The multi-stakeholder Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) Investment and Payment Workgroup provides input to OHCA on the development of primary care, alternative payment model (APM), and behavioral health definitions, data collection processes, and benchmarks. OHCA will gather information from this stakeholder engagement to develop recommendations for benchmarks. The Workgroup also provides input to OHCA on the relationships between the APM, primary care, and behavioral health components.
Investment and Payment Workgroup Members
Lisa Albers
Ash Amarnath
Sarah Arnquist
Bill Barcellona
Stephanie Berry
Beth Capell
Kirsten Barlow
Teresa Castillo
Rhonda Chabran
Jessica Cruz
Crystal Eubanks
Lisa Folberg
Keenan Freeman
Nina Graham
Kevin Grumbach
Reshma Gupta
Héctor Hernández-Delgado
Amy Nguyen Howell
Paula Jamison
Vickie Mays
Jodi Nerell
Jeffrey Norris
Catrina Reyes
Janice Rocco
Cary Sanders
Parnika Saxena
Monica Soni
Dan Southard
Nicole Stelter
Catherine Teare
Yagnesh Vadgama
Assistant Chief, Clinical Policy & Programs Division, CalPERS
Chief Health Officer, California Health Care Safety Net Institute
Principal Consultant, SJA Health Solutions
Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, America’s Physician Groups
Government Relations Director, Elevance Health
Contract Lobbyist, Health Access California
Vice President Policy, California Hospital Association (CHA)
Chief, Program Policy Section, Medi-Cal Behavioral Health Policy Division, DHCS
Vice President of Behavioral Health for Kaiser Permanente, SCAL, HI
Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) California
Vice President Care Transformation, California Quality Collaborative (CQC)
Chief Executive Officer, California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)
Chief Financial Officer, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)
Transplant Recipient and Cancer Survivor, Patients for Primary Care
Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UC San Francisco
Chief of Population Health and Accountable Care, UC Davis
Senior Attorney, National Health Law Program
Chief of the Office for Provider Advancement (OPA), Optum
Senior Vice President for Population Health, AltaMed
Professor, UCLA, Dept of Psychology & Center for Health Policy Research
Director of Local Mental Health Engagement, Sutter Health
Value-Based Care Payment Branch Chief, Quality and Pop. Health Management, DHCS
Deputy General Counsel, California Primary Care Association (CPCA)
Chief of Staff, California Medical Association
Senior Policy Director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)
Chair, Government Affairs Committee, California State Association of Psychiatrists
Chief Medical Officer, Covered California
Chief Deputy Director, Department of Managed Health Care (DHMC)
Director of Behavioral Health, Commercial Lines of Business, Blue Shield of California
Associate Director, Advancing People-Centered Care, California Health Care Foundation
Vice President of Clinical Care Services, Autism, Magellan
Investment and Payment Workgroup Charter
2024 Workgroup Meetings
January 17
February 21
March 20
April 17
May 15
June 20
July 17
August 21
September 18
October 16
November 21
December 18
Future meeting dates to be announced.
2023 Workgroup Meeting Archive
Public Comment
To submit public comment for this workgroup, send an email to ohca@hcai.ca.gov and indicate “Investment and Payment Workgroup public comment” in the subject line.