Build Capacity
Strategies to promote stronger, more comprehensive systems of care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs.
Printable verson (PDF)In addition to strategies that focus on ways to insure more children, enhance insurance benefits, or fund new services, states are also developing innovative ways to finance initiatives that strengthen the existing system. For example, states have developed strategies to procure services in ways that improve quality or delivery of care. These methods expand access to existing services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), or create capacity where none existed.
States have used their purchasing power to build capacity and expand access to quality care through financing or support of:
- Quality-focused managed care purchasing agreements;
- Specialty managed care plans;
- Primary care case management and fee-for-service payment enhancements;
- Medical home support;
- Disease management programs;
- Consumer/family-directed care models;
- Parent and Peer Navigation Programs
- Telemedicine and other capacity-building services;
- Youth transition services;
- Outreach and enrollment strategies.
