The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a consortium of patients, payers, providers and purchasers working to transform the U.S. health care delivery system, has released a new report that offers a comprehensive look at the seven predominant payment models currently used by accountable care organizations. The...
Successful value-based contracting arrangements rely on payers and providers accurately assessing needs, identifying resources, building relationships, and negotiating mutually beneficial contracts. Since our launch in 2014, the Task Force has worked to develop practical resources designed to support organizations in implementing successful value-based payment (VBP)...
The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 spurred a decade of payment reform efforts intended to shift the health care system from volume-driven Fee-For-Service payments to alternative payment models (APMs) with reimbursement linked to quality and outcomes. A principal goal of these efforts...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force developed the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Roles and Responsibilities Matrix as a resource to support payer, provider, and purchaser efforts to clearly identify and assign roles and responsibilities for common APM workstreams and activities. The goal of the matrix...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) is committed to developing resources designed to help both beginner and advanced organizations realize their full potential in transforming to a value-based health care system. Below, existing HCTTF resources are categorized for ease of reference....
Download the Report Developing and implementing processes and infrastructure to support the delivery of high-value care must be coupled with a health equity framework and an enabling public policy environment in order to achieve meaningful change. This new report, Promoting Equity and Value in Maternity Care,...
View the Change Package The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF) and the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation (CCEHI) have developed a change package for implementing organization-level patient engagement strategies as part of an ongoing project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The...
The Patient-Centered Priorities Work Group developed a set of Principles for Consumerism in Value-Based Care that aim to ensure consumerism approaches are patient-centered and equitable. These seven principles can be used as a benchmark or checklist by health care stakeholders, including payers and providers, to...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient organizations, and Community Catalyst, a national non-profit advocacy organization working to build the consumer and community leadership that is required to transform the American health system, released a...
What's in a Name: A Primer on Global Budget Models The term “global budget” has been used to describe several different health care payment models. Commercial payers have referred to payment arrangements like the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) as a...