Calhoun, Rose Taylor; Emerson, Patricia; Ivey, Michelle; Batsell, Randy; Giardino, Angelo
- Abstract
AIM: To improve outcomes of speech therapy for children through better assessment and development of therapy with home and family reinforcement between therapy sessions. Objective: To describe one non-profit Medicaid Managed Care health plan's quality improvement (QI) initiative that achieved statistically significant increase in speech therapy home exercise and evaluation by Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs). Design: A Pay for Quality Speech Therapy Incentive Program based on a clinical record review each sixmonth measurement period with change in reimbursement rate based on clinical record review scores. Population: Twenty Texas Children's Health Plan (TCHP) contracted speech therapy companies caring for Medicaid and CHIP enrolled children in Harris, Jefferson, and contiguous counties.
- Subjects
SPEECH therapy for children; MANAGED care programs; TREATMENT effectiveness; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; MEDICARE reimbursement
- Publication
Journal of Managed Care Nursing, 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3, p31
- ISSN
2374-359X
- Publication type
Article