This brief offers strategies for PCAs and BHSAs to engage state legislators by navigating political dynamics, building champions, and engaging consumers. The insights are drawn from discussions that took place during a session on legislative engagement at the Delta Center Convening held in New Mexico.
For our most recent Delta Center convening, the Center for Care Innovations compiled favorite methods for designing and conducting trainings and events. These methods are fundamental examples of our own human-centered design practice.
This FQHC APM toolkit is designed for state PCAs to use in developing FQHC alternative payment methodologies (APMs) in collaboration with health centers in their states.
In 2017, health centers in Washington worked with the Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers (WACMHC) and Washington State Medicaid (Health Care Authority or HCA) to launch a capitated FQHC APM that incorporates quality metrics.
Piedmont Health Services (PHS) is a Community Health Center in North Carolina with twelve locations across the state, two of which are designated as PACE service sites.
Provider Health Link, an Independent Practice Association (IPA) in Georgia established by the Georgia Primary Care Association, has much to teach health centers considering becoming partners towards financial and quality incentives.
Sunset Community Health Center, Inc., located in the southwest corner of Arizona, is the largest provider of primary care in its county, serving approximately 28,000 patients across nine sites.