MassHealth DSRIP Program

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Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is proud to partner with MassHealth as a TA Vendor within Domain 1: Actuarial and Financial for Massachusetts Community Partners (CPs). NFF provides strategic financial advice to nonprofit organizations, with a focus on capacity-building for community-based service providers partnering with healthcare entities.

Through our work nationwide, we’ve heard clients share the following concerns related to health partnerships:

• Given the seemingly constant changes in healthcare, even though we know our organization well, it’s hard to feel confident in our financial situation moving forward.
• How do we plan for our own financial risks as well as those in our community partnerships?
• We know we need to invest in our data infrastructure and expertise; how do we incorporate these resources into the cost of our services?

If these sound familiar, NFF can be a resource for your organization and your CP. By developing and implementing financial models, we can help advance long-term organizational sustainability and address MA DSRIP Competency Areas 4 through:

• Articulating unit cost & full cost of services
• Program economics modeling
• Pricing strategy and contract negotiation support

• Budget projections
• Business model planning and forecasting
• Scenario planning
• Planning for growth and change
• Capitalization planning

• Multi-faceted financial trainings focused on:
  • risk-sharing,
  • cost analysis, and
  • the financial implications of adapting to an alternative payment environment

• Supporting networks of community-based organizations (CBOs) to partner with Healthcare
  Through the Advancing Resilience and Community Health (ARCH) Initiative, NFF is supporting networks of nonprofit CBOs develop new contracts, payment models and equitable partnership approaches with large healthcare organizations to achieve better health outcomes across the country.
  
  By providing facilitated technical assistance through areas such as financial planning, business model development and cost analysis, NFF is helping CBOs build the capacity to partner and contract with healthcare/payor organizations nationwide.
• Partnering for Better Community Health
  NFF’s intensive capacity-building trainings and financial coaching around outcomes helped over 40 CBOs across housing, medically-tailored meal providers, human service agencies and addiction-treatment collaboratives understand their readiness to partner with healthcare as part of the recent Health Outcomes Initiative.
  
  Through this work, NFF helped identify what types of investments in capacity and capital were necessary to support effective partnerships, which included mapping growth and change implications of collaboration to equip leaders to negotiate fair and sustainable contracts, increase reserves to mitigate risk, and the investment in data infrastructure and expertise to measure outcomes and the full cost associated with new approaches of care.
• Planning for Change with Community Health Centers
  Through financial leadership workshops and technical assistance, NFF worked with 20 health centers and hospitals across Colorado to plan and implement strategic changes to improve financial and patient outcomes in their communities, leveraging the use of change capital grants.
• Helping Supportive Housing Providers Understand the Cost of Scaling Services
  NFF is providing technical assistance to prepare supportive housing providers in Los Angeles County to absorb a substantial funding expansion, make the requisite infrastructure investments to enable such growth, and scale services without sacrificing quality.

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"I cannot say enough positive things about my experience — and my Board's experience — with NFF. I approached this partnership with dread (finances have never been my strong suit) and left with joy for having learned so much and gained so much benefit for the organization. I am forever indebted."

Click here to email NFF's MassHealth Project Manager, Lisa Thirer.