Please note: The date for this webinar has now passed, but you can still access the slides and recording here.
Prevention Institute, Public Health Institute and Trust for America's Health will co-host a Dialogue4Health Webinar to provide information on a dynamic new funding opportunity offered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). The webinar will take place on Friday, June 14 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm PST (2:30 pm to 4:00 am EST). Click here to register for this webinar.
The Innovation Awards, an important part of Health Reform legislation, will support public and private organizations to develop and test new payment and healthcare delivery models that improve quality and reduce the costs of treating people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. The funding announcement includes a category for "models that improve the health of populations." This is a great opportunity to build momentum for the kind of health system transformation that will result in healthy people and places everywhere.
CMMI has invited a variety of innovators including providers, local governments, community-based organizations, payers and health systems to apply, individually or as in partners. During the webinar, speakers from our three organizations will discuss the opportunity for applicants to submit proposals to develop new payment models that advance and incentivize community prevention.
If you are engaged in some of this cutting-edge work, we encourage you to submit a letter of intent in the population health category. The Innovation Center has released detailed instructions on how to apply for an award. A Letter of Intent is due at the end of the month; applications are due in August. We greatly appreciate the Innovation Center for its leadership and for this opportunity to advance population health.
We hope this webinar will be a resource to potential applicants, as well as a forum for sharing and discussing cutting-edge ideas on what a community-centered health system could look like. We have provided links, below, to some briefs that outline our thinking on health system transformation and ways to finance population health. Please consider us a resource and let us know if you plan to apply.
Read Community Centered Health Homes
In this paper, we outline an approach that community health centers can take to integrate community prevention into the delivery of services.
Read How Can We Pay for a Healthy Population?
Prevention Institute talked to health-system innovators around the country to identify emerging new approaches for financing population health measures that prioritize community prevention.