ME gets $33M to test health care changes
The federal government will give Maine up to $33 million to implement and study health-care system improvements over the next three and a half years.
Maine is among six states to receive money from a $250 million pool of funds available to states under the Affordable Care Act, according to an announcement Thursday by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
Those funds will target new state-level changes to reduce health care costs in Medicare and Medicaid. Medicaid makes up about a third of the state's budget and faces shortfalls in Maine and many other states.
The funding in Maine will support the creation of "accountable care organizations" comprised of groups of health providers that have incentives for coordinating care and that ties payments to quality metrics rather than services provided.
Maine is one of six states to receive such funding under the model testing portion of the State Innovation Models Initiative. The other states are Oregon, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Several other states received funding to support earlier stages of health reform planning through pre-testing awards and model design awards.
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