PhmCAT
Get to know the Population Health Management Capabilities Assessment Tool and how it supports primary care care transformation.
PhmCAT
What is the PhmCAT?
The Population Health Management Capabilities Assessment Tool (PhmCAT) is designed to support primary care practices to identify strengths and opportunities for improving their population health management capabilities. The PhmCAT was created by a diverse stakeholder group of providers, administrators, health plans and experts in the field. The majority of the questions in the PhmCAT are from publicly available tools that are commonly used and/or have been validated to measure concepts associated with high quality primary care practice.
The 50-question assessment is designed to be taken by a multidisciplinary team across a primary care practice. It assesses eight domains that are critical for effective population health management:
- Leadership & culture
- Business case for PHM
- Technology & data infrastructure
- Empanelment & access
- Care teams
- Patient-centered, population-based care
- Social health
- Behavioral health
How do I complete the PhmCAT?
Confirm Who Should Take the PhmCAT
- Determine who at your organization should take this assessment in order to get the most meaningful results. We encourage the same individuals from a practice to fill out the PhmCAT on an annual basis, since the results will be trended.
- Organizations need a minimum of 3 individuals to complete the PhmCAT, although we recommend between 3-8 individuals. Examples of important roles to take the assessment include:
- Provider
- Clinic front-line (MA or Nurse)
- Administrative/office manager
- Executive Sponsor (e.g., CEO, COO)
- Clinical lead (e.g., CMO, CNO, medical director
- Finance lead (e.g., CFO, accounting manager)
- Executive Sponsor (e.g., CEO, COO)
- Clinical lead (e.g., CMO, CNO, medical director)
- Finance lead (e.g., CFO, accounting manager)
- Data & technology lead (e.g., CIO, IT director, etc.)
- Quality lead (e.g., quality manager/director)
- Other
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Practices in the Equity and Practice Transformation (EPT) Program are required to take the PhmCAT on an annual basis, with May 2024 as the baseline measurement year. Completing the annual PhmCAT is tied to three of the 25 EPT Milestones.
Beginning 2025, EPT practices will access the PhmCAT in the EPT Deliverable Portal.
The Deliverable Portal will be open for PhmCAT submissions from April 1, 2025 until 11:59PM PST on May 1, 2025.
Take the Assessment
- Most of the 50 questions in the assessment are on a 1-10 scale, with 1 meaning not in place, and 10 meaning consistently present
- If you don’t have enough information to answer a question, please use the “don’t know” response option
- You are not graded on your scores, so answer as honestly as possible!
- If at any point you’d like to pause this assessment and continue it later, please click the save for later button at the bottom of each page. Make sure you save often otherwise your session may time out due to inactivity.
Review Your Assessment
After the submission cycle has ended, each practice will be able to access a report of responses in the Deliverable Portal. Historical PhmCAT results for your practice from previous years will be available as well.
Questions? Please contact us.
