HCTTF August 15, 2024
Advancing health equity is a critical element of health care quality that directly ties to improved patient experiences and outcomes. Efforts to promote health equity reflect a moral imperative and can reduce health care costs through effective care management, which in turn helps decrease avoidable hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and low or no-value care. Health care payers play a vital role in this effort by designing and implementing value-based care models and payment arrangements that enhance high-quality, coordinated patient care.
In this resource, the Task Force presents case studies that describe efforts by payers to:
- Develop infrastructure through up-front grant funding: Payers can enable providers and partners to develop the infrastructure necessary to implement...