AMP Core
As a health plan or provider, AMP Core gives you a complete picture of your healthcare cost and quality. Armed with this information, you can confidently track progress toward performance goals.
A comprehensive picture of your healthcare performance
It’s hard to improve what you can’t measure. And measuring value-based healthcare performance isn’t easy—different measure sets and methodologies can provide different results for the same population, or limited data might give you an incomplete picture of how you’re doing.
That’s where AMP Core comes in. The program measures everyone by the same standards to create clear, reliable performance benchmarks. And it supports high-value care through a standard incentive design, public reporting, and public recognition awards for top performers.
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Our AMP Core Programs
As an AMP Core participant, you’re in good company. Leading California plans and providers participate in one or more of our programs:
- AMP Commercial HMO
- AMP Medicare Advantage
- AMP Medi-Cal Managed Care
How does it work?
AMP Core’s four program components work together to encourage continuous improvement.
- Common Measure Set and Benchmarking: A common, industry-approved set of performance measures and benchmarks helps you understand how you compare and focus on improving outcomes and closing care gaps.
View Measure Set - Health Plan Incentive Design: A recommended incentive payment design emphasizing quality and adjusted for cost can be adapted as needed to reward high-performing providers.
Learn more - Public Reporting of Performance Results: The Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA) publicly reports AMP Core’s program results each year, allowing consumers to compare provider performance within their area.
Learn more - Public Recognition: Each year, we recognize top-performing providers and those demonstrating the greatest year-to-year improvement.
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Since 2003, AMP Core has given California health plans and providers reliable performance results and benchmarking. This information helps improve care for conditions like cancer , diabetes, and hypertension. In fact, we’ve retired a number of quality measures over the years after AMP Core participants achieved and sustained consistently high performance.
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Health Plans
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MORE THAN
Million Californians
Real impact
From 2020–2024, AMP Commercial HMO Provider Organization performance improvement meant that:
- 162,000 more people with hypertension had their blood pressure under control
- 53,000 more people with diabetes had their blood sugar under control
- 98,000 more people were screened for colorectal cancer
Why join AMP?
AMP Core is one of the nation’s largest, most established value-based healthcare performance measurement and improvement programs. For more than 20 years, it has focused efforts to improve care quality and cost for millions of Californians. As an AMP Core participant, you can:
Get accurate results for better decisions
- Aggregated cost and quality results provide a clear performance signal and more reliable results.
- A focus on expanding and improving data sources provides a fuller picture of performance.
- Ongoing data validation and anomaly detection continually improve data accuracy and completeness.
Measure what matters most
- Our single, industry-aligned measure set tracks the quality and cost measures that have the biggest impact on care outcomes.
- Public reporting and awards programs recognize top performers and provide transparency for consumers.
- Collaborative measure set and program updates reflect evolving plan, provider, and purchaser priorities.
Optimize performance and lower burden
- Standard incentive design focuses attention and rewards high-value care and improvement.
- A questions and appeals process resolves discrepancies before results are finalized.
- Centralized and standardized data collection and analysis reduce administrative burden.
AMP Core benefits everyone
Health plans
AMP Core tracks provider organization performance on standard measures over time and compared to peers. These impartial insights help you and your provider organizations have honest conversations about performance. Measuring only the performance metrics the California healthcare community agrees are most important, AMP Core helps you confidently and efficiently identify and reward high performance.
Provider organizations
With a single measure set used across all participating health plans, you’re held to a single standard instead of juggling different performance and reporting requirements. Understand cost and quality benchmarks compared to peers to identify improvement opportunities and areas of excellence. Recognition as an AMP Core top performer helps you position yourself as an industry leader and supports positive health plan negotiations.
Patients and members
Patients and members can use AMP Core’s publicly reported results to make informed decisions about their healthcare providers. See the results on the Office of the Patient Advocate’s public report card webpage at reportcard.opa.ca.gov
IHA’s AMP programs created trust between consumers, health plans, purchasers, regulators, providers... it’s really unique.”
Dr. Hector Flores, Medical Director, Family Care Specialists Medical Group
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