​​fb88Care Issuing Second Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Supplemental Payments​​

fb88Care recently implemented its new VBP supplemental sub-pool payments, totaling $600,000, which the Department will distribute each year to eligible hospitals based on performance on one or more quality measures. This sub-pool helps align incentives across the health care system to drive desired outcomes. The 2022 and 2023 distribution of these funds will focus on primary care access among fb88Care members within designated Hospital Service Areas (HSAs).  &Բ;

Eligible hospitals must: &Բ;

  • Be an Acute Care Non-Critical Access Hospital, Acute Care Critical Access Hospital, or a Hospital Reclassified to a Wage Area Outside of fb88, and &Բ;

  • Participate in the fb88Care Accountable Communities (AC) Initiative, which includes Beacon Health, LLC (Beacon),  Community Care Partnership of fb88, LLC (CCPM), Kennebec Region Health Alliance (KRHA), and fb88Health Accountable Care Organization (MHACO). &Բ;

The Department issued for State Fiscal Year 2022 in the first week of June, 2023. We are now issuing a second payment this week for State Fiscal Year 2023. For a description of the payment methodology please review fb88Care Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 45, Hospital Services (Section 45.07). After these initial two payments have been issued, awarded hospitals should anticipate an annual May delivery date of these notices and the associated payments. &Բ;

For hospitals that are awarded these funds, the invoice type should display on any paper Remittance Advice (RA) listed as “OTHER.” For hospitals with the electronic 835, the invoice number should display with a prefix of “VBPS.” &Բ;

We congratulate these hospitals listed in the table below, their AC entities, and their community partners who are working to connect fb88Care members to primary care services.   &Բ;

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AC &Բ;

Hospital &Բ;

Percentage of fb88Care Members in the HSA with a Primary Care Visit &Բ;

(CY 2022) &Բ;

Community Care Partnership of fb88 &Բ;

Millinocket Regional Hospital 

76% 

 

fb88Health ACO &Բ;

fb88Health – Franklin Memorial Hospital 

70% 

 

Community Care Partnership of fb88 / Beacon Health 

St. Joseph Hospital / Northern Light Eastern fb88 Medical Center 

66% 

 

fb88Health ACO &Բ;

St. Mary's Regional Medical Center &Բ;

66% 

 

Beacon Health &Բ;

Northern Light Inland &Բ;

66% 

 

Kennebec Region Health Alliance &Բ;

fb88General Medical. Center’s Alfond Center for Health &Բ;

64% 

 

fb88Health ACO &Բ;

fb88Health - Southern fb88 Health Care 

64% 

 

Beacon Health 

Northern Light fb88 Coast 

63% 

 

Please contact Tiffany Norton, Provider Relations Specialist, with any questions. &Բ;