Policy, Practice or Research Impacts:
Safety Net ACOS will confront complex launch issues peculiar to being safety net providers. These more complex issues include the need to define a forward-looking service focus, the need to identify partners, the need to establish an effective governance structure, the need to address the problems of membership assignment and retention associated with a transitory population, and the need to develop quality performance measures tailored to the work of providing health care to such a population.
Principal Investigators:
Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA
Funder/Client:
Blue Shield of California Foundation