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Welcome to ACHP

ACHP is a national leadership organization that brings together innovative health plans and provider groups that are among America's best at delivering affordable, high-quality coverage and care in their communities.

ACHP and its members improve the health of the communities we serve and actively lead the transformation of health care so that it is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely efficient and equitable. Drawing on years of experience, our members collaborate, share strategies and work toward solutions to some of health care's biggest challenges. Their work is the foundation for ACHP's advocacy on behalf of better health care nationally.

Media Monitoring Report

American Obesity Rates Swell
RedOrbit
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates Fail to Improve
Boston Globe
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

One in Seven Lack Health Insurance
Bloomberg News
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

Medicare to Cut Imaging, Specialist Rates
Wall Street Journal
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

Underinsurance the 'Great Hidden Risk' of Health System
New York Times
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

New Dem Health Plan Has Public Option, Lower Cost
Washington Post
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

Effect of Part D on Drug and Medical Spending
New England Journal of Medicine
[Thursday, July 02, 2009]

Preview of HELP Committee's Public Plan
Politico
[Wednesday, July 01, 2009]

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ACHP Advocates
Public/Private Partnership
To Achieve
Universal Coverage and
Delivery System Reforms

Congressional Hearings

House Small Business Committee: The Looming Challenge for Small Medical Practices - The Future of Physician Shortage and How Health Care Reforms Can Address the Problem
Wednesday, July 8
10:00 a.m.

ACHP Bulletin

New issue of ACHP's Bulletin newsletter is available. Top story: "ACHP Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative: Strategies for Practice Transformation"

ACHP Members Profiled by Commonwealth Fund

The Commonwealth Fund has published a series of case studies examining the care delivery systems of four ACHP member organizations:

Geisinger Health System
HealthPartners
Kaiser Permanente
Group Health of Seattle

ACHP Members and Health Care Reform

HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd discusses health care co-ops on National Public Radio.

Group Health CEO Scott Armstrong answers questions in an on-line chat about a Senate proposal to establish national health care cooperatives.

Independent Health Plan CEO Michael Cropp discusses "meaningful health care reform."

HealthPartners' BestCare Initiative: How to Deliver $2 Trillion in Medicare Cost Savings

Employment Opportunities

ACHP seeks a Policy Associate and Research Associate

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Practice Transformation Subcommittee - Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative Web Conference
Web Conference

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Legislative Committee Conference Call
Conference Call

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative Monthly Pilot Report
Web Conference

All Events »

Learning and Innovation

ACHP works with medical directors, quality improvement staff, and other health plan officials to improve the health care system and the lives of people in the communities they serve. In addition, we help our members identify areas where they could improve their clinical service and financial performance and give them the tools and strategies to make it happen.

Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative

HealthPlan Performance Gauge

Medicare Advantage SnapShots

Public Policy

ACHP shares the Institute of Medicine's goals for quality health care: health care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable. We are committed to advancing public policies to help achieve these goals.

Health Care Reform

Key Issues in National Health Care

Federal Legislative Activity

Health Policy Resources