The work of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Pillar Project focuses on decreasing the leading preventable causes of illness and death among New Hampshire citizens through collaboration, evidence-based information, and sound policy recommendations. Our aim is to strengthen the public health system, integrate population health and clinical care systems, and work towards increased health and well-being of all New Hampshire citizens.

In 2012, the NH Citizens Health Initiative will continue to work to promote the design of payment systems that reflect our public and personal health goals. We believe that thoughtful design of payment systems, constructed by a multi-stakeholder teams of NH healthcare leaders and based on the practices of the best performing systems, is critical in gaining consensus and implementation.

The NH Citizens Health Initiative Multi-Stakeholder Medical Home Pilot has been a collaboration among the Initiative's medical home workgroup, the Center for Medical Home Improvement, and the four private NH Health Plans: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, CIGNA, Anthem, and MVP Healthcare, as well as NH Medicaid. The goal of the pilot has been to value, prescribe, and reward medical care that is tightly coordinated and of superior quality and efficiency. The two-year medical home pilot ended on December 31, 2011; an evalution is currently in progress.