The Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCPLAN or LAN) is an active group of public and private health care leaders dedicated to providing thought leadership, strategic direction, and ongoing support to accelerate our care system’s adoption of alternative payment models (APMs). The LAN mobilizes payers, providers, purchasers, patients, product manufacturers, policymakers, and others in a shared mission to lower care costs, improve patient experiences and outcomes, reduce the barriers to APM participation, and promote shared accountability.
Since 2015, health care stakeholders have relied on the LAN to align them around core APM design components, host forums and summits to share information and inspire action, build consensus among leaders, and measure the progress of APM adoption.
- For more information about the LAN’s mission, vision, and goals, please visit the LAN website.
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Executive Forum
The LAN’s Executive Forum convenes health care leaders committed to shaping the strategic direction for value-based payment in the U.S. This initiative provides guidance on opportunities for strengthening incentives to accelerate the transition to value driven, alternative payment, and accountable care models across markets. It is designed to influence and shape care delivery transformation necessary for the success of value-based health care and payment. The Executive Forum’s primary focus is identifying the tools and strategies that prepare health care stakeholders for success in delivering high-quality care that improves patient outcomes and reduces costs across a multi-payer environment.
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Key Initiatives
The LAN operates four workgroups spearheaded by leaders in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors committed to driving value in our health care system, focused on four strategic topic areas.
- Evidence-Based Prevention: This workgroup is accelerating the adoption of evidence-based preventive interventions by identifying and addressing barriers to scale. Drawing on existing literature and the experience of the workgroup, this group is exploring opportunities to spread adoption of evidence-based preventive interventions to help manage and prevent chronic disease.
- Patient Empowerment: This workgroup is focused on aligning patients and providers in order to reduce barriers to access and empower patients to make informed choices that best meet their health care needs. By pinpointing key motivators for patient engagement and promoting shared decision-making, the workgroup is strengthening partnerships that lead to improved health outcomes.
- Tech-Enabled Care: This workgroup is investigating best practices for digital health ecosystems and identifying the most impactful ways technology can improve patient health and health care. Aligned with the CMS “Making Health Tech Great Again” initiative, the group is advancing the use of consumer-facing health applications to promote better health outcomes.
- Choice & Competition: This workgroup aims to expand access to high-quality, value-based care by increasing meaningful choices for patients in where, how, and from whom they receive care. This group is also investigating how to encourage more providers to participate in value-based care models, ensuring consumers have access to a broad range of health plan options.
LAN Goal Statement
The goal of the LAN is to accelerate the percentage of U.S. health care payments tied to quality and value in each market segment through adoption of two-sided risk APMs (Categories 3B and 4 of the LAN APM Framework).
Originally posted on: October 31, 2024 | Reviewed and revised on: March 10, 2026