Value-Based Care Readiness Assessment

The Value-Based Care (VBC) Readiness Assessment is designed to help dental and health care leadership teams evaluate organizational readiness to transition to a value-based care and payment model in dentistry.

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Five Dimensions of Value-Based Care Readiness

Culture and LeadershipAssesses an organization’s ability and willingness to prepare for value-based care, evaluating the readiness and progress in operational, financial, and clinical changes necessary to support the shift to VBC.

Analytics and DataEvaluates an organization’s infrastructure and ability to gather data, measure, and monitor performance in outcomes, finance, operations, and care delivery, including interoperability.

Integrated CareEvaluates an organization’s infrastructure and capacity to provide integrated, coordinated care internally and externally, including referral processes, staffing structure, and workflows that address patients’ overall health needs and social risk factors.

Alternative PaymentAnalyzes the organization’s financial processes and systems to identify readiness for testing and adopting alternative payment models and ensuring sufficient resources to maximize capacity balancing the mission with the margin.

Prevention-Focused CareAssesses clinical care processes related to prevention, risk-based care and minimally invasive techniques and interventions aimed to prevent disease and engage patients to stay healthy and informed.

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Assess Your Organizational Readiness Across Five Dimensions

The assessment will evaluate your organization’s readiness to transition to value-based care across five dimensions and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

The results of the assessment will provide a snapshot of your organization’s current state and identify gaps in readiness. After completing the assessment, you will receive a “readiness score” and a learning pathway to education, resources, and tools that support your journey to value-based care.

Who Should Take the Assessment?

We strongly recommend both administrative and clinical leadership complete the survey together to ensure accurate responses in all areas, including care delivery, operations, and finance.

Federally Qualified Health Centers
Dental service organizations
Hospital-based dental programs
Public health departments
University dental programs
Dentists in private practice
Physicians who provide oral health services

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Just Getting Started? Value-Based Care 101

The journey to value-based care begins with an understanding of the topic and how it applies to oral health. These resources, a collection of education, articles, and research reports, will provide you with a strong overview and invitations for deeper learning.

CareQuest Institute Resources

Introduction to Value-Based Care in Oral Health: Moving from Volume to Value, a self-paced course that discusses the differences between VBC in oral health and the traditional fee-for-service model, and the benefits of VBC for patients, providers, and payors.
Alternative Payment Models in Dentistry, a report that shares findings from a survey of nearly 3,000 dental providers to understand their awareness and perspective about the future of alternative payment models.
Value-Based Care: The Federally Qualified Health Center Story, a white paper that analyzes why and how FQHCs are well positioned to lead the transformation into a value-based system.
Three Domain Framework to Innovating Oral Health Care, a white paper that outlines a primary care-like structure for oral health care delivery, focused on teledentistry, prevention, and integrated care.

Additional Resources

Defining and Implementing Value-Based Health Care, an article in the journal Academic Medicine provides a framework for implementing value-based health care to achieve better patient outcomes.
Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual, a manual designed to help safety net dental clinic staff with all aspects of clinic development and ongoing operations.
The Perils and Payoffs of Alternative Payment Models for Community Health Centers, an article from the Commonwealth Fund that provides examples of FQHCs experiences with alternative payment models and the impact.

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