The tool: Goals for the risk readiness tool include helping small clinician-owned practice assess their readiness to take on incentive-based or risk-based contracts, educate practice owners on what it take to enter risk based payment models and monitor their progress toward risk readiness over time. Key domains include the following:
- Leadership and high value culture
- Financial operations
- Information and analytic infrastructure/HER
- Quality of care and clinical infrastructure
- Care coordination
- Effective collaboration