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Primary Care Transformation
May 2025 Ann M. Nguyen, Alexandra M. Williams, Stephanie Marcello ,
Integrated care functions as a treatment and prevention strategy, where healthy behaviors are established well before they turn into complex, expensive chronic conditions. More
Report Primary Care Transformation
May 2025 Hope Glassberg, Henry Chung, Jordanna Davis, Adam J. Falcone, Alison Gold,
This report offers community health centers, their partners, policymakers, and others a place to start in addressing challenges to implementing value-based payment models, particularly as the safety net faces potential cuts in federal funding for Medicaid. More
Toolkit
May 2025 January Angeles, Erin Taylor,
It requires significant stakeholder engagement to develop buy-in, a robust infrastructure operated with dedicated staff or contract resources for… More
Setting a target, in and of itself, is not sufficient to slow cost growth. States and their partnering stakeholders need to take individual or… More
A critical part of the target program is granular analysis of the health care system’s overall performance and the factors driving costs in the… More
Once the target is set, states need to measure the change in annual per capita health care expenditures against the target. This is done using… More
States should strive to be clear and transparent about why the target is needed and the factors to consider in setting the target methodology and… More
Effective communication is a cornerstone of successful stakeholder engagement. The cost growth target is a systemic approach to a complex problem,… More
States interested in establishing targets need to engage in planning well in advance of program authorization to facilitate support among a wide… More
Toolkit Sustainable Health Care Costs
Introduction Policymakers across the political spectrum have long recognized the widespread and growing burdens posed by high and rising… More
