Acumen, LLC conducts policy research to support Federal, state, and local health care and social policy programs. Leveraging vast data resources, they provide information on drug and vaccine safety, health insurance markets, value-based purchasing, and...

Acumen, LLC conducts policy research to support Federal, state, and local health care and social policy programs. Leveraging vast data resources, they provide information on drug and vaccine safety, health insurance markets, value-based purchasing, and...

HQP is a proven independent provider of program evaluation and outcomes verification services to healthcare organizations. Our unique data analytics solution comprises a cloud-based data integration platform, rigorous comparative analytics processes, and professional services expertise required to help determine what really works in value-based care. HQP engages with healthcare organizations committed to value-based care that recognize the importance of independently validating outcomes of vendors, investments, and programs. HQP serves as a third party, independent partner to measure performance and outcomes of existing shared-risk programs and vendor relationships tied to value-based metrics. Our analyses help clients support investment decisions, vendor renewals, or payment allocations by leveraging our outcomes verification methodologies. Our outcomes verification services help organizations determine what really works without any marketing spin ranging from specific interventions to service-line operations, identification of gaps in population health programs and interventions, evaluations of vendor performance and impact, allocation of payments for risk-based contracts, and more. Our services help healthcare organizations produce measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements through statistical and trustworthy analyses. We envision a future where all healthcare programs are designed as a whole-system and decisions are data informed.

Health Quality Partners (HQP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit R&D organization committed to designing, testing, and disseminating more effective systems of care for vulnerable patients. HQP's unique design and system thinking approach has proven to reduce suffering, improve health outcomes, and can lower the overall cost of health care. This has already been convincingly demonstrated among higher risk chronically ill older adults. As tested within the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and with Aetna, HQP’s model of Community-based Advanced Preventive Care, significantly reduced hospitalizations, deaths, and total Part A & B Medicare expenditures.