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Beyond Developmental Screening: Children Identified At-Risk

Event March 23, 2017 - 8:00am

Developmental screening is a priority in our state, with metrics related to developmental screening included in the Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) incentive metrics,  as a standard in the Patient Centered Primary Care Home Program (PCPCH), and as a metric for Early Learning Hubs.  The purpose of developmental screening is to ensure that children identified at-risk for delays receive assessment and services that address those delays early.

Q Corp Selected to Participate in the Third Phase of the Total Cost of Care Project

Announcements February 7, 2017

At a time of heated debate over the cost of healthcare and an intensifying quest to make it affordable, the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) is expanding its groundbreaking initiative that compares costs of health services in different regions of the country and what is driving them.

Institute Leads National Presentation on Practice Facilitation

Announcements March 1, 2017

Last week Q Corp Senior Program Director Kate Elliott facilitated a national webinar for the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, a CMS-funded initiative to support more than 140,000 clinician practices over the next four years in sharing, adapting and further developing their comprehensive quality improvement strategies. This webinar featured a panel of top-notch practice facilitators, including three from Oregon. Read more here.

The Oregon MACRA Playbook Conference

Event June 22, 2017 - 8:30am

Through insightful breakout sessions, keynote addresses and networking, participants will learn about opportunities for improvement, collaboration and how MACRA applies to primary care, specialty care, independent practice and systems.

Q Corp Partners with Oregon Medical Association for Oregon MACRA Playbook Event

Announcements March 28, 2017

Announcing the save the date for the Oregon MACRA Playbook Conference. Through insightful breakout sessions, keynote addresses and networking, participants will learn about opportunities for improvement, collaboration and how MACRA applies to primary care, specialty care, independent practice and systems.

Q Corp to Merge with HealthInsight

Announcements April 27, 2017

HealthInsight Management Corporation, HealthInsight Oregon and Q Corp have approved an agreement for Q Corp to merge with HealthInsight. Board approval of the merger follows six months of joint exploration as part of a strategic partnership development contract, announced last August. Over the next six months, our organizational leaders will work together to finalize a governance and leadership plan, realign corporate structure and staffing, and finalize integration. Mylia Christensen will continue to serve as executive director of both Q Corp and HealthInsight Oregon.

Oregon’s Health Care Data: Mapping a Path ForwardExternal Link

Resource September 22, 2016
Q Corp
Senate Bill 440 directs the Oregon Health Policy Board (OHPB), in consultation with other state agencies, to deliver this plan for the collection and use of health care data to the legislature. Serving as a resource for both the OHPB and the Oregon State Legislature as they implement additional activities required by Senate Bill 440, this report provides a state data inventory and gap analysis, stakeholder input analysis and key findings, and gives recommendations based on the findings.

Filed In:

  • Measurement and Reporting

Data Sharing: Accelerating and Aligning Population-Based Payment ModelsExternal Link

Presentation May 24, 2016
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN)
This slide deck from the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network presentation on April 26, 2016 is helpful in understanding an overview of the Population-Based Payment Work Group’s preliminary recommendations related to sharing data within a population-based payment model, and share stakeholders' perspectives for implementation of draft recommendations.

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  • Payment Reform

Accelerating and Aligning Population-Based Payment Models: Data SharingExternal Link

Publication August 24, 2016
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN)
This white paper offers guiding principles and recommendations that should be considered in data sharing arrangements in Population-Based Payment models. The paper outlines a series of “use cases” for data sharing that describe particular types of data sharing arrangements, in both their current and aspirational states. The goal is to create an environment where data follows the patient and is available to all stakeholders (patients, providers, purchasers, and payers) in a timely manner.

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  • Payment Reform

Q Corp featured in Data Sharing White Paper

Announcements August 24, 2016

Effective data sharing is critical to the success of population-based payment (PBP) models because the many components of the models—patient attribution, financial benchmarking, and performance measurement—require timely data in order to function.

Payment Reform Series No.1 - Moving From Quality to Value: Measuring and Controlling the Cost of Health CareExternal Link

Publication June 9, 2017
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
This issue brief describes why the industry must move beyond common but insufficient methods of measuring cost of care, and toward total cost of care, and what types of entities are well-positioned to lead this work. It presents five core components of measuring, analyzing, and reporting total cost, and presents the challenges associated with this task.

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  • Measurement and Reporting
  • Payment Reform

Payment Reform Series No. 2- Advancing Transparency to Reform Payment: The Top Dos and Don’ts from Regional Multi-Stakeholder CollaborativesExternal Link

Publication June 9, 2017
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
This document features advice from leading Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives (RHICs), including ones in California, Ohio, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, and Missouri,that have been advancing their communities toward greater transparency of cost and quality information for years and overcoming barriers of all kinds.

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  • Community Convenings
  • Payment Reform

Payment Reform Series No. 3 - The Building Blocks of Successful Payment Reform: Designing Payment Systems that Support Higher–Value Health CareExternal Link

Publication June 9, 2017
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
Many physicians, hospitals, and other providers across the country find that the current fee–for–service payment system creates barriers to implementing or sustaining better approaches to health care delivery. Consequently, payment reforms must be an integral part of any strategy to create a higher–value health care system. This white paper describes the building blocks for successful payment reform and how communities might approach these building blocks to meet their unique circumstances.

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  • Payment Reform

Accelerating the Implementation of Value-based Care and Payment: Recommendations from the 2016 National Payment Reform SummitExternal Link

Publication June 9, 2017
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
Stakeholders who are developing Alternative Payment Models (APMs) face a number of challenges, and those implementing or receiving care supported by APMs have concerns about APM design and potential negative consequences poorly-constructed APMs may have on patients, providers, payers and communities. Recommendations for addressing eight of these challenges were developed by the the 80 national health care leaders who participated in the 2016 National Payment Reform Summit.

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  • Community Convenings
  • Payment Reform

From Claims to Clarity: Deriving Actionable Healthcare Cost Benchmarks from Aggregated Commercial Claims DataExternal Link

Resource November 1, 2016
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
Over three years, Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives, working collectively through the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, have demonstrated the ability to assess, refine and standardize raw regional healthcare cost data and use it to establish meaningful, local practice level reports and comparisons within and between healthcare markets. This work advances healthcare cost transparency, a necessity for solving the healthcare cost crisis. This report summarizes key findings.

Filed In:

  • Measurement and Reporting
  • Payment Reform

Data Sharing Requirements Initiative: Collaborative Approaches to Advance Data SharingExternal Link

Publication June 9, 2017
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network
The report is designed to help leaders - including providers, payers, and employers - who are working, or wish to work, in alternative payment models (APMs) to understand what information they will need from outside their organization and the processes involved in obtaining that information. It is also an aid for third party entities, including vendors, policymakers and others that provide access to the data sources and data sharing processes that support APM efforts.

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  • Measurement and Reporting
  • Payment Reform

Measuring Progress: Adoption of Alternative Payment Models in Commercial, Medicare Advantage, and State Medicaid ProgramsExternal Link

Publication June 9, 2017
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network
This report provides results of a study – the largest and most comprehensive of its kind – measuring use of Alternative Payment Methodologies (APMs) among public and private health plans that agreed to participate in the study. Conducted from May 19, 2016 to July 13, 2016, the findings capture actual health care spending from 2015 and provide an estimate of spending as of January 2016 across commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid market segments.

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  • Payment Reform

Alternative Payment Model White PaperExternal Link

Publication January 12, 2016
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network
The National Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network Alternative Payment Models Framework and Progress Tracking Work Group was charged with creating an Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework that could be used to track progress towards payment reform. Composed of diverse health care stakeholders, the Work Group deliberated and reached consensus on many critical issues related to the classification of APMs, resulting in a rationale and a pathway for payment reform.

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  • Payment Reform