About ACHP

The Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) is a leadership organization that brings together innovative health plans and provider organizations that are among America's best at delivering affordable, high-quality coverage and care in their communities. Drawing on years of experience, members collaborate to share information and work toward solutions to some of health care's biggest challenges. Their work is the foundation for ACHP's advocacy for better health care nationally. 

ACHP members advocate for better care at the national level by supporting public policies to improve the quality of the nation's health care and the lives of patients. The improvements that ACHP advocates are grounded in the experience and innovations of its members.

Our Mission

ACHP and its members improve the health of the communities we serve and actively lead the transformation of health care so that it is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable.

We realize our mission by:

• providing a forum to solve our members' most pressing challenges
  
• advocating for better health and health care
  
• developing quantitative and qualitative tools to improve performance and meet marketplace challenges
  
• building the evidence base for health care improvement
  

Our History

ACHP was organized in 1984 as the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based HMO Group. The HMO Group helped independent HMOs identify and share their best medical and management practices and charted a proud legacy of collaborative learning and innovation that continues to characterize ACHP today. One of the HMO Group's most significant and lasting accomplishments was its development of the original HEDIS measures, which are now used by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and Medicare to measure health plan quality performance.

After a name change and appointment of a new leadership team, ACHP relocated to Washington, D.C. in 2001 to continue to help high-performing health plans and providers improve the coverage and care they offer their members and to advocate for policies that improve health and health care quality nationally.

More information about ACHP is available at www.achp.org.