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SFHN reports strong first-year PRIME progress; cautions that measures reset and continuous work is needed
Summary
San Francisco Health Network leaders told commissioners the PRIME Medicaid waiver work yielded substantial gains — including tobacco outreach and improved race/ethnicity/language data — and said they expect to receive full year-one payments pending final data, while warning that measures reset July 1 and require further continuous improvement.
San Francisco Health Network leaders presented a year-one PRIME update and a broader True North scorecard, saying the network achieved meaningful results on several measures and is preparing to meet an expanded set of performance requirements.
"So we're actually going to get a 100% of our payments this first year," Dr. Alice Chen, the network's chief medical officer, told commissioners while also cautioning that metrics reset on July 1 and the network must continue to improve to keep payments in future years.
Dr. Chen described PRIME as part of…
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