The Health Care Transformation Task Force is excited to announce the release of Building the Business Case for Health Equity Investment: Strategies to Secure Sustainable Support (Business Case). This resource offers concrete and practical information for how to bring health care organizations’ leadership on board...
The Maternal Health Hub, run by the Health Care Transformation Task Force and supported by the Commonwealth Fund, released an issue brief titled “Using Managed Care Organization Contracts as a Lever to Address Health Equity in Maternity Care” which describes innovative ways states are using...
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 COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergency swiftly disrupted the health care industry in the United States and globally. Health care systems participating in traditional fee-for-service medicine saw a precipitous drop in patients seeking care, starving them of revenue at the exact moment they needed...
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,...
Since its inception, CMMI has been at the epicenter of federal government efforts to reform health care payment and delivery and has served as an effective catalyst in the development and adoption of value-based payment (VBP) models. However, there are factors limiting the impact of...
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...