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Oregon’s Value-Based Payment (VBP) Toolkit

Welcome to Oregon’s toolkit for implementing VBP!

This VBP Toolkit will help clinicians, provider entities and their payer partners prepare for new VBP arrangements, implement these arrangements, and overcome specific challenges to operating successfully within increasingly advanced VBP models. The toolkit also includes resources to support implementation of VBP models for specific care delivery areas. These resources fall into the following categories:

  • Primary care
  • Behavioral health care
  • Children's health care
  • Oral health care
  • Hospital care
  • Maternity care

How to get started

You can use the VBP Toolkit links below or the Menu to select the section you'd like to learn more about. Each section includes multiple relevant topics. While the Toolkit presents information in a sequential order, the process of implementing a new or more advanced VBP approach is iterative. Therefore, you can jump from one section to another to focus on items that are of most interest, depending on where you are in your VBP journey.  


While the Toolkit presents information in a sequential order, the process of implementing a new or more advanced VBP approach is iterative. Therefore, you can jump from one section to another to focus on items that are of most interest, depending on where you are in your VBP journey.

Key actions and considerations

Throughout this Toolkit, the following icons highlight key actions and considerations for the reader.

Green ribbon = Best practice, Suitcase = Consideration for rural/Safety Net Providers, yellow triangle = Cautionary note

Toolkit audience

While the primary audience for this Toolkit is expected to be provider entities and clinicians, important VBP considerations related to payers are highlighted in blue call-out boxes such as the following:

An ideal payer-provider VBP partnership includes communication, collaboration, data sharing and technical assistance support, as well as prospectively defined value objectives, financial incentives and appropriate protections.

Alternative payment models and VBP

Note: VBP models are also called alternative payment models (APMs). We use VBP in Oregon to emphasize the importance of value in the payment model.