Learn About HQP's Program Through the Eyes of our Participants

Get a feel for how our program works by watching these video clips in which our participants describe their experiences.  Click here to watch.

HQP's Model is Vital to Medicare

Improving our nation's health insurance is important, but it doesn't begin to address the problems with our care delivery system that are driving up costs and resulting in poor outcomes.  With Medicare hurtling toward insolvency and preventable complications of chronic illness rampant, HQP's model of community-based advanced care management represents a breakthrough that can help address these root causes - right now.

Evaluators for the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration (MCCD) report that among a group of high-risk beneficiaries followed over several years, the HQP program reduced hospitalizations 24% (p=0.005) and lowered hospital costs $255 per person PER MONTH (more than $3,000 per person per year). [1]  The policy implications for Medicare are significant since 18.1% of ALL Medicare beneficiaries nationwide in 2003 were members of this risk group.

In another report by the same analysts, HQP's model was found to have significant cost savings across a wide variety of higher-risk groups and was the only MCCD program that significantly reduced deaths (p=0.036). [2]  More results will be published soon about the positive impact HQP's program has on health outcomes, but the opportunity for Medicare to address significant root causes of high cost and poor quality among chronically ill older adults using HQP's program is already clear.
 

[1]  http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/121609.brown.pdf  (active as or 1/15/2010)

[2]  Analyses of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration for the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network (MCCPRN), Report June 24, 2009, Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Randall Brown; Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

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CMS Provides a Short-term Extension to HQP while Considering Next Steps

Feb 22, 2010 - Recently, CMS issued HQP a short-term extension to continue providing services to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration.  The purpose of this extension is to sustain HQP's work with fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries while CMS considers how continued study of HQP's model could lead to helping chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries on a larger scale. Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz and Congressman Patrick Murphy were instrumental in collaborating with CMS on ways to advance this work.  The offices of Senators Casey and Specter also supported the review process.
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 "Community-based Advanced Care Management"

Research has proven that health outcomes for older adults can be improved through well-designed, well-implemented preventive interventions.  We don't lack evidence of what can work, we lack a system to reliably deliver it.  HQP's community-based advanced care management model provides a comprehensive set of evidence-based preventive services in an easily accessible way that is person-centered, longitudinal, adaptable to changing individual needs, and works in close collaboration with health care (especially primary care) providers.  Read more ...  

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IMPACT Award 2008

HQP was one of 8 organizations awarded GSK's IMPACT Award to "... nonprofits that are proactive, committed, and demonstrate a significant impact within their communities."  
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United Way of SEPA selects HQP as a Community Partner   

United Way of Southeastern PA has chosen HQP as one of its 137 Investing in Results community partners from among 550 agencies to apply.  

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