We design and implement solutions to advance the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and those that have been disenfranchised by the health care system. Our work is focused on four areas.
Working directly with health care service providers and payers on quality and practice transformation, we transform service delivery and performance by:
- Redesigning systems of care
- Supporting practice transformation
- Educating and training payers and providers
- Delivering technical assistance
- Providing new, innovative tools
- Conducting applied research and evaluation/analytics
Explore our work in transforming service delivery below.

Equipping States to Meet the Needs of People with IDD
Public health agencies struggle to ensure adequate support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode Island turned to Altarum to help them modernize their IDD systems. This decision enhanced support services, improving outcomes for the IDD community.
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Helping HRSA Build Pediatric Emergency & Disaster Readiness
Learn how Altarum is helping HRSA improve pediatric emergency readiness through the Regional Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN). PPN provides hospitals with education, technical support, and expert access to ensure life-saving pediatric care during disasters. High pediatric readiness can drastically reduce child mortality rates.
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Mentoring Initiative Fosters Recovery Through Peer Support
As part of COSSUP’s peer mentoring initiative, Altarum connects people to substance-use support services across urban, rural, and tribal communities. Peer support transforms lives by offering alternatives to emergency services and justice system diversion, filling care gaps and directing individuals toward treatment rather than incarceration.
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Strengthening State Capacity in Care for Dually Eligible Individuals
Through expert-led initiatives, flexible approaches, and hands-on support, Altarum Medicare-Medicaid Services for States helped states enhance care quality and program efficiency. These improvements supported health, wellness, and independent living for dually eligible individuals across several states in 2024.
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Partnering with States to Advance Better Programs for Individuals Eligible for Both Medicare and Medicaid
Altarum Medicare-Medicaid Services for States (AMMS) was created in 2022 to meet an identified need to bolster state capacity to build better programs for dually eligible individuals.
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Enabling States to Support the Direct Care Workforce and Those Who Need Their Services
Altarum partnered with ADvancing States to provide a flexible online “one stop shop” platform to meet the specific needs of LTSS stakeholders—states, care providers, and care recipients.
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Achieving the Quadruple Aim for Defense Health Agency Beneficiaries
Altarum has the honor of helping the DHA achieve the Quadruple Aim—enhancing patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and improving the work life of health care providers—via the knowledge gained through administering three health care surveys to beneficiaries.
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Supporting Public Health Emergency (PHE) Unwinding in Kentucky
Altarum provides proactive operational planning support to help states prepare for changes in Medicaid operations and avoid any potential gaps in coverage for beneficiaries as the PHE ends.
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Helping Small Practices Navigate Value-Based Reimbursement While Improving Patient Care
Through funding from CMS, Altarum provides free, customized technical assistance to small, rural, and underserved practices on complying with the Quality Payment Program.
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Helping Primary Care Physicians Provide Safe, Comprehensive Pain Management to Older Adults
By providing education and resources to front-line primary care physicians, we’re working to reduce the potential for substance use disorder and identify seniors who may need assistance.
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Increasing Access to Depression Treatment for Rural Adolescents
Learn how we are reducing barriers through a variety of strategies, from providing physician continuing education programs to creating a pediatric telehealth network.
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Direct Care Careers Center, A Multi-Purpose State Workforce Management Tool
An online platform enabling states to better understand, manage, and support their direct service workers and providers.
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Improving Access to Veterans Affairs Health Care Services for Women Veterans
Altarum is fielding a survey designed to measure the barriers women Veterans face in receiving health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Revealing the Impact of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Telehealth Support Services
Our evaluation of the AAP’s telehealth support program is helping to lay the groundwork for a more effective and sustainable model of pediatric telehealth.
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