Medical care is often inconvenient for patients and inappropriate — sometimes it’s even unsafe. PBGH works side by side with health care stakeholders — physician groups, health plans and large employers — to develop and spread the most effective models aimed at achieving health care’s triple aim: reducing cost, improving population health and improving patient care quality and satisfaction.
Employers know that primary care is essential to a healthy workforce and employees’ access to a high-value health care system.
PBGH provides pioneering quality measurement programs that form the foundation of work with large employers to expand payment models that encourage greater use of high-value specialty services.
California Quality Collaborative (CQC) is a health care improvement program dedicated to helping providers gain the expertise, infrastructure and tools they need to advance care quality, improve efficiency and thrive in today’s rapidly changing environment.
PBGH works with employers, providers and health plans to develop a maternity care system that embraces high-value services, reduces outcomes variation and incentivizes safety.
The CalHIVE Telehealth & Virtual Care Improvement Collaborative was a two-year improvement collaborative providing technical assistance to clinicians to improve remote chronic disease management of patients with diabetes and asthma within the primary care setting.
PBGH is supporting the development of tools and systems that can enhance the continuity and coordination of physical and mental health in the primary care setting.
PBGH is pushing forward on a broad front to solidify and expand telehealth’s recent gains due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including improving access to primary care and enabling team-based models that integrate behavioral health care.
Strategic investments in primary care, as demonstrated by the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative, enhance health care equity and quality through collaborative efforts among health plans, providers and purchasers.
Hybrid payments that include capitation offer a promising alternative to traditional fee-for-service models, focusing on quality over quantity to enhance patient outcomes and system efficiency.
