Payment Reform Rate Structure

SAPC’s Value-Based Incentives (VBI) helps provider agencies strengthen their operational capability and service quality. This shift supports improved performance, better client outcomes, and higher-quality care across the specialty SUD treatment continuum.

Through VBI, SAPC encourages providers to adopt innovative organizational practices, leverage data for decision-making, and enhance service delivery. These incentives work alongside SAPC’s tiered and actuarially sound rate structure, which increases rates based on the number of levels of care a provider agency delivers (see image to the right).

Value-Based Incentives

SAPC’s VBI Package aligns payment with performance and measurable progress. Most incentive funding is earned by achieving specific performance metrics or completing key deliverables. The activities are designed to assess and support provider agencies’ investments in practices and services that improve quality and client outcomes.

The VBI structure promotes accountability while giving provider agencies flexibility in how they achieve results and reinvest those dollars into their agency. SAPC’s VBIs are centered on three core areas of focus: Finance and Business Operations, Workforce Development, and Access to Care.

Finance and Business Operations
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Workforce Development
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Access to Care
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Resources

Guidance Documents
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Deadlines & VBI Communications
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Upcoming Trainings
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