Oregon Health Care Quality

What Oregon Health Care Quality does

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon, that leads multi-stakeholder community collaborations and produces unbiased health care quality and cost information for Oregonians. It serves five principal constituencies — consumers, providers, employers, policymakers, and health insurers — through measurement, public reporting, and practice transformation programs anchored on the Triple Aim framework. The organization's portfolio is built around data aggregation across 11 payers (commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare) and a portfolio of products including the Q Corp Reporting Portal (50+ quality and utilization measures), the Compare Your Care public reporting website, the Total Cost of Care program, the Oregon Maternal Data Center, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute, the Oregon MACRA Playbook, and Clinic Comparison Reports. Its technology stack centers on claims data aggregation and quality measurement methodologies, with Onpoint Health Data serving as the data vendor partner for the Reporting Portal since August 2017, and a regulatory anchor as a CMS Qualified Entity (since 2012) providing exclusive authorized access to Medicare claims data.

Q Corp monetizes through a hybrid model: grant and foundation funding (notably a $3.5M CMS technical assistance contract in 2017 and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants totaling $4.9M across 2011 and Phase III of the Total Cost of Care Project), supplemented by fee-for-service and multi-year contract revenue from custom reports, data services, and consulting engagements. Public-facing reports and consumer resources are provided free of charge, while customized analytics and consulting services are priced per engagement. Its go-to-market motion is community-led: convening collaboratives, publishing statewide and clinic-level reports, hosting webinars and learning collaboratives through the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute, and distributing content through partner channels including the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Medical Association, and CHITO alliance members.

In April 2017, Q Corp merged with HealthInsight (now operating as Comagine Health), a private nonprofit operating across a four-state region, extending Q Corp's reach beyond Oregon while retaining the Q Corp brand, Portland headquarters, and Mylia Christensen as Executive Director. The combined entity leverages HealthInsight's multi-state infrastructure for broader engagement while continuing to deliver Triple Aim outcomes through Oregon-specific measurement and reporting programs.

Name

Oregon Health Care Quality

Legal name

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation

Website

https://q-corp.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp) is an independent, nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that aggregates claims data from 11 payers and produces unbiased health care quality, cost, and performance reports for consumers, providers, employers, policymakers, and health insurers in Oregon.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Quality Measurement and Reporting

akta.pro primary industry

Cost of Care, Spend Analytics & Financial Performance Management (HLACAHAJ)

Keywords

• Healthcare quality measurement
• Health data reporting
• Clinical performance analytics
• Healthcare consulting services
• Community health improvement

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grants and Foundation Funding: Primary funding from government grants (CMS), foundation grants (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), and technical assistance contracts. The organization received $3.5 million CMS Technical Assistance Contract and $3.6M from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Total Cost of Care Project Phase III.
2. Data Services and Consulting: Revenue from data aggregation, analysis and reporting services; consulting services for health care quality improvement; technical assistance to providers and payers

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp) operates a portfolio of health care quality measurement, public reporting, and consulting programs for Oregon. Its core offerings include a secure Reporting Portal that provides primary care medical groups and clinics access to 50+ quality and utilization measures aggregated from eleven payers, a public Compare Your Care website, the Total Cost of Care program, the Oregon Maternal Data Center, and consulting services that support practice transformation, payment reform, and stakeholder collaboration across providers, payers, employers, policymakers, and consumers.

Product overview

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp) is an independent nonprofit organization that leads community collaborations and produces unbiased health care quality information for Oregon. The organization operates a portfolio of measurement, reporting, and consulting programs centered around a data-driven platform. The core offerings include the Q Corp Reporting Portal (a secure portal providing 50+ quality and utilization measures from eleven payers including Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans), the Compare Your Care public reporting website, the Total Cost of Care Program, the Oregon Maternal Data Center, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute (PCPCI) with online learning modules and learning collaboratives, the Oregon MACRA Playbook, and Clinic Comparison Reports — all working together to help consumers, providers, employers, policymakers, and health insurers improve the health of Oregonians through the Triple Aim framework. Supporting offerings include Statewide Reports, Custom Reports, Maternity Care Program resources, and Consulting Services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Q Corp Reporting Portal A secure online reporting portal providing primary care medical groups and clinics access to 50+ quality and utilization measures with data from eleven payers including commercial health plans, Medicaid, and Medicare. It is intended for Oregon providers seeking multi-payer performance benchmarking and quality improvement.
• Compare Your Care Public Reporting Public-facing website enabling consumers to compare health care quality across doctor's offices in Oregon, including clinic comparison reports released to primary care clinics statewide. Intended for Oregon consumers making informed decisions about care.
• Total Cost of Care Program Measurement and reporting program comparing costs of health services across regions to help multiple stakeholders achieve the Triple Aim outcomes of healthy population, exceptional patient care, and affordable costs. Built on Q Corp's Total Cost of Care methodology developed with NRHI.
• Oregon Maternal Data Center (OMDC) A dynamic web-based tool developed under the Aligning Forces for Quality program to help hospitals calculate, report, and improve maternity care performance. Targeted at Oregon hospitals and maternity care stakeholders.
• Consulting Services Advisory and consulting services supporting health care quality improvement, practice transformation, and measurement for providers, payers, employers, and policymakers. Includes technical assistance and custom analysis on a fee-for-service or contract basis.
• Custom Reports Tailored reporting services for specific stakeholder needs beyond standard public and statewide reports, available on a fee-for-service or contract basis for providers, payers, employers, and policymakers.
• Clinic Comparison Reports Reports sent to primary care clinics across Oregon comparing quality, cost, and utilization data. The first reports in the U.S. to include Medicare data as part of the CMS Qualified Entity Certification Program.

