Open AccessOpportunities for and Perceptions of Integrating Community Health Workers Via the Affordable Care Act: Medicaid Health Homes
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Lockhart,
DeAnne Turner,
Dinorah Martinez-Tyson,
Julie A. Baldwin,
Stephanie L. Marhefka
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of public health management and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1550-5022
pISSN - 1078-4659
DOI - 10.1097/phh.0000000000001118
Subject(s) - thematic analysis , medicaid , health care , nursing , clarity , qualitative research , public health , medicine , psychology , sociology , political science , law , social science , biochemistry , chemistry
The Affordable Care Act created opportunities for innovative, cost-saving measures to improve health care access. Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who have a close understanding of the communities they serve. States that expanded Medicaid coverage could also create Medicaid Health Homes (MHHs)-virtual health care networks-to coordinate care for people with chronic conditions. New York was the second state to implement MHHs and gave the option to include CHWs as part of the health care team.