Am J Med Qual 2022 Mar 11. Epub 2022 Mar 11.
Department of Population Health Sciences, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UT Health San Antonio, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, TX Clinical Excellence Division, CHRISTUS Health, San Antonio, TX Department of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, TX Department of Family and Community Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, TX.
In 2011, Texas received federal approval of the 1115 Healthcare Transformation waiver, which went to support the Texas Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP) incentivizing the transformation of service delivery practices which included expanded coverage of preventive cancer screenings. There is limited evidence that quality improvement initiatives stemming from DSRIP improve cancer screening outcomes for the Medicaid, low-income, and uninsured (MLIU) patient population. The present the results of a quality initiative to improve breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates for MLIU patients receiving primary care at an academic medical center. Read More