Programs & Initiatives

AccessCare works to improve the quality of medical care and provide cost savings through a variety of evidence-based programs and initiatives:

• Asthma, Diabetes, and Gastroenteritis Disease Management: Decreasing emergency room visits and hospital admissions by providing practice management guidelines, increasing the appropriate use of medications, and educating patients and caregivers.
• Case Management for High Cost/High Risk Patients: Targeting patients who have experienced a significant increase in medical costs or emergency department/hospital visits and those at greatest risk with care management follow-up, outreach and education.
• Emergency Department Usage: Reducing costly emergency room visits through care management follow-up, outreach, and education to encourage patients to visit primary care providers.
• High Pharmacy Usage: Working with providers and patients to encourage usage of the voluntary Prescription Advantage List to control rising pharmacy costs.
• Polypharmacy Assisted Living Facility Project: Enlisting local pharmacists to work with local care managers and physicians to review complex drug regimens and make recommendations to patients.
• IMPACC (Improving Pediatric Access through Collaborative Care): Improving care for children with special health care needs by developing connections between the subspecialty care location and medical home of the patient; strengthening pediatric subspecialty capacity and improving care coordination through case management; and establishing models of early intervention and best practices of care.
• Dental Varnishings: Reducing the incidence of early childhood caries by training medical providers to provide fluoride varnishings to high-risk children under age three.
• Infrastructure and Systems Improvements: Developing Internet-based case management systems, hand-held computers with prescription writing applications, and other solutions to help primary care providers collect data and track clinical resources.