OHCA Investment and Payment Workgroup 

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

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.