Enhanced Personal Health Care Program - California

Program Location: 
Napa, CA
Payer Type: 
Commercial
Payers: 
Anthem Blue Cross

Reported Outcomes

Description: 

This Program empowers primary care physicians (PCPs) to engage in those comprehensive primary care functions that move us toward a coordinated, evidence-based care model that has the greatest impact on achieving the triple aim of improved quality, patient experience and affordability.  
The Program was implemented in several counties in Northern California in early 2013, starting with Napa, Sonoma, Shasta and Tehama, and then expanding to additional counties later in the year. The program now includes San Diego, Los Angeles (and surrounding area), Orange, Riverside, San Bernadino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Kern, Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, Fresno, Santa Clara, Santa Barbra, Humboldt, San Mateo, Napa, Sonoma, Shasta, and Tehama counties. 

This Program will: 

  • Make a significant investment in primary care that allows primary care physicians and their practice team to do what they can do best: manage all aspects of their patients’ care.
  • Provide primary care physicians with tools, resources and meaningful informationthat promote (1) access, (2) shared decision making, (3) proactive health management, (4) coordinated care delivery, (5) adherence to evidence based guidelines and (6) care planning built around the needs of the individual patient, leading to improved quality and affordability for our customers and their patients.
  • Help redesign the current payment model to move from volume based to value based payment, aligning financial incentives and providing financial support for activities and resources that focus on care coordination, individual patient care planning, patient outreach and quality improvement.

Improve the patient experience by:

  • creating better access to a primary care physician who will not only care for their “whole person” but will become their health care champion and help them navigate through the complex health care system,
  • making them active participants in their health care through shared decision making, and
  • optimizing their health.

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Payment Model: 

Primary care physicians who maintain or improve quality will be able to earn revenue in three ways: 

  • General increase to the regular fees paid to physician practices for specific services.
  • Payment for additional services currently not reimbursed, with an initial focus on compensation for preparing care plans for patients with multiple and complex conditions.
  • Shared-saving payments for quality care and reduced medical costs.
Fewer ED / Hospital Visits: 

Anthem Press Release (June 2015) Collective results from UC Davis, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, Sharp Community Medical Group, HealthCare Partners, Sante Community Physicians IPA and SeaView IPA over one year.

  • 7.3% reduction in inpatent admissions per 1000 patients
  • 3.2% reduction in inpatient days per 1000 patients
  • 2.3% reduction in outpatient claims per 1000 patients
  • 2.2% reduction in outpatient visits per 1000 patients

HealthCare Partners Press Release (June 2014)

  • 18% reduction in hospital inpatient days (per 1000 members)
  • 4% reduction in inpatient admissions (per 1000 members)
  • 4% reduction in outpatient visits, including ER visits (per 1000 members)
Improved Health: 

HealthCare Partners Press Release (June 2014)

  • Increase in quality measures: 
    • 7.5% Diabetes LDL
    • 3.8% in cholesterol management for patients with heart disease
Cost Savings: 

Anthem Press Release (June 2015) Collective results from UC Davis, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, Sharp Community Medical Group, HealthCare Partners, Sante Community Physicians IPA and SeaView IPA over one year.

  • The ACOs under Enhanced Personal Health Care saved $7.9 million

HealthCare Partners Press Release (June 2014)

  • $4.7 million saved in six months
Increased Preventive Services: 

Results showed an increase of 22.9 per 1,000 PCP visits for high-risk patients.*

Other Outcomes: 

HealthCare Partners outcomes (June 2014)

  • 4% reduction in lab visits
  • 2% reduction in professional visits

 

 

*Based on overall program analysis, not California-specific

Last updated March 2019
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