CHCF's 'better care' pillar: demonstrating care model innovation, not just service delivery

The Strategy

CHCF's 'better care' funding pillar is commonly misunderstood as 'service delivery funding.' It's not — it funds care model innovation. If your proposal is 'we will provide more case management to more patients,' that's service delivery, not innovation, and CHCF will decline. The innovation test: what is structurally different about how you organize care? Examples of funded innovations: (1) team-based care with a community health worker as a co-equal team member (not a referral out), (2) integrating behavioral health into primary care with shared visit documentation, (3) using e-consults for specialty access in safety-net settings, (4) group prenatal care (centering pregnancy) replacing individual visits. Your narrative must name the specific care model change and contrast it with the status…