ARPA-H Program To Provide Incentive Payments For Achieving Population Health Outcomes

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is gathering proposals for a social impact program that will provide incentive payments based on achieving population health outcomes in four project domains. The purpose of the program is to allow public health entities and collaborators to have the opportunity to improve the health status of their communities for specific populations using a payment model that incentivizes community-based interventions to improve health outcomes across a fixed geographic area.

The selected projects will investigate a new, regionally focused, outcomes-based financing approach for the health care industry, which rewards only positive . . .