Covered California, CalPERS and Purchaser Business Group on Health to Launch Sweeping Quality Improvement Project to Modernize Primary Care for Californians
The partnership includes introducing a set of performance measures that reflect a shared standard of Advanced Primary Care as defined by PBGH’s California Quality Collaborative (CQC), a health care improvement program dedicated to helping care teams gain the expertise, infrastructure and tools needed to advance patient-centered care. The measures focused on health outcomes, patient safety and patient experience are designed to encourage high-quality, high-value primary care statewide starting
Advanced primary care places patients at the center of every interaction and prioritizes access to high-quality primary care to promote continuity of care and to prevent higher acuity, costlier care which makes for a healthier
Purchasers are seeking to transition to an approach that recognizes the outcomes and experience of the care patients receive as a way of identifying high-quality primary care. To support the transition, PBGH’s California Quality Collaborative has defined a set of specific measures to improve the delivery of primary care services through a one-of-a kind multi-stakeholder process that includes input from purchasers, health plans, providers and patients.
“Large employers and public health care purchasers want to know they are paying for high-quality health care,” said
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“Raising the bar on the quality of care delivered not only leads to better outcomes for Californians, it also continues our mission to address the underlying costs of care, and making coverage more affordable to everyone,” said Dr.
CalPERS provides health benefits for 1.5 million
“As the largest purchaser of public employee benefits in
Performance across the suite of measures will allow purchasers and patients to identify practices delivering advanced primary care and strengthen the development and implementation of alternate payment models. Successful incorporation of the measures into Covered California and CalPERS contracts are expected to elevate the standard of primary care in the state of
Read more about the how CQC defined the standards for advanced primary care here.
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About Covered California
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About CalPERS
For more than eight decades, CalPERS has built retirement and health security for state, school, and public agency members who invest their lifework in public service. Our pension fund serves more than 2 million members in the CalPERS retirement system and administers benefits for more than 1.5 million members and their families in our health program, making us the largest defined-benefit public pension in the
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PBGH is a nonprofit coalition representing nearly 40 private employers and public entities across the
PBGH created the California Quality Collaborative (CQC), a health care improvement program dedicated to helping care teams gain the expertise, infrastructure and tools they need to advance care quality, be patient-centered, improve efficiency and thrive in today’s rapidly changing environment. For more information about CQC, visit www.pbgh.org/program/california-quality-collaborative.
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Lisa Zamosky Purchaser Business Group on Health 9177510232 [email protected]
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