Resources

The issue briefs, white papers, case studies, and toolkits here have been carefully selected by program staff for their relevance to the safety net.

Oregon's Rapid Engagement Pilot: Engaging People with Lived Experience in System Change Co-Design

The Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs led a multi-stakeholder planning process and engaging people with lived experience to design and launch a Rapid Engagement pilot in Oregon. Rapid Engagement is a system transformation project designed to remove barriers to access outpatient behavioral health services using a trauma-informed and person-centered approach.

Accelerating and Aligning Primary Care Payment Models White Paper

This white paper offers principles, recommendations, and immediate action steps for implementing primary care payment models (PCPMs).

Advancing Primary Care Innovation in Medicaid Managed Care: A Toolkit for States

This toolkit is designed to help states leverage their managed care purchasing authority to advance primary care innovation.

Alternative Payment Methodology Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help state policymakers to implement Medicaid value-based payment (VBP) methodologies for FQHCs.

Health Centers and Payment Reform: A Primer

Health centers are strongly positioned to achieve the Triple Aim – improved patient experience and population health, with reduced total health system costs per capita – within low-income and underserved populations nationwide.

Value-Based Purchasing in Pennsylvania

Richard Edley, President and CEO of Pennsylvania’s Behavioral Health State Association RCPA, shares his insights into why value-based purchasing is so important, prior success within Pennsylvania, and concerns for the behavioral heath provider community moving forward.

Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework White Paper – Refreshed 2017

This white paper from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCP-LAN) updates its framework for accelerating the transition in the health care system from a fee for service payment model to one that pays providers for quality care, improved health, and lower costs and its application to primary care teams.

Case Studies of the Health System’s Role in Addressing Social Determinants of Health

This 2018 AcademyHealth issue brief introduces four examples of state and local linkage of payment reform to addressing one or more social determinants of health.

How Two Funders Collaborated To Address Challenges In The Safety Net And Rural Health Care

This Health Affairs blog post describes an emerging strategy of health funders to develop long-term collaborative relationships with their peers to tackle complex health and health care challenges, focusing on a partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Episcopal Health Foundation to advance safety-net payment reform in Texas.

Choosing Health Equity

The Choosing Health Equity toolkit offers recommendations and resources for advocates, researchers and other stakeholders to promote health equity. The tool includes stakeholder-specific guides and a resource directory to inform decision-making processes throughout the cycle of health care research, policy development and practice.