New, Cheaper Health Plans Aim to Avert Costly Procedures
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Sebelius to Insurers: It’s Not Too Late to Work Together
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Fox Insurance Ejected From Medicare Prescription Drug Program
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Employers Plan to Shift More Health Care Costs to Workers, Survey Reports
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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.
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What's New
ACHP Members Ranked Among Highest Performing Health Plans
More ACHP members are in the top ten health plans this year than ever before, according to performance rankings on clinical quality and patient satisfaction measures developed by NCQA and published in U.S. News & World Report.
- Nine of the top 10 Medicare plans and 15 of the top 25 are ACHP member plans
- Five of the top 10 commercial plans and 11 of the top 25 are ACHP member plans
U.S. News singles out an Honor Roll of health plans five ACHP member plans are on the commercial honor roll and the entire Medicare honor roll consists of ACHP member plans.
Read the ACHP press release.
ACHP Member Press Releases on U.S. News & World Report/NCQA Rankings
Fallon Community Health Plan
GroupHealth
Kaiser Permanente
Tufts Health Plan
ACHP Opposes Health Plan Tax and Assessments in Senate Bill
CEOs of ACHP member plans have expressed their concerns to Senate Majority Leader Reid about new taxes and assessments that would be imposed on health plans under health care reform legislation.
Fact sheet with illustrative examples
2009 State of Health Care Quality Report
ACHP Issues Press Release Supporting NCQA Call for Expanded Quality Reporting and Transparency in 2009 State of Health Care Quality Report.
ACHP Medicare Advantage Plans Outperform the Majority of Medicare
Report Establishes Benchmarks for Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations for
Medicare Beneficiaries
A new analysis comparing a group of Medicare Advantage plans to traditional fee-for-service Medicare quantifies how coordinating and integrating care can lower the rate of avoidable hospital readmissions (a hospital admission within 30 days following a patient's hospital discharge), as well as preventable hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. Read more
Johns Hopkins Study: The Benefits of Care Coordination: A Comparison of Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicare Advantage
Patient-Centered Medical Homes
ACHP member plans are pushing the boundaries on medical homes, working together through the Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative
- ACHP Member Group Health releases study showing that their medical home model provides patients better primary care at no more cost
- ACHP Collaborative: Coordinating Care, Improving Outcomes - Examples of Medical Home Initiatives from ACHP Member Plans
- ACHP Bulletin: ACHP Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative: Strategies for Practice Transformation
- More information about the ACHP Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative
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
2010 Medicare Advantage Plan Quality Ratings Highlights Quality of Non-Profits In a study done to help Medicare beneficiaries choose a private plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rates the quality of private plans offered through the Medicare Advantage program. 1. In an analysis conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, non-profit plans, when compared to for-profit plans, are found to have significantly higher ratings. 2. Other findings are that Private Fee-For-Service plans and regional Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) have below average ratings – significantly lower than HMOs and local PPOs and that more experienced plans have higher quality ratings that newer plans. ACHP Promotes High Priority Issues in Health Reform Legislation
Events
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
In-Person Meeting
Scottsdale Resort and Conference Center
Scottsdale , Arizona
Boards of Directors SymposiumThe ACHP Boards of Directors Symposium offers a unique opportunity for ACHP Board members and their plans' Boards of Directors to hear from experts
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.
Key Issues in National Health Care
Federal Legislative Activity
Health Policy Resources