Partnership to Improve Patient Care

PIPC was established to advance principles of patient-centeredness in an evolving health system. To be truly patient-centered, patients and people with disabilities must be engaged partners. PIPC advocates for the voices of patients and people with disabilities to drive the research that forms the infrastructure for meaningful shared decision-making and improved health care decision-making. PIPC works to ensure patients are at the table with policymakers in the development, implementation and evaluation of alternative payment models that seek to advance value-based payment and delivery models in public programs such as Medicare. PIPC also recognizes the need to advance patient-centered models for the development of value frameworks and tools that are used to determine access to care in the private sector. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that value in health care is defined as achieving outcomes that matter to patients.