A new role for primary care teams in the United States after “Obamacare:” Track and improve health insurance coverage rates

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• Alternative Title:
  Fam Med Community Health
• Personal Author:
  DeVoe, Jennifer ; Angier, Heather ; Hoopes, Megan ; Gold, Rachel
• Description:
  Maintaining continuous health insurance coverage is important. With recent expansions in access to coverage in the United States after "Obamacare," primary care teams have a new role in helping to track and improve coverage rates and to provide outreach to patients. We describe efforts to longitudinally track health insurance rates using data from the electronic health record (EHR) of a primary care network and to use these data to support practice-based insurance outreach and assistance. Although we highlight a few examples from one network, we believe there is great potential for doing this type of work in a broad range of family medicine and community health clinics that provide continuity of care. By partnering with researchers through practice-based research networks and other similar collaboratives, primary care practices can greatly expand the use of EHR data and EHR-based tools targeting improvements in health insurance and quality health care.
• Keywords:
  Affordable Care Act Electronic Health Records Insurance, Health
• Source:
  Fam Med Community Health. 4(4):63-67
• Pubmed ID:
  28966926
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5617364
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U18DP006116/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; R01 CA204267/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HS024270/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/ ; U18 DP006116/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 CA181452/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d303b40c2817e068860d0fa73570fa2e6869ba10d6e750041aa60476c95a39c8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/48953/cdc_48953_DS1.pdf
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