Spotlight:  Innovative Health Care Delivery Landscape of Maryland

Health care delivery is rapidly changing in response to numerous State and federal policy initiatives, in particular the Affordable Care Act.  Practice transformation is making forward progress in health care reform by promoting high-quality care that is coordinated, patient-centered, and more efficient.  The goal of practice transformation is to shift the focus from quantity of care delivered to improved health outcomes and coordinated care delivery.  Spotlight:  Innovative Health Care Delivery Landscape of Maryland overviews the Maryland Multi-Payor Patient Centered Medical Home Program, the CareFirst PCMH Program, and Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 Awareness and Support Program.  It also includes information on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, which is intended to assist providers in achieving practice transformation to align with the innovative strategies of the Affordable Care Act and MACRA.