Statement by Jeff Micklos, Executive Director, Health Care Transformation Task Force “The Health Care Transformation Task Force has urged the Trump Administration to express clear support for the transition to a modern value-based care and payment delivery system to maintain momentum for the move away from...
Transitioning to value-based payment and care delivery is daunting, even for sophisticated organizations. For too many healthcare leaders, the term “value-based payment” evokes strong pushback from stakeholders who prefer the comfort of fee-for-service medicine. Even for those who have already taken baby steps toward value,...
Pledge Issued as CMS Administrator Verma Announces HIT Initiatives at 2018 HIMSS Conference WASHINGTON (March 6, 2018) - The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF) today joined the CARIN Alliance to pledge support for giving consumers access to their health care information anytime, anywhere via third...
The Task Force shared comments with CMS about the recently announced Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced ("BPCI Advanced") model. The Task Force applauded CMS for introducing this new bundled payment model which improves upon the BPCI initiative in a number of ways and promotes...
Value-based Payment Models: A Catalyst for Addressing the Non-Medical Factors that Influence Health As the health care industry strives to provide excellent person-centered care, high quality clinical care is not enough; it is imperative also to address non-medical factors that influence health. Research shows that social...
Value Tranformation: A Journey to Better Care and Lower Costs It is widely acknowledged that our rising unsustainable health care costs, coupled with poor health outcomes, necessitates transformation of the way we deliver and pay for health care. Historically, medical services have been paid for on...
Levers of Successful ACOs The Health Care Transformation Task Force interviewed high-performing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to assess structures and strategies that led to their success. Although each organization had differing approaches and experiences, common themes emerged in three major categories: 1) Achieving High-Value Culture, 2)...
Caring for high-need, high-cost patients requires providers to think beyond traditional clinical settings and address the social determinants of health. Yet integrating social services into health care can be a daunting challenge. HCTTF developed the below frameworks to help organizations identify their target population, understand...
Webinars: Transformation to Value: A Provider Prospective Featuring Jason Dinger, Chief Innovation Officer of Ascension Health and Rick Gilfillan, MD, CEO of Trinity Health Listen to webinar recording Download the presentation Originally Broadcast October 17, 2017 Transformation to Value: A Payer Perspective Featuring Kevin Klobucar, Executive Vice President of Health Care Value,...
We’ve all read the statistic from AHRQ that 5 percent of the population accounts for roughly half of total health care expenditures – but what can health care systems and payers do to identify these patients as a precursor to better managing their care? The Health...