FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY - CONTINUED TRANSFORMING CLINICAL PRACTICE INITIATIVE
representatives with MCOs experiencing technical claims adjudication issues.
AACHC supported CMS's TCPI-PTN Grantee, "Practice Innovation Institute," and CVN’s Healthy Communities OPPORTUNITIES In 2019, an Azara risk stratification module was Collaborative Network. implemented based on criteria developed by participating health centers. Late 2019, the HIE began sending facility admit/transfer/discharge alerts to ACTIVITIES Azara for upload into DRVS. The Transition of Care • Live group trainings and webinars • Health center peer group on-site meetings and module and daily patient planning reports provide these alerts to clinicians to better manage patient regular teleconferences • Annual Invaluable Medical & Dental Assistants and care. Community Health Workers recognition event Looking forward to 2020, AACHC will leverage these tools to measure and report clinical/quality and AHCCCS 2019 financial value of primary care delivered through AACHC assisted health centers with the agency’s Arizona’s health centers. contracted health plans to ensure health centers’ concerns were addressed, including the transition Using technology-driven population health to AHCCCS Complete Care (effective October 1, management and analytics, AACHC will support 2019), the Annual Reconciliation process, and timely health center clinical transformation for improved payment for billable FQHC services. AACHC has on- integrated primary care. The use of DRVS will be going meetings that bring together health center expanded with the implementation of enrollment and claims data modules.
GRANTS AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT RURAL HEALTH
• Rural Health Opioid Program (previously funded) • Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program (previously funded) • Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Implementation - New funding for a multi-year cooperative agreement aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD), in rural communities at the highest risk for SUD. This funding will help to strengthen and expand SUD/OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery service delivery in highrisk rural communities. AACHC will be working in partnership with Sonoran Prevention Works and existing local partnerships to launch communitybased initiatives in the rural designation areas of Mohave County, Graham County, and Gila County, which are amongst the most impacted rural counties in Arizona.
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ORAL HEALTH
• Oral Health Integration within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net - New funding for a multi-year cooperative agreement whereby AACHC is one of four coordination sites for the Western region of the country to improve access to and delivery of comprehensive, quality oral health care for children, 0–17 years of age, by testing and establishing models of care. • Office of Oral Health Healthy Smiles Healthy Bodies Survey - Funding to conduct a survey of preschool and third grade children in Arizona using a standardized cross-sectional, openmouth screening developed by the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors and conducted by trained dental staff. • Oral Health 2020 State Coalition (previously funded) • National Oral Health Innovation and Integration Network (NOHIIN) (previously funded) • Serves as State Representative for Arizona (previously funded)
