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Research Brief: Making the Business Case for Self-Directed Care
How does self-direction alter service use patterns, and is it more expensive than traditional treatment models? To find out, HSRI researchers and colleagues looked at data from 45 participants in a program in Pennsylvania - comparing the amounts, types, and costs of mental health services used by people before and after they began participating in self-direction. This Research Brief summarizes the results of the new research. The study – conducted by a team from … Read More
Date: 06/2019
Author(s): HSRI
Making Self-Direction a Reality: Using Individual Budgets to Promote Choice, Control, and Equity
Self-direction is a fast-growing platform for the delivery of community-based services and supports to people who need long-term care, and many states are choosing to use individual budgeting to make it a reality. Basing budget amounts on assessed need can help ensure that people have equal access to services across a service population. To better understand the methods that states use to create individual budgets, the benefits and risks of these approaches, and their level … Read More
Date: 06/2019
Author(s): Jami Petner-Arrey, Yoshi Kardell, Colleen Kidney
Promoting Engagement on Healthcare Transparency Sites
The rising costs and complexities of healthcare insurance and services can make it challenging for people to understand issues and confidently make decisions about the coverage and care they want, need and can afford. Healthcare transparency websites can help address this, and HSRI provides some best practices for promoting consumer engagement with these tools. … Read More
Date: 06/2019
Author(s): HSRI Population Health Team
North Dakota Behavioral Health Vision 2020: 2019 Strategic Goals
HSRI is supporting the North Dakota Behavioral Health Planning Council to engage in coordinated, data-driven system transformation activities based on the recommendations from the 2018 Behavioral Health System Study. This document outlines the 2019 strategic goals selected as part of that work. … Read More
Date: 01/2019
Author(s): HSRI
North Dakota Behavioral Health Vision 20/20: Survey Results
In December 2018, we surveyed North Dakotans to understand which strategic goals they saw as having the highest priority for the behavioral health system in the state. In all, 570 people from across North Dakota took the survey. This report presents the results. … Read More
Date: 01/2019
Author(s): HSRI