Center for Accountable Care

The Center for Accountable Care will serve as a collaborative bridge between the patient centered medical home model as promoted by PCPCC and the various Accountable Care Organizations (CAC) Learning Networks, collaboratives, and evolving CAC pilots in order to foster and align our shared principles of increased accountability, performance measurement, and shared savings. This new center is co-chaired by a cross constituency of leaders from both the primary care and accountable care organization organizations and affiliations. The Center will work to ensure that HHS promotes and CMS assumes responsibility for CAC and PCMH provisions, and will develop and promote a set of policy and operational schema for creating and sustaining CAC’s with a strong robust PCMH foundation. Key steps include identifying aligned performance goals, defining mutual skills and tools that facilitate change, establishing measurement and accountability mechanisms, and supporting leadership development. This center will ensure that the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) serves as the foundation for all CAC’s, and that CAC’s thrive as a result of strong robust PCMH support. The center is tasked with strengthening the liaison between the PCPCC and evolving CAC collaborative and stakeholders, as well as espousing strategies and positions that strengthen the notion of a strong PCMH foundation for evolving CAC guidelines and practices. This centers' activities and initiatives may include, but not be not limited to, white papers, speaking engagements, webinars, facilitating joint presentations, convening of various pilots and demonstrations, collaborative input into federal and state policy and regulatory initiatives, specific draft policy recommendations, sponsor national webinars, case studies, and recommendations for CAC / PCMH aligned performance metrics.