The Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center supports innovation and quality improvement in Oregon’s health care system. We do this through:
- Working at the system, community and practice levels;
- Collaborating across OHA to develop and implement innovative health system policies;
- Managing multiple coordinated care organization (CCO) programs and contract deliverables; and
- Building capacity of health system partners to improve and innovate by providing learning opportunities like webinars, learning collaboratives and convenings.
Our work is continually evolving to support new policies and initiatives. We prioritize topic areas based on legislative requirements, direction from Health Policy and Analytics leadership, Oregon Health Policy Board priorities, CCO contract deliverables, CCO incentive metrics, and alignment with Oregon’s 1115 Medicaid waiver.
The center leads OHA’s system and policy innovation work and technical assistance in several priority areas.
Population health
CCO spending programs
Innovative payment strategy
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CCO value-based payment (VBP) oversight and evaluation
- Manage implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation through CCO deliverables.
- Support CCOs in meeting VBP targets and other contract requirements.
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Value-based payment models
- Facilitate primary care VBP model development.
- Needs assessment and facilitation for topics that may include traditional health worker payment and other specialty VBP model development.
- Support VBP implementation with the OHA VBP Toolkit.
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Multi-payer VBP alignment and advancement
System transformation and quality improvement
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CCO incentive metrics
- Coordinate CCO, community and provider capacity building for select CCO metrics.
- Current focus areas: assessments for children in ODHS custody, child and adolescent immunizations, meaningful language access, social needs screening and referral, and young children receiving social-emotional issue-focused intervention or treatment services.
- Primary Care Strategy Committee - Staff the Oregon Health Policy Board committee.
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CCO learning collaboratives and convenings
- Coordinate learning collaboratives for the CCO Quality and Health Outcomes Committee.
- Host peer-sharing events.
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Cross-agency capacity building
- Support other OHA offices to deliver priority technical assistance to CCOs and providers (for example, learning sessions on race, ethnicity, language and disability [REALD] data collection).
- Provide internal learning and capacity building.
Transformation Center reports