Preliminary Results from the Hawaii Integrated Healthcare Project II

摘要

In the 1980's the basic tenants of the integrated healthcare model were developed and subsequently evaluated as part of the Hawaii Medicaid Study (Cummings, Dorken, Pallak & Henke, 1993; Pallak, Cummings, Dorken & Henke, 1994). This prospective study of 36,000 Medicaid eligible patients and 90,000 Federal employees living on O'ahu demonstrated that providing quality behavioral care may drastically reduce medical utilization rates and total healthcare costs by as much as 8 million dollars per year (Cummings, 1997). The Hawaii Medicaid Study was the first step in exploring the possibilities of an integrated healthcare model.