Preliminary Guidance Issued on States’ Option to Provide ‘Health Homes’ for Medicaid Enrollees with Chronic Conditions

A “health home” provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for establishing a person-centered system of care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the first in a series of planned letters to state Medicaid directors to provide preliminary guidance on implementing this health home provision of the law.…