HEalth care Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES (HEROES)

Under the HEealth care Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES (HEROES) program, public health entities and collaborators will have the opportunity to improve the health status of their communities for specific patient populations through the use of a payment model that incentivizes community-based interventions to improve health outcomes across a fixed geographic area. These solutions will investigate a new, regionally focused, outