About ACHP

ACHP is a national leadership organization that brings together innovative health plans and provider groups that are among America's best at delivering affordable, high-quality coverage and care in their communities. The community-based and regional health plans and provider organizations that belong to ACHP improve the health of the communities they serve and are on the leading edge of patient care coordination, patient-centered medical homes, accountable health care delivery, information technology use, and other innovations that aim to improve affordability and the quality of care that patients receive.

OUR MISSION

ACHP and its members improve the health of the communities we serve and actively lead the transformation of health care to promote high-quality, affordable care and superior consumer experience.

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

ACHP members are:

·         Not-for-profit health plans or subsidiaries of not-for-profit health systems, or provider groups associated with health plans.  Member organizations are located primarily in mid-sized and smaller markets and have deep roots in their communities.

·         National leaders in health care quality that annually rank among the top performing health plans in the nation.

·         Innovators in delivering affordable, coordinated, multidisciplinary care, and pioneers in the use of electronic health records.

·         Role models for other health plans in innovating to achieve the industry’s Triple Aim – better health, better care, at a lower cost.

OUR HISTORY