Accountable Care
Action Collaborative

The ACAC aimed to transform the accountable care landscape beyond payment reform and increase collaboration and alignment across key stakeholder groups.

Accountable Care Defined

“Accountable care” centers on the patient and aligns their care team to support shared decision-making to help realize the best achievable health outcomes for all through comprehensive, high-quality, affordable, longitudinal care.

Accountable Care Curve

The Accountable Care Curve is a tool to measure organizational progress toward comprehensive accountable care. It informs a tailored approach to enhancing stakeholder capabilities that drive toward more accountable care. 

Key Components

Promoted efforts to advance accountable care

Coordinated with and advanced other HCPLAN initiatives and activities

Fostered partnerships to facilitate large-scale application of findings and best practices

Targeted Areas of Activity

  • Identified metrics and measures of success for value-based care arrangements to provide specific levers stakeholders can employ to move up the Accountable Care Curve
  • Defined strategies and activities to motivate specialty care providers to engage in value-based care arrangements
  • Created a campaign for purchasers to motivate contracting of value-based care arrangements and reduce benefits coverage change
  • Amplifed existing industry efforts to encourage patient-provider conversations about evidence-based care