Louisiana Healthcare Connections, Inc.

Louisiana Healthcare Connections, Inc. is a for-profit health insurance company that provides managed care services to Medicaid beneficiaries in Louisiana. Through a subaward from Washington University, Louisiana Healthcare Connections collaborated on a project providing oversight and management of a basic needs navigation program for members with type 2 diabetes.

The subawards were funded through Washington University's prime awards from the federal government. Louisiana Healthcare Connections' scope of work included designating a main contact, coordinating project activities, attending meetings, sharing patient data, assisting with navigator training, providing input on the study design and intervention, coordinating approvals, sharing member contact information for recruitment, delivering the navigation intervention, overseeing quality control, capturing and sharing relevant data, ensuring timely provision of patient data for consenting participants, providing process and outcome data on participant engagement, translating study materials, estimating costs, collaborating on dissemination, and assisting with reporting. The navigation intervention was delivered over a 6 month period to 50 randomly assigned diabetes patients in one subaward, and to 250 patients in another. Through these subawards, Louisiana Healthcare Connections collaborated with Washington University researchers to test and implement a basic needs navigation program for Medicaid members with diabetes.