October updates and deadlines for public comment period and participation confirmation period
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OCTOBER 2025

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Now open: IHA’s 2025 Public Comment Period

Your comments help drive the direction for IHA’s performance measurement programs. This year, we invite comments on consolidating to a single data submission pipeline for all AMP measures, potential new approaches for measuring aspects of patient experience and access, and specific measure changes in the Draft MY 2026 AMP Measure Set recommended by IHA’s Technical Measurement and Program Governance Committees. 

 

Visit the AMP participant resources page to access: 

  • The 2025 Call for Public Comment with details on all public comment topics 
  • The Draft MY 2026 AMP Measure Set and Draft MY 2026 AMP Technical Specifications  
  • The comment submission form 

 

We look forward to hearing from you. The deadline to submit comments is October 24, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. PDT. The appropriate IHA committee(s) will review all comments, and responses will be posted on IHA.org on December 15, along with the Final MY 2026 AMP Measure Set.  

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Complete the Pre-Participation Confirmation Survey by October 22

During Participation Confirmation (PCON), IHA works closely with health plans and POs to review, confirm, and reconcile contractual relationships to ensure successful AMP data collection, aggregation, and reporting since AMP data is aggregated at the provider organization (PO) level. 

 

To prepare for our annual PCON period starting in November, we need health plans and POs to first complete the Pre-PCON survey beginning on October 9 to identify any high-level contract and organizational changes during Calendar Year 2025 that may impact MY 2025 AMP reporting. Our survey asks about organization name changes, terminations, closures, mergers, acquisitions, splits, and other information related to data management at your organization.

 

New for POs this year, we will also collect DMHC Risk Bearing Organization (RBO) Number and Contracting Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). All of this information will be reviewed and confirmed in detail during the PCON period. We appreciate your help to ensure a successful AMP Participation Confirmation for your organization. 

  

Please complete the following from October 9-22: 

  1. Ensure your organization’s primary contact has access to the AMP Portal (previously known as the PCON Platform) by October 9th to set up your organization to successfully meet the Pre-PCON survey deadline.  
    • View your organization’s users on the Contacts tab. If you need to add, edit, or remove the current users, please have your organization’s primary contact complete the User Change Request Form linked in the yellow banner on the Contacts tab. 
    • If you have issues logging in, please email ampparticipation@iha.org for support.  
  2.  Complete the Pre-PCON Survey available under the Organization Profile tab.  
    • New this year for POs only: we will be collecting DMHC RBO Number and Contracting TIN in the Pre-PCON survey. 

Resources and tutorials on these steps are available on the AMP Portal (previously known as the PCON Platform) under the Resources tab. 

 

If you have any issues accessing the survey or have questions about the AMP Participation Confirmation process, please contact IHA at ampparticipation@iha.org.  

Health Plans: Review the draft MY 2026 Data Submission Guide 10.0 by October 17

On October 6th, IHA will release the draft Data Submission Guide 10.0 for health plan review. Feedback regarding the MY 2026 AMP reporting specifications, including a short survey related to specialty drug reporting in the cost file, is due by October 17th. Please submit feedback to amp@iha.org. Your feedback will help shape the final MY 2026 Data Submission Guide 10.0 scheduled to be released on November 3rd. You can find DSG 10.0 under Data Collection and Submission Resources on the AMP Participant Resources page on the IHA website. We look forward to hearing from you!  

 

in other news

MY 2024 Preliminary Incentive Design Downloads 

Preliminary MY 2024 incentive design deliverables will be available on the Onpoint Performance Reporting Portal (PRP) on October 9th: 

  • Health Plan Plug and Play 
    • Supports health plans with modeling incentive payments for their contracted POs. 
  • AMP PO Worksheets 
    • Shows the MY 2024 AMP incentive design using your organization's own performance on Quality (including Clinical Quality and Appropriate Resource Use/Utilization) and Total Cost of Care for the measurement year.  

Results included in both deliverables are subject to change pending health plan resubmissions for the final AMP results. Final deliverables will be published in November after final results are released.  

 

Health Plan Plug and Plays and AMP PO Worksheets are modeling tools only and do not reflect actual health plan payments to POs. Maximum per-member-per-month (PMPM) payments are set by health plans at their discretion; the default maximum per-member-per-month (PMPM) payment is set to $7 in the preliminary deliverables and can be adjusted by users to assist modeling with different PMPM amounts. Health plans may also choose to adjust other elements of the recommended design when determining their incentive payments. 

New IHA Performance Comparison Report for Health Plans available October 15

We’re pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a new resource designed specifically for health plans: the IHA Performance Comparison Report for Health Plans. This report will offer valuable insights to help organizations understand how they rank against peers on key quality and cost measures. Reports will be released on October 15. 

 

Don't miss our live demo on October 16 where participants will be shown how to access the report and interpret the data within. 

Register now

 

in the pipeline

Confirm your MY 2025 participation starting November 6 

It’s almost time for you to confirm your participation in the AMP program for MY 2025! During the AMP Participation Confirmation (PCON) period, you’ll be asked to make updates and confirm health plan contracts, organizational profiles, and more using the AMP Portal (previously known as the PCON Platform). 

 

Provider organizations, we invite you to attend our upcoming webinar for more information on how to complete this process successfully.  

 

PO Participation Confirmation Webinar 

November 6, 2025 | 11am - 12pm PT   

Register here 

 

Health plans, we look forward to discussing this process with you during our regularly scheduled Monthly Health Plan Data Intake Technical Meeting, on October 30th at 1pm PT. 

Access Final AMP Results for MY 2024 on November 7

We are excited to announce that final MY 2024 AMP results will be available on the Onpoint Performance Reporting Portal (PRP) on November 7th. The release includes results for all measure domains across our AMP Commercial HMO, Medicare Advantage, and Medi-Cal Managed Care Programs. Your hard work and dedication make it possible for us to release timely and more accurate results across the AMP programs. IHA would like to give a special thanks to the Appeals Panel members who reviewed the appeals and determined how to adjudicate them. IHA will send a reminder email to participants once final results are available. 

 

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