Sec. 6. Chronic care innovation centers
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Not later than October 1, 2016, the Secretary, acting through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall designate and provide core funding for not less than three Chronic Care Innovation Centers. The Secretary shall develop a process for entities seeking to become a Chronic Care Innovation Center, and shall ensure sufficient geographic representation among those entities selected. The main objectives of such Centers shall include the following: Improving the understanding of how to measure, monitor, and understand quality and efficiency for a patient population with substantial disease burden.
Rigorously examining alternative and innovative systems and strategies for efficiently improving quality and outcomes for common, serious, and chronic illnesses. Developing and applying improved methodologies for informing policymakers regarding heterogeneity in the effectiveness and safety of proposed interventions, and assessing barriers to the implementation of high-priority care. Studying organization and management practices that result in higher quality of care. Defining and improving quality of care for patients with the chronic diseases prevalent in primary care settings.
Understanding the influence of race, ethnicity, and cultural factors on access, quality, and outcomes (such as clinical, patient-centered, health care utilization, and costs). Evaluating new technology to enhance access to, and quality of care (such as telemedicine). Assessing the use of patient self-management and behavioral interventions as a means of improving outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with complex chronic conditions. Understanding how management of care is affected when patients have multiple chronic conditions in which evidence or recommended guidelines are lacking, conflict with, or complicate overall care management.
Characterizing coordination of care within and across healthcare systems, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq. ), the Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act, and private sector programs for veterans with complex chronic conditions. In order to be designated a Chronic Care Innovation Center under this section, each eligible entity must meet the following requirements: Develop and implement a sustained research agenda in the field of chronic care.
Collaborate with local schools of public health and universities to carry out its mission. Actively engage in the development of new, best practices for the delivery of care to the chronically ill. Actively engage in the development and routine updating of quality measures for the chronically ill. Have the ability to convene experts practiced in the needs of a chronically ill patient, including pharmacologists, psychiatrists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, rheumatologists, nutritionists and dieticians, social workers, and physical therapists.
Partner with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (including the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service), the medical community, medical schools, and public health departments through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Association of American Medical Colleges to routinely develop new, forward thinking, and evidence-based curricula that addresses the tremendous need for team-based care and chronic care management.
Such curricula shall include palliative medicine, chronic care management, leadership and team-based skills and planning, and leveraging technology as a care tool. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shall be responsible for oversight and evaluation of all Chronic Care Innovation Centers under this section. Not less frequently than every 3 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shall submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to Congress a report containing the findings of oversight and evaluations conducted under paragraph (1).
In order to carry out this section, the Secretary may contract with existing Centers of Innovation (COINs) of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service that meet the requirements described in subsection (c). There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.
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