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USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute has released valuable resources from the 2023 CBO-Health Care Contracting Survey. Explore the data brief from their research partner Scripps Gerontology Center and the infographic and toolkit slides to gain essential insights for your organization on health care contracting. https://bit.ly/4dF0LYr

Members of the Convergence Collaborative on Social Factors of Health agreed that improving collaboration across social and health sectors—and between private and public organizations—is essential for effective SDOH strategies. Read the Collaborative’s latest Blueprint for Action consensus solutions to learn why achieving the necessary level of collaboration requires improving system integration: https://convergencepolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Social-Factors-of-Health-Blueprint-for-Action.pdf

The Partnership to Align Social Care and Camden Coalition hosted our seventh Coffee and Contracts session that focused on the process of vetting social care contracts from a CCH perspective. Ester Sefilyan, VP Network Services, and Anne Ly, MPH, Senior Director of Network Contracts & Systems Management, at Partners in Care Foundation discussed how their organization uses contract templates, the relationship between the CCH operations staff and the contracting officer, and how their team works with outside legal counsel. Participants broke into groups for facilitated discussions to learn from their peers about vetting social care contracts.

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Resource: Partners in Care Foundation Contract Terms worksheet (pdf)

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The session focused on data sharing experiences from health plan, CBO, and CCH partnerships. Jolene Tanner, Senior Director of Health and Social Programs at United Healthcare, and Amy Fynmore, Housing and Health Program Manager at United Health Group, provided an overview of various data sharing arrangements including through community investment and direct vendor relationships. Attendees also had the opportunity to break into moderated group discussions with their peers.

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Healthcare entities and social services providers are increasingly recognizing the importance of partnerships among historically siloed sectors to address health-related social needs (HRSNs). While the number of community-based organizations (CBOs) and community care hubs (CCHs) pursuing contracting relationships with healthcare organizations is increasing, CBOs and CCHs can experience challenges entering into contracting arrangements with the healthcare sector.

Join the Partnership to Align Social Care, the Aging and Disability Business Institute, and Camden Coalition for a webinar series offering a deep dive into leading contracting practices to effectively and efficiently address HRSNs. In each webinar, we will focus on the essential elements of contracting between health care and community partners and feature leading practices from the field. Each event will also highlight key findings from a four-part toolkit, Healthcare Guide to Contracting with CBOs, developed with extensive input from CBOs, health plans, and health systems. While these resources were developed for a healthcare audience, CBOs, CCHs, and other health and social care ecosystem stakeholders will benefit from understanding how healthcare organizations approach the contracting process.

Attendees will gain:

• Guidance on designing a payment structure/model that aligns contracting parties around shared goals and produces value for each party (Oct. 10 @ 2 ET);
• Recommendations on how to develop an effective Scope of Work, based on insights from healthcare organizations and CBOs with extensive cross-sector contracting experience (Nov. 14 @ Noon ET);
• Insight on how payers can improve collaboration with CBOs and strategies to anticipate, avoid, and respond to common challenges that arise when CBOs, CCHs, and payers set out to work together (Dec. 12 @ Noon ET); and
• Perspective from CBO and healthcare leaders highlighting leading practices from community and health care partners that have effectively contracted to address HRSNs for multiple populations.

Registrants will receive access to all three webinars. All registrants will receive the recordings and follow-up resources. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GInAyGusSbSsqe0985JjAA