By conducting a readiness assessment, you can gauge whether you are ready to take on a new or modified VBP approach with payers, and where you might need payer or other resources to support your VBP readiness. Identifying a staff member or team to work collaboratively on VBP assessment prompts important dialog about practice goals and priorities for improvement.
Primary care entities, including staff and primary care clinicians, should become familiar with the Patient-Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) certification requirements and the clinical model in preparation for participation in any primary care VBP model: PCPCH Recognition Criteria, Technical Specifications & Reporting Guide. The functionality of a PCPCH is well aligned with best practice in VBP population health.
If you are a primary care entity, download and complete the PCPCH 2020 Standards Self-Assessment Tool. This is an Excel file designed to help primary care entities understand the PCPCH clinical model and anticipate what level their practice meets under the current PCPCH standards.
Additional PCPCH information can be found at the PCPCH webpage.
A list of free readiness tools is in the resources section of the toolkit. Readiness tools typically address the following topics:
- General and Basic Operations
- Systems Orientation
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Interpersonal Communications and Teamwork
- Clinical Management
- Finance and Reimbursement
- Quality Management
- Health Information Technology
- Legal and Ethical Issues
VBP Toolkit Menu
- Understand VBP models
- Educate your team on VBP terms and models
- Assess internal interest and understanding of VBP
- Assess your readiness for a new or modified VBP model(s)
- Identify current data analytical capabilities and gaps
- Understand member attribution and assignment
- Understand your population and health disparities
- Understand types of financial risk in VBP models
- Get ready for VBP
- Go live with VBP model(s)
- Promote provider clinical transformation to foster VBP success
- Access technical assistance and peer learning
- Understand how quality is measured and used in different VBP models
- Maximize quality improvement – performance on measures
- Review results and make modifications
- Scale up current VBP contracts and engage additional payers
- Understand VBP compact models
- Primary care model
- Specialty care models (future content)
- Hospital care model (future content)