The Office of Population Health (OPH) was created in 2015 to lead UCSF Health’s efforts to improve the health of our patients, improve the health care experience for our patients, and lower the costs of care delivered. We work closely with leadership across UCSF to execute a system-wide strategy of delivering innovative models of value-based care. 

We lead UCSF’s participation in 1) state pay-for-performance quality programs such as the Quality Incentive Program, 2) commercial and government alternative payment models such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Medicare Advantage, and 3) population health quality for UCSF and our partners.  In each of these efforts, we work to improve health equity for our diverse patient population.

We are comprised of four main teams: 

• Innovative clinical programs focused on improving the health of patients throughout the care continuum via team-based care and patient engagement 
• Quality and pay-for-performance programs 
• Risk adjustment 
• Population health administrative team