Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative

The Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, funded by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), is designed to help clinicians achieve large-scale health transformation.

29 Practice Transformation Networks awarded

The Practice Transformation Networks are peer-based learning networks designed to coach, mentor and assist clinicians in developing core competencies specific to practice transformation. This approach allows clinician practices to become actively engaged in the transformation and ensures collaboration among a broad community of practices that creates, promotes, and sustains learning and improvement across the health care system.

10 Support Alignment Networks awarded

The Support and Alignment Networks will provide a system for workforce development utilizing national and regional professional associations and public-private partnerships that are currently working in practice transformation efforts. Utilizing existing and emerging tools (e.g., continuing medical education, maintenance of certification, core competency development) these networks will help ensure sustainability of these efforts. These will especially support the recruitment of clinician practices serving small, rural and medically underserved communities and play an active role in the alignment of new learning.

The initiative 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. The initiative is one part of a strategy advanced by the Affordable Care Act to strengthen the quality of patient care and spend health care dollars more wisely. 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.

For more information: https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/Transforming-Clinical-Practices/