Delivery System Redesign

Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, located in upstate New York, introdiced a risk-adjusted capitated payment model in three pilot provider practices to establish patient-centered medical homes.

Martin's Point Health Care is improving patient care for those with chronic diseases by reorganizing practices into patient-centered "care teams."

Bellin Health takes a "life-and-health cycle" approach that stresses prevention and minimizing the liklihood that patients who use the system will ever need costly acute, inpatient care.

The Vermont Blueprint for Health is a statewide public-private initiative aimed at transforming health care delivery, improving health outcomes, and enabling the citizens of Vermont to recieve seemless, coordinated care.

This brief highlights nine critical issues, and identifies efficient implementation approaches that can benefit the primary care delivery system well beyond 2014.

This study examined seven provider organizations’ efforts to implement care delivery changes similar to interventions.

This report examines the development of the ACO model, focusing on Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.

More than nine of 10 leaders in health and health care policy believe the Affordable Care Act sets the right course for health reform, according to a new survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

Principal Findings. Among high-cost beneficiaries, health was the predominant predictor of costs, with most physician and practice and many market factors (including provider supply) insignificant or weakly related to cost.

The brief assesses middle-ground solutions to payment and delivery system reform by looking at transitional payment reforms that enable health care providers to deliver improvements in cost and quality to payers and patients while the providers foucus on building capacity to transition into a comprehensive delivery reform system that meet their needs.