Primary Care Population-Based Payment and Value Based Payment State Lessons

About this episode

The episode discusses Colorado's primary care capitation model and lessons learned in value-based payment.

In this episode of the Pop Health Podcast, Coral's Trevor Abeyta is joined by Araceli Santistevan, Payment Reform Unit Supervisor at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, and Andy Wilson, Managing Director for Analytics at Third Horizon Strategies. Together they discuss Colorado Medicaid’s APM 2 primary care capitation model, exploring what has worked, key challenges such as rate setting and post-COVID utilization changes, and lessons for states pursuing value-based pay...

People in this episode

Hosts: Meg, Melissa

Guests: Trevor Abeyta, Araceli Santistevan, Andy Wilson

Topics covered

• primary care
• value-based payment
• healthcare policy
• Medicaid
• payment reform

Keywords

• primary care
• capitation model
• value-based payment
• Colorado Medicaid
• payment reform
• healthcare challenges
• post-COVID utilization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Third Horizon Strategies, Colorado Medicaid

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