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.

Primary Care Workforce Task Force Legislation

Take Action Tool Kit        Letter of Support Template

Primary Care Workforce Task Force Strategic Roadmap Report

Primary Care Access for All:  A Strategic Roadmap for Patient Access and Primary Care Workforce Capacity Building

Report References

AHEAD Model Sample Letter of Support

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.)