Multi-Stakeholder Alignment
Bringing Health Care Stakeholders Together to Align for Meaningful Change
CQC’s multi-stakeholder alignment work fosters collaboration among purchasers, payers and providers to drive impact. To advance evidence-based practices, CQC works to align payment and other care delivery system supports to improve outcomes, enhance efficiency and create sustainable system-wide improvements.
Our Expertise
- Expanding Evidence-Based Practices. Collaborating with stakeholders to scale evidence-based practices and align performance measures through initiatives that emphasize health equity, patient experience and outcomes.
- Building Consensus on Priorities. Facilitating workgroups and advisory committees — such as CQC’s Health Equity Advisory Group, Behavioral Health Integration Initiative Advisory Group, Advanced Primary Care Work Group and California Medicare Collaborative — to build consensus on priorities and provide strategic guidance for our alignment efforts.
- Turning Priorities into Action. Supporting stakeholders in turning shared priorities into aligned initiatives to ensure sustainable improvements in care delivery.
- Facilitating Improvement and Learning Collaboratives. Guiding payers and stakeholders in designing shared programs that directly support provider organizations. Many of these programs span multiple years and include personalized coaching, virtual peer sharing, site visits and data analytics to build capacity and foster a sustainable, accessible health care system.
Our Approach
- Targeted Stakeholder Engagement. Engaging health care stakeholders through focused discussions and workgroups to ensure diverse perspectives inform shared goals and strategies.
- Strategic Planning. Developing structured, consensus-driven plans that reflect agreed-upon priorities and balance payment, policy and care delivery needs.
- Coordinated Implementation. Offering practical tools, coaching and guidance to help stakeholders translate plans into aligned, actionable initiatives.
- Ongoing Collaboration and Accountability. Maintaining continuous engagement through advisory groups, workgroups and collaboratives to track progress, share learnings and ensure long-term success.
Proven Impact
- Through the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative, CQC aligned seven major payers, affecting 18% of California’s population at the time, to voluntarily strengthen primary care through alignment. In partnership with the Integrated Healthcare Association, Aetna, Blue Shield of California and Health Net, the Payment Model Demonstration Project will support up to 30 independent practices with financial aid and technical assistance to improve primary care delivery and outcomes.
- CQC engaged with four large purchasers, including Covered California and CalPERS, to assess advanced primary care delivery through the Advanced Primary Care Measurement Pilot. Together, these purchasers cover over 42% of California’s population, driving alignment on performance measures focused on outcomes.
- CQC, in partnership with the California Health Care Foundation, Health Net and L.A. Care Health Plan, launched the Equity and Quality at Independent Practices in LA County improvement collaborative aimed at reducing disparities in care experienced by Medi-Cal enrollees of color. This program supports 35 practices, serving over 41,000 Medi-Cal enrollees.
- The Behavioral Health Integration Initiative Advisory Group supported CQC in devising curriculum areas of focus to prepare nine provider organizations participating in CQC’s CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration improvement collaborative, who support over 500,000 Californians, in integrating behavioral health services into primary care, focusing on improving screening and care for depression and anxiety.
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Featured Programs
California Advanced Primary Care Initiative
Read More about California Advanced Primary Care InitiativeThe California Advanced Primary Care Initiative is an effort to strengthen the primary care delivery system throughout the state.
California Medicare Collaborative
Read More about California Medicare CollaborativeDates Active: 2024–2025 | A one-year stakeholder alignment effort dedicated to improving care across the spectrum of Medicare enrollees, including duals, non-duals and those in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage programs.
Equity and Quality at Independent Practices in LA County
Read More about Equity and Quality at Independent Practices in LA CountyDates Active: 2023–2025 | Equity and Quality at Independent Practices in LA County is a two-year improvement collaborative led by the California Quality Collaborative dedicated to reducing disparities of care experienced by Medi-Cal enrollees of color.
Collective BHI Solutions
Read More about Collective BHI SolutionsBehavioral Health Integration Initiative | Alignment efforts that bring together stakeholders across California’s delivery system, including purchasers, health plans and provider organizations, to address specific pain points such as defining behavioral health integration and behavioral health integration financing.
Featured
Healthcare Innovation Summit | California’s Payer-Provider Value-Based Contracting Breakthrough
Conference Date: June 9 Speaker: Crystal Eubanks, Executive Director, California Quality Collaborative Topic: California’s Payer-Provider Value-Based Contracting Breakthrough Mark […]
‘Pay attention to what we’re doing here’: 3 payers come together on new payment model in California
This article highlights a groundbreaking value-based payment model in California, co-led by CQC and IHA, launched in early 2025 with 11 provider organizations serving around 17,000 patients, aiming to address challenges in primary care reimbursement, health outcomes and disparities.
Blue Shield of California’s Role in a Groundbreaking Payer-Provider Initiative
Blue Shield’s Dr. Nina Birnbaum shares how the health plan is working with CQC, IHA and fellow payers to co-implement a shared value-based payment model. The initiative prioritizes small practices, unified data and aligned incentives to improve care quality and equity across California.
Dr. Todd May, Vice President and Medical Director at Health Net
Health Net’s Dr. Todd May joins the podcast to discuss California’s new multi-payer value-based payment model, co-led by CQC and IHA. He shares how major insurers are working together to strengthen primary care, advance equity and transform provider payment statewide.
A Provider Leader Looks at California’s Multi-Plan Breakthrough Around Value-Based Care
IHA’s Dolores Yanagihara discusses California’s first unified value-based payment model, co-led by CQC and IHA. The initiative supports primary care practices with aligned incentives, shared data and coaching to improve outcomes and equity statewide.
California insurers join forces on value-based primary care model
This Fierce Healthcare article spotlights CQC’s leadership in launching a unified, multi-plan value-based payment model to strengthen primary care in California. The initiative supports independent practices with increased payments, shared data systems, and hands-on coaching—reducing administrative burden and enabling population health approaches that can improve outcomes statewide.
A Health Plan Leader’s Perspective on California’s Multi-Plan Value Breakthrough
Health Net’s Dr. Todd May spotlights CQC’s leadership in a first-of-its-kind value-based payment model uniting three health plans. The initiative supports primary care practices with aligned incentives, unified data and technical assistance to drive better outcomes and equity statewide.
In California, a First-Ever Multi-Plan, Integrated Approach to Value-Based Contracting
This Healthcare Innovation article spotlights CQC’s leadership in launching California’s first unified, multi-plan value-based payment model. In partnership with IHA and three major health plans, the initiative reduces administrative burden, supports independent practices and advances high-quality, equitable primary care statewide.
Resources
Improving Care for Medicare Beneficiaries in California
Measuring Advanced Primary Care in California
Past Events and Training
California Quality Collaborative’s 2025 Network Convening
The California Quality Collaborative’s first annual network convening brings together a diverse group of stakeholders to align initiatives and develop […]