Parent-identified opportunities for improving asthma care for children insured by Medicaid following implementation of statewide Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood asthma is common and associated with extensive racial, ethnic and socioeconomic healthcare inequities and health disparities. Approximately 50% of children with asthma are insured by Medicaid in the U.S. and states have increasingly implemented Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models in their Medicaid programs, but little is known about the effects of ACOs on pediatric asthma quality of care, utilization, and disparities. Seventeen new ACOs were implemented in Massachusetts in 2018. Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments were provided to ACOs that could be used to improve outcomes for chronic diseases, such as asthma, through quality measures, enhanced care coordination, and community health worker staffing. This qualitative study explored caregiver exper

SUBMITTER: Goff SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12682864 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature