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.
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).
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.
Throw health centers a lifeline by replacing outdated payment model
At this crucial moment before a second wave of COVID-19 crests and crashes, policymakers should confront a significant payment problem brewing within our primary-care safety net that, if unaddressed, threatens care for millions of Americans.
Growing our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Workers in Community Health Centers
In communities across the country, staggering unemployment rates and failing infrastructure go hand in hand with significant healthcare challenge
Advancing Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Continuum-Based Framework
The need to bring high-quality treatment and management of depression, anxiety, and other common behavioral health conditions into primary care has been well documented, but for small to medium-size practices the complex models that are the standard for integrating medical and behavioral care are often beyond their resources.
Accountable Care Organizations: A Case Study in the Use of Care Coordination: Montefiore Medical Center
This chapter traces the history of Montefiore’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) development including care management experience prior to the Affordable Care Act, administrative structure, and the use of care management as a central element in its ACO.
