Exploring Alternative Payment Models to Fund Health Equity Programs

These programs may fund services that address upstream factors affecting health, such as food access or housing, to achieve improved healthcare outcomes.

How to address health equity in alternative payment models

First, APMs should directly reward reductions in health disparities. Second, models should consider how upfront funding can be used for equity ...

The role of payment and financing in achieving health equity - PMC

Increased funding for Medicaid would significantly decrease differential payment rates for different patient populations. Underfinancing of ...

Advancing Health Equity through APMs

Alternative payment models (APMs) present a significant opportunity to incentivize changes in delivery to help make care more accessible.

Building a Health Equity Focus into Value-Based Payment Design

This brief explores approaches to incorporating health equity in VBP design, creating payment models that positively impact health ...

Alternative Payment Models, Value-Based Payments, and Health ...

find greater disparities between low-income and high-income patients than Black ... The focus on increasing value often is the challenge in these programs when ...

Alternative Payment Models (APMs) | ACP Online

An Alternative Payment Model (APM) is an approach to paying for medical care that financially rewards clinicians for delivering high-quality, cost-effective ...

Alternative Payment Models - Commonwealth Fund

Alternative Payment Models · Search content about · November 2024 · Street Medicine Can Address the Health Needs of People Who Are Homeless · Why Primary Care ...

Paying for Equity in Health and Health Care - NCBI

Payment models can support nurses' roles and functions to address SDOH and advance health equity in four key areas: care management and team-based care, ...

Empowering Care: The Role of Alternative Payment Model Design ...

Alternative Payment Models, with intentional design considerations for health equity, can uniquely contribute to addressing disparities. Tweet ...

Medicare alternative payment models - American Medical Association

The Shared Savings Program (SSP) is Medicare's largest APM to date. There are currently more than 480 ACOs providing care to more than 10 million Medicare ...

Advancing Health Equity: Principles to Address the Social ... - AAFP

However, federal and state policy makers and key stakeholders are examining the issue more closely to determine how alternative payment models (APMs) can ...

Advancing Health Equity through APMs

The LAN encourages these groups to begin incorporating design elements that advance health equity into new and existing Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in an ...

Promoting Health Equity by Changing How We Pay for Care

To advance health equity, more payers should implement advanced value-based payment models · Well-designed value-based payment models can help ...

Solving Disparities Through Payment And Delivery System Reform

As payments are cut and profit margins shrink, health care organizations increasingly concentrate on their perceived core business. As a result, efforts less ...

Alternative Payment Models to Support Child Health & Development

insurer, Medicaid, philanthropy)? Are there restrictions on the services this payer can support? • Are funds from other payers or other funding.

Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network - CMS

The key components of this initiative include creating a movement that promotes efforts to advance accountable care, leveraging other LAN ...

Alternative Payment Models (APMs)

Most Medicare clinicians will initially participate in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) through MIPS to earn a performance-based payment adjustment. Clinicians ...

Looking AHEAD: Partnering with States to control health costs and ...

Multi-payer alignment: Achieving multi-payer alignment for alternative payment models through data analyses and collaborating with providers, payers, and model ...

Alternative Payment Model Standards and Adoption Goals - HCAI

OHCA developed implementation guidance for each standard that provides examples of specific actions health care entities can take to meet the standards. The ...