How Community Health Centers Can Partner with Organizations to Adopt Value-Based Care
Value-based payment (VBP), which ties health care reimbursement to quality and cost outcomes - has gained traction across the health care sector.
Building Bridges to Value: Infrastructure Essentials for Community Health Centers
Primary care providers, especially those working within community health centers (CHCs), are pivotal in the shift from fee-for-service to value-based payment (VBP) for health care.
Policy Strategies To Propel Community Health Centers Into Value-Based Payment
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2025.
Strengthening the Integrated Care Workforce
A significant treatment gap exists for individuals living with mental health and substance use conditions. As of 2023, 55% of adults who experienced some form of mental illness receive no treatment and 60% of youth with major depression go without help.
Part One: Advancing Value Through Transformation Webinar Series: Focus on State Reform Efforts
The Task Force hosted part one in our “Advancing Value Through Transformation” webinar series examining the Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) waiver program in the context of evolving state-level delivery system reform innovations.
Easing Transitions: CalAIM’s Changes for California’s Older Adults and People with Disabilities
More than two million seniors and people with disabilities (SPDs) enrolled in Medi-Cal in California will be impacted by reforms, initiatives, and new policies being developed through CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal).
C-TAC and Petrie Flom Center at Harvard Law School Explore Trends in Innovation
By accelerating change at the state level, leaders can innovate to deliver new models and benefits that support those most in need of care – Medicaid beneficiaries – and can act as incubators for federal change.
Emerging Policy Opportunities for Community-Based Serious Illness Care
The pandemic has accelerated trends moving the delivery of care into the home or community. Yet, care at home largely remains the province of better resourced individuals, due to limited funding by government programs. Medicaid, the federal/state program of health care for people of lower income, has the potential to address these equity issues through waivers or plan amendments.
CalAIM and Institutional Long-Term Care: Lessons for Medi-Cal Managed Care
CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal) is a comprehensive, multiyear effort led by the California Department of Health Care Services that seeks to implement broad delivery system, program, and payment reform across California’s Medi-Cal program.
Health Storm: How can you tell if primary care is effective?
In this clip from The Health Storm, Hope Glassberg discusses the challenge of measuring the value of primary care without access to meaningful hospital admission data and the need for data portability.