Quantifiable outcome

• 176 primary care clinics received Clinic Comparison Reports in second round of reporting
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Onpoint Health DatacoreTechnology or Integration · 1 August 2017Q Corp partnered with Onpoint Health Data as its data vendor for the new and improved Reporting Portal launched in August 2017. Onpoint provides data aggregation, analysis and reporting services.
• HealthInsightcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017In 2017, Q Corp merged with HealthInsight, a private, nonprofit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care. Together, the organizations leverage respective community efforts to achieve broader reach and engagement, and produce Triple Aim results in Oregon and across the four-state HealthInsight region.
• Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQ Corp is a member of NRHI and participates in the Total Cost of Care Project. NRHI received $3.6M from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Phase III of the TCoC Project and leads national initiatives on health care payment reform.
• Oregon Health AuthoritycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey government partner for health care quality measurement and public reporting initiatives. Collaborates on Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program and transformation efforts.
• Oregon Medical AssociationcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership for Oregon MACRA Playbook events and educational initiatives to help physicians understand and implement MACRA requirements.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute (PCPCI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQ Corp manages the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute, a multi-stakeholder partnership that engages health care leaders and content experts to redesign primary care to be more patient-centered.
• Healthy Columbia Willamette CollaborativemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHCWC chose Q Corp as 2016-2019 convener to lead the development of a shared Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).
• Comagine HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFollowing the HealthInsight merger, Q Corp refers stakeholders to Comagine Health for further information on HealthInsight's work. Comagine Health continues health improvement work in the four-state region.
• Collaborative for Health Information Technology in Oregon (CHITO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCHITO is a strategic multi-stakeholder alliance created to align and improve HIT, data and analytics in Oregon. Q Corp is a partner along with Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, OCHIN, and Oregon Health Leadership Council.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI): National network of regional health improvement collaboratives of which Q Corp is a member. NRHI leads the Total Cost of Care Project that Q Corp participates in, and serves as a peer network for shared methodologies and national initiatives.
• Qualidigm: Healthcare quality improvement organization formed from merger of regional QI collaboratives including Maine Quality Counts. Operates as a regional QI collaborative with similar quality measurement and practice transformation services.
• Minnesota Community Measurement: Minnesota-based regional quality measurement organization producing health care quality reports using multi-payer claims data. Directly comparable mission and methodology to Q Corp, focused on producing transparent quality data for consumers and providers.
• Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA): California-based nonprofit multi-stakeholder group convening providers, payers, and purchasers to promote quality and value-based care. Highly comparable regional QI collaborative structure with measurement and reporting programs.
• Comagine Health (formerly HealthInsight): Q Corp's merger partner, also a regional health care quality improvement collaborative operating across four states. Most directly comparable as both organizations share the same multi-stakeholder quality measurement and practice transformation mission.
• Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC): Colorado-based independent nonprofit advancing cost and quality transparency through the Colorado All Payer Claims Database. Directly comparable as a regional multi-stakeholder collaborative focused on cost of care analytics and public reporting.
• Washington Health Alliance: Washington-state regional health improvement collaborative producing community-wide quality reports and promoting value-based care. Comparable multi-stakeholder model and quality measurement focus.

Broad incumbents

• National Quality Forum (NQF): National organization setting quality measurement standards and endorsing measures used across the U.S. healthcare system. Operates one level above regional collaboratives like Q Corp by defining the measurement framework they implement.
• Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH): Large employer-led healthcare coalition focused on value-based purchasing and quality measurement across multiple states. Broader in scope and employer-focused, but operates in adjacent space of driving value-based care through quality transparency.

Emerging players

• Altarum: National nonprofit health systems research and consulting organization working on healthcare affordability, quality, and cost of care analytics. Comparable in nonprofit health services research and value-based care focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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