MedAssurant Inc., a provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, said that Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) has selected it to provide advanced analytics to establish priorities and to inform best practices in healthcare delivery settings for Medicaid patients.
In a release, the Company said that it will apply its healthcare datasets and analytical platform to assist MHPA in conducting detailed research to address questions of comparative effectiveness, clinical quality and efficacy.
MHPA has recently launched its Center for Best Practices, an initiative directed toward assisting its members to identify and employ best practices to improve care for the Medicaid populations that they serve. MedAssurant said that MHPA and the Center for Best Practices have turned to it to leverage its extensive datasets and its research and analytics capabilities to support ongoing efforts to understand the quality and effectiveness of care delivered to Medicaid patients, the barriers that limit the quality and effectiveness of that care, and the strategies that are most likely to enable MHPA members to overcome those barriers. Through MedAssurant's analyses, the Center for Best Practices will be better able to develop and promote effective practices in the clinical and operations areas of Medicaid health plans.
'Our collaboration with MedAssurant is part of MHPA's initiative to promote efficient and high-quality healthcare that is informed by robust clinical and quality data,' said Thomas L. Johnson, MHPA's President and CEO. 'MedAssurant's expertise in healthcare data analysis and their extensive datasets make them the ideal partner for providing the Center with the tools to achieve MHPA's goal of ensuring access to better healthcare.'
Cary Sennett, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer of MedAssurant, added, 'The Medicaid population is an important focus for MedAssurant. The expansion of Medicaid through healthcare reform, as well as from the forces of the recent economic environment, is driving significant focus on this important group. MedAssurant is delighted to have the opportunity to work with MHPA and the Center for Best Practices to bring data and insight to their efforts and their member plans' efforts to more effectively address the complex needs of this extremely important population.'
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