| Exhibit 6.1. Workers' Compensation Health Initiative, continued. | |
| Second Round Grantees | |
| Lead Agency: | American Accreditation Health Care Commission |
| Project Name: | Development of a Performance Measurement Set for Workers' Compensation Managed Care Organizations |
| Grant Amount: | $393,638 |
| This project involves the development and pilot testing of a set of standard performance measures for workers' compensation managed care organizations. | |
| Lead Agency: | Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center |
| Project Name: | North Country On the Job Network: A Rural Coalition Accessing Medical Management for Injured Workers |
| Grant Amount: | $319,559 |
| Through a community-based coalition, a unique health care delivery model for management of injured workers in a rural region of upstate New York is being implemented and evaluated. | |
| Lead Agency: | Georgetown University Medical Center |
| Project Name: | Enhanced Case Management for Workers Covered Under the Federal Employees Compensation Act |
| Grant Amount: | $481,104 |
| This project involves the development and testing of a multifaceted case management model that enhances the approach currently used in the federal workers' compensation system. | |
| Lead Agency: | Institute for Research and Education, HealthSystem Minnesota |
| Project Name: | Evaluation of the Minnesota Health Partnership: Coordinated Health Care and Disability Management |
| Grant Amount: | $499,986 |
| This research study is evaluating the effectiveness of the Minnesota Health Partnership, an ongoing project aimed at establishing coordinated medical delivery and disability management. | |
| Lead Agency: | Maine Medical Assessment Foundation |
| Project Name: | Maine Workers' Compensation Health Care Improvement Initiative |
| Grant Amount: | $205,440 |
| This project involves the formation of a stakeholder study group, the design and development of a centralized state workers' compensation health care database, and the implementation and testing of a program for routine functional assessment in the workplace. | |
| Lead Agency: | New School for Social Research |
| Project Name: | Evaluating the Benefits of Enhanced Access to Medical Care for Patients at UNITE's Union Health Center. |
| Grant Amount: | $217,752 |
| This research project is evaluating the health care delivery and financing innovations recently established at New York City's Union Health Center by UNITE. | |
| Lead Agency: | New York Department of Civil Service |
| Project Name: | Evaluation of OneCard Rx Integrated Prescription Drug Program |
| Grant Amount: | $334,323 |
| This evaluation study is examining the impact of the recently initiated OneCard Rx program, which allows New York State employees to use a single prescription drug benefit plan for both workers' compensation and general (nonoccupational) health care. | |
| Lead Agency: | University of Colorado Health Sciences Center |
| Project Name: | Evaluation of the Acceptance and Use of ACOEM ACOEM Treatment Guidelines |
| Grant Amount: | $221,719 |
| This multistate, multiclinic study by researchers from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center is exploring clinicians' acceptance and use of the recently released American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine practice guidelines. | |