Committees & Workgroups

Charge: Best practice sharing from team-based care

(Recommended attendees (depending on topic): clinical practice champions, practice leaders/staff, nurse care managers, pharmacist, behavioral health clinicians, community health workers healthcare stakeholders and community organizations.)

Charge:  Responsible for strategic direction and overall governance of the program.

(committee members and committee chairs only)

Board of Directors Resources

• Update on the Revised Affordability Standards
• CTC-RI Reopening 2020 Packet
• CTC-RI Accomplishments 2019-20 May 22 2020
• Issue Brief COVID Primary Care and Payment Reform April 2020
• CTC-RI Response on the Accountable Entity Roadmap & Sustainability Plan

Charge:  Quarterly meeting to focus on best practice sharing, learning to strengthen team based care, and foster joy in work as critical components of advanced primary care/ PCMH transformation.

(Recommended attendees: clinical practice champions, practice leaders/staff, nurse care managers, healthcare stakeholders and community organizations.)

Charge: Identify, discuss and test clinical and financial strategies to improve quality and reduce cost across the RI healthcare system.

(committee members only – by invitation)

CTC Clinical Strategy Committee Charter

CTC-Clinical Strategy Committee Materials

• Primary Care and Specialist Collaboration featuring Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, Director of Clinical Innovations and Director of Primary Care Initiatives, Association of American Medical Colleges on March 18, 2022

Charge: Lead performance improvement, measure selection and harmonization; develop goals and benchmarks, evaluation, research, and liaison with the APCD. Serve as liaison to other committees.

(Recommended attendees:  IT/HIT/data analysts)

Charge:  To recommend CTC financial policies, goals, and budgets as well as review CTC’s financial performance against its goals and propose major transactions and programs to the Board of Directors.

*Health Plans may invite additional financial staff

Charge:  To guide and drive child and adolescent improvement activities in RI.

(Recommended attendees: clinical practice champions, practice leaders/staff, nurse care managers, healthcare stakeholders and community organizations.)

Charge: Lead the transformation of primary care in RI in the context of an integrated health care system.

(Recommended attendees:  health plans, primary care and behavioral health providers, and key stakeholders)

This committee will meet on an “ad hoc” basis moving forward

Charge: To convene key stakeholder to build on the work produced by the OHIC Task Force on Prior Authorization in order to develop concrete consensus recommendations that take into account health plans/ payers, providers and patients’ needs for a more effective, less burdensome and resource intensive prior approval process and also supports evidence-based, affordable, high-quality care, mitigates cost trends, and reduces unnecessary/unsafe service and medication utilization. 

Charge: This group will establish best practices for encouraging more primary care engagement, including incentives for trainees and trainers, and new models of interdisciplinary and team-based care training and strategies for retention of primary care providers in Rhode Island.

Contracting Committee

Charge:  Responsible for contract development, attribution, and looking at alternate payment models and PCMH as part of a delivery system as well as a common contract for PCMH Kids sustainability payments. Serve as liaison to other committees.

(Recommended attendees: health plans, provider champions and organization leadership)

Resources

Program Evaluation Committee

Charge: Coordination of the CTC-RI Evaluation Process.

(Recommended attendees: staff interested in data and program evaluation)

Community Health Team Oversight Committee

Charge: A subcommittee of the Board responsible for providing oversight of CTC’s engagement with the multi-payer Community Health Team initiative.

(Recommended attendees: those with content expertise in CHTs and addressing the needs of high-risk populations. The Committee will have co-chairs representing payer and provider perspectives. Desired representation on the committee includes payers, providers, patients and families; ACO’s, AE, and systems of care.)