Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative

cms-twitterContinuing on the efforts from the Affordable Care Act, CMS has launched numerous programs and models to help health providers achieve large-scale transformation. The Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative is one of these programs. It is designed to support more than 140,000 clinician practices over the next four years in sharing, adapting and further developing their comprehensive quality improvement strategies. In addition, it aligns with the criteria for innovative models set forth in the Affordable Care Act:

  • Promoting broad payment and practice reform in primary care and specialty care,
  • Promoting care coordination between providers of services and suppliers,
  • Establishing community-based health teams to support chronic care management, and
  • Promoting improved quality and reduced cost by developing a collaborative of institutions that support practice transformation.

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell has announced the 39 health care collaborative networks selected to participate in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. The networks include Practice Transformation Networks and Support and Alignment Networks.

Practice Transformation Networks

  • Arizona Health-e Connection
  • Baptist Health System, Inc.
  • Children’s Hospital of Orange County
  • Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing
  • Community Care of North Carolina, Inc.
  • Community Health Center Association of Connecticut, Inc.
  • Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control
  • Health Partners Delmarva, LLC
  • Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
  • Local Initiative Health Authority of Los Angeles County
  • Maine Quality Counts
  • Mayo Clinic
  • National Council for Behavioral Health
  • National Rural Accountable Care Consortium
  • New Jersey Innovation Institute
  • New Jersey Medical & Health Associates dba CarePoint Health
  • New York eHealth Collaborative
  • New York University School of Medicine
  • Pacific Business Group on Health
  • PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center
  • Rhode Island Quality Institute
  • The Trustees of Indiana University
  • VHA/UHC Alliance Newco, Inc.
  • University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • University of Washington
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • VHQC
  • VHS Valley Health Systems, LLC
  • Washington State Department of Health

Support and Alignment Networks

  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American College of Physicians, Inc.
  • HCD International, Inc.
  • Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation
  • The American Board of Family Medicine, Inc.
  • Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
  • American College of Radiology
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • American Medical Association
  • National Nursing Centers Consortium