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Health Disparities Council Meeting: Legislative Working Group Recommendations September 14, 2011. Members:. Alice Coombs Sara Orozco Kara Cotich Roxanne Reddington-Wilde Gloria Craven Vicente Sanabria Mary Crotty Mimi Stamer Robin DaSilva Aliza Wasserman

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  1. Health Disparities Council Meeting: Legislative Working Group RecommendationsSeptember 14, 2011

  2. Members: Alice Coombs Sara Orozco Kara Cotich Roxanne Reddington-Wilde Gloria Craven Vicente Sanabria Mary Crotty Mimi Stamer Robin DaSilva Aliza Wasserman Durrell Fox Thank you: Lois Johnson Secretary Bigby Pam Jones Senator Fargo Paul Mendis Represenative Rushing Stacey Ober Suzanne Cray

  3. Two Meetings: • August 26, 2011 • September 8, 2011

  4. Our Goal: • Analysis of the Governor’s Health Care Payment Reform Bill. H. 1849 with a specific goal of advocating for recommendations to address ethnic and racial health disparities.

  5. Payment and system delivery reform legislation should incorporate and/or address the following General Principles:

  6. General Principles: 1. Physical and mental health are both an integral part of a person’s health and well-being. 2. Legislation must address health disparities for both its impact on access to care and clinical outcomes of care provided.

  7. General Principles: 3. Payment and system delivery reform should not continue or exacerbate the system inequities that lead to health disparities. 4. The legislation should explicitly include addressing health disparities as a priority.

  8. General Principles: 5. In order to ensure that global or other risk-based payments don’t encourage adverse selection or redlining of patients, especially those with complex health needs, we should require adequate risk adjustment, including for socio-economic factors such as race, ethnicity, disability, housing, income level, primary language usage, educational attainment, and gender orientation, etc.

  9. General Principles: 6. Non-clinician services contribute to health and wellness and legislation should address how to support and capture the value of these types of community services. Non-clinical providers, like CHW and patient/systems navigators, should be explicitly integrated into payment reform since these services have a direct impact on clinical outcomes and the cost of care.

  10. General Principles: 7. Reducing provider payment disparities and improving market function must be key objectives in any payment and system reform effort.

  11. General Principles: 8. Payment methods should reward the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.

  12. General Principles: 9. Quality benchmarks and ACO system design evaluations must measure for continued improvement in reducing health disparities.

  13. General Principles: 10. Rationing of care for those with serious health disparities based on alternative payment methodologies that shift risk must be prevented.

  14. General Principles: 11. Assessments or monitoring of state health planning/system capacity must address the impact on health disparities, including ensuring adequate access to primary care providers and behavioral health providers and providers of all types with cultural and linguistic competence.

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