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.

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.

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.

Behavioral Health Provider Participation in Medicaid Value-Based Payment Models: An Environmental Scan and Policy Considerations

The report details existing value-based payment models for behavioral health services and where they are being adopted, and highlights lessons learned and recommendations for state and federal policymakers.

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.

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.

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 Payment Innovation with Federally Qualified Health Centers: Lessons from California

To enhance the capacity of FQHCs to improve care delivery for their patients, California’s Department of Health Care Services is pursuing a value-based, alternative payment methodology (APM) for its FQHCs.