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The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform was established in 2008 with funding from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation to encourage comprehensive, outcome-driven, regionally-grounded approaches to achieving higher-value healthcare. The Center's strategic approach is unique in the following ways: Fundamental Payment Reform Instead of P4P. A huge national infrastructure has been developed over the past several years to administer modest pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive systems on top of the existing payment structure. Although well-intentioned, this has added new administrative costs without eliminating any existing costs or eliminating the counterproductive incentives in fee-for-service payment, and has the potential for stifling outcome-driven quality improvement by rigidifying currently accepted processes. The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform focuses on truly fundamental payment reforms, such as episode-of-care payment and condition-specific capitation, that focus on improvements in outcomes, rather than merely process measures. Payment Reform as a Means to Better Value, Rather Than an End in Itself. Too often, payment reforms of all types are discussed as ends in themselves, rather as means to enable and encourage specific changes in care delivery. For example, P4P systems are designed to provide additional payments as incentives for healthcare providers to deliver better quality-care, when the problem in many cases is not a lack of willingness by the providers, but a lack of ability to redirect current payments in ways that will result in better-quality care. Even where care changes and payment changes are discussed jointly, as in efforts to implement the patient-centered medical home, proposals tend to add new layers of payment, while leaving existing incentives in place, and to focus on processes, rather than outcomes. The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform focuses on defining comprehensive, outcome-driven solutions including not only payment changes but also the ...

Medical Associates of West Florida is comprised of a group of Pasco county primary care physicians who came together in 1998 to provide superior comprehensive medical care to patients in West Pasco county. We are committed to providing a global approach to maintaining good health and diagnosing illnesses. If needed, we direct patients to the finest specialists and sub specialists in the region while carefully coordinating quality patient care.

Ohio Integrated Care Providers (OICP) was formed as an Ohio Nonprofit LLC by Quality Care Partners in 2015 to create a value based network for Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), an Accountable Care Initiative and Clinical Integration strategies. OICP is wholly owned by Quality Care Partners, a Physician Hospital Organization (PHO). www.qualitycarepartners.com.