In the News

Research brief cites evidence from IHA’s Cost and Quality Atlas
A Health Affairs Research Brief cites a study of IHA’s California Healthcare Cost & Quality Atlas as providing “the most plentiful evidence on savings from capitation at the delivery system level.”
READ article
California provider and five health plans adopt value-based primary care coalition
A new article in Healthcare Finance explores the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative and the larger trend around increasing investment in primary care.
READ article
Strengthening Primary Care: A Pilot with Four Large Purchasers
Get to know the Advanced Primary Care Measurement Pilot, a joint initiative from PBGH and IHA.
READ article
Advancing Person-Centered Care Measurement in the Delivery System
A new Medicare Advantage analysis from IHA and PBGH, supported by a grant from The SCAN Foundation.
READ article
Issue Brief: Primary care spending in California’s commercial market
First-of-its-kind study uses data from IHA’s Performance Measurement programs to examine primary care spending for commercially insured Californians at both health plan and provider organization levels
READ article
Piloting Advanced Primary Care Measures with PBGH, Covered California, and CalPERS
Starting in 2022, Covered California and the California’s Public Employee’s Retirement System (CalPERS) are piloting the use of Advanced Primary Care measures through their contracts with participating health plans. Our AMP program will provide participating health plans and purchasers with performance assessments to drive […]
READ article
Why multi-payer alignment is key to supporting primary care in California
A 2021 whitepaper by Manatt Health makes the case for mulit-payer alignment to support primary care in California and cites IHA’s Align. Measure. Perform. program as an established approach to aligned data sharing.
READ article
Health Net invests $26 million to oversee, monitor, and implement encounter data improvement efforts across California
First-of-its-Kind Investment Will Standardize and Enhance Collection of Patient Data, Provide Insights on Population Health Trends and Increase Quality of Care.
READ article
Why the Biden Administration Should Help States Develop Capitated Public Options
President-elect Joe Biden has proposed a federal public option similar to Medicare as the centerpiece of his health policy agenda, though the details regarding the fundamental design of the plan remain unclear. Read the full article.
READ article