This website includes resources to support health care’s transition to alternative payment models.

An excellent guide to definitions and terms commonly used when discussing payment reform, health care finance, and common value based payment models.

This toolkit addresses four key issues for practices interested in engaging with ACOs: 1) Risk management; 2) Referral networks; 3) Actionable data systems; and 4) Patient engagement. The toolkit provides detailed steps to be taken to address these four critical issues.

This HITEQ brief outlines Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) MACRA, what it signals for payment reform, and when it impacts health centers.

This HITEQ brief introduces value-based payment and role of health centers as payment models shift. The brief answers key questions about health centers’ engagement in value-based payment, including health-center specific Alternative Payment Methodology (APM), reasons to engage in payment reform, the shifts in primary care payment going forward, and the transition to value-based payment.

This document offers an overview of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Section 1332 waiver option (or “state innovation waiver”) and key information to help health centers engage in the development of state innovation waivers in their states.

This resource will equip health center stakeholders with the motivation, knowledge, and ability needed to collect and use standardized social determinants of health data.

This resource will equip health center stakeholders with the understanding of how standardized social determinants of health (SDoH) data can be used and which ICD 10 Z codes can be used to document a patient's social needs, and are therefore pertinent to a standardized SDoH data set.

This resource will equip health center stakeholders with the understanding of what data-related capacity is needed to succeed under risk-based payment models.

Panel management is an essential function of a health center. When done well, it smooths the scheduling and operations of the health center; when done poorly it creates challenges with productivity, patient continuity, Quality Improvement reporting, and more. This resource offers guidance on improving panel management activities, including real-life examples from two health centers of the challenges and successes in managing panels.