New York State is providing grant funding to Behavioral Health Care Collaboratives (BHCCs) to support providers in sharing clinical quality standards, data collection, analytics and reporting capabilities with the goal of improving care quality and enhancing the network’s collective impact in value-based payment arrangements. The grant program is anticipated to disperse $60 million over three years.
One example of a participant is New York City-based independent practice association AsOne, which is seeking to create a new family-based treatment approach delivered through a clinically integrated network of providers focused on serving intergenerational and complex health needs.
AsOne was founded in 2018 by organizations that collectively serve more than 250,000 children, adults and families with complex health and social support needs. It aims to develop an evidence-based healthcare treatment system that acts “as one” in delivering whole-person care by providing primary care, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, care management and social determinants of health assistance in a unified family-based treatment approach.
AsOne was created to facilitate value-based payment contracts with payors, including managed care organizations, on behalf of its collective and clinically integrated provider network for the provision of healthcare and related social services. The IPA is the recipient of a New York State Value-Based Payment Readiness grant program, which is allowing the state to fund Behavioral Health Care Collaboratives and build the infrastructure to enable collective quality oversight and improvement, data and information sharing, and create a legal structure allowing for contracting with payors on behalf of the group.
AsOne said it would use the population health management platform, CareManager from NetSmart and other managed services to enable care coordination and deliver reporting and analytics across their participating providers to help facilitate their move toward contracting with payors in the value-based payment environment. A press release notes that gathering and utilizing data with visibility into shared clinical dashboards and key performance indicators are vital to their approach to clinical integration between AsOne providers, who may be unknowingly treating the same patients or clients. “This is how we are going to build our business and impact our patients and clients,” said AsOne Executive Director Caroline Heindrichs, in a statement.
Aggregating data across their network of providers as well as external providers throughout the healthcare continuum will help AsOne better understand and serve their shared population while elevating the importance of treating individuals and family members as one unit, the organization said. Tracking all healthcare interactions for individuals changes how healthcare is currently administered, transitioning from an array of service treatment approaches to one that is more holistic.
