Success Stories

University-state partnerships have demonstrated remarkable success across the spectrum of healthcare administration and policy-making. Many of these successes have been well-established by partnerships over the past two decades — and highlight both the need for these partnerships and the importance of university contributions. Some of these success stories are highlighted below. If you have a success story that you would like to share, please contact us.

Featured Success Story

Ohio
The Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey (OMAS) provides data critical to measure the impact of health care reform over time.

The survey’s questionnaire and methods setup enables analytical modeling in the areas of health care access, health care utilization, health status, health behaviors, and determinants of health for adults and children.

The MassHealth Pharmacy Program: A National Model for Generic Drug Usage in Medicaid Populations

MassHealth has become a national model for the provision of comprehensive access to pharmacy services for Medicaid members, using a cost-effective and evidence-based approach to clinical decision-making.

Disability Evaluation Services program helps Medicaid members access the disability-related services they need.

UMass Medical School, through its Disability Evaluation Services program, offers streamlined, high-quality, and cost-effective disability determination services for state agencies seeking to improve their benefit eligibility services for people with disabilities.

UMass Medical School partners with MassHealth to support children and adults with complex medical needs.

UMass Medical School's Community Case Management services can vastly improve the quality of life for individuals with complex medical conditions and the families that support them; without them, more than a thousand children and adults in Massachusetts could be forced to leave their families and live in institutions to get the care they need.

Healthcare Access Initiative increases Ohio Medicaid recipients' access to interdisciplinary team-based healthcare providers

Based on the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the resulting Medicaid expansion in over half of the states, many state Medicaid programs have redoubled efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative strategies to attract, train, and retain healthcare practitioners to serve this expanding patient population. Since 2012, Ohio has used its existing state-university research model to partner with its Colleges of Medicine and Health Sciences to address this challenge.

Health Professions Data Warehouse enables policymakers to see and quickly understand health professional data

To identify and analyze Ohio’s current and future workforce capacity, the Health Professions Data Warehouse (HPDW) project’s purpose is to build an analytical engine that provides state health and human service agencies the technology to assess and forecast healthcare provider supply/demand, distribution, impact, and retention related to Ohio’s overall Medicaid healthcare workforce needs.

The Ohio Minds Matter collaborative addresses the complex behavioral healthcare needs of many children on Medicaid.

To evaluate and improve the prescribing patterns of atypical antipsychotics and other psychotropic medications to the youngest members of the Medicaid population, The Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center partners with the state of Ohio’s BEACON (Best Evidence Advancing Child health in Ohio Now!) program to create new approaches to improve health outcomes of children with complex behavioral healthcare needs.

Home and Community-Based Services Policy Lab aims to give stakeholders a better understanding of population health and costs.

UMass Medical School partnered with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs in 2012 to develop a customized data solution to analyze longitudinal data sets with the goal of determining the value of home and community-based services provided to an elderly population.

Academic consortium advances the science and practice of health care for individuals and populations involved with the criminal justice system

The University of Massachusetts Medical School launched the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health in 2007, which attracted more than 200 participants from 20 states and 21 academic institutions. The success of this conference, and the conferences to follow, validated the need for academic-correctional health collaborations, as well as the need for increased support for criminal justice health care programs across the country.