Transformation and Quality Strategy Technical Assistance
Coordinated care organization (CCO) staff are invited to participate in technical assistance for developing their Transformation and Quality Strategy (TQS).
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Background: The TQS aims to move health transformation by aligning and coordinating internal CCO health transformation and quality initiatives. The projects included in each CCO's TQS are a showcase of current CCO work that aims to make significant movement in health system transformation. The work highlighted in the TQS is not a comprehensive catalogue or full representation of the CCO’s body of work in any component area.
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CCO submissions:
See prior TQS submissions for each CCO.
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Timeline: The 2023 TQS (covering January-December 2023) is due March 15, 2023.
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Contact: If you have questions, please contact Anona Gund (Anona.E.Gund@dhsoha.state.or.us or 503-381-1104).
Template
Guidance
Related resources:
Webinars
Audience: CCO transformation staff, quality staff and subject area leads depending on webinar topic.
Practical application of REALD and SOGI data in TQS; walk through TQS examples and hold time for questions and discussion. This is a follow-up to the webinar on November 29.
This webinar describes components of a SMARTIE goal; explains why SMARTIE goals are useful for shaping CCO deliverables such as Transformation and Quality Strategies (TQS), Community Health Improvement Plans (CHPs), and Supporting Health for All through Reinvestment (SHARE) Initiative spending plans; suggests steps for collaboratively designing SMARTIE goals; and shares one CCO's experience in designing and using SMARTIE goals to guide its CHP.
- Slides
- Handout
- Recording
- Audience: Coordinated care organization (CCO) staff working on quality improvement and transformation deliverables like TQS, SHARE spending plans and CHPs. CCO community advisory council members, providers, community partners and Oregon Health Authority staff may also find this webinar useful for developing their goals, quality improvement strategies, or other deliverables.
OHA staff discuss requirements for using race, ethnicity, language and disability (REALD) data and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in TQS projects that use member-level data.
Resources
OHA subject matter experts for the TQS special health care needs components clarify requirements, provide examples and answer CCO questions.
OHA subject matter experts for the severe and peristent mental illness TQS component clarify requirements, provide examples, and answer CCO questions.
OHA subject matter experts on the TQS utilization review component and the Medicaid Effiency and Performance Program (MEPP) clarify reporting requirements, provide examples, and answer CCO questions.
During this webinar for CCOs, OHA staff:
- Provided score overviews, highlighted strengths and clarified areas that were commonly missed;
- Outlined changes to TQS requirements across components for 2023; and
- Provided a deep dive on the difference between Section C (prior year assessment) and Section D (project context).
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Office hours
CCO staff are invited to join by webinar or conference line to ask questions about developing and submitting their CCO’s TQS. CCO staff may join the office hours at any point during the scheduled time. The office hours will not be recorded, but the online FAQ document will be updated after each call, as needed.
2:30-2:55 p.m.
Join any time during this open office hour session with OHA TQS leads. Come with questions about 2023 TQS requirements and your CCO's projects, or just listen in.
Click here to join the meeting
- Meeting ID: 244 842 343 478
- Passcode: ehG3Dw
Or call in (audio only)
2:30-2:55 p.m.
Join any time during this open office hour session with OHA TQS leads. Come with questions about 2023 TQS requirements and your CCO's projects, or just listen in.
Click here to join the meeting
- Meeting ID: 244 842 343 478
- Passcode: ehG3Dw
Or call in (audio only)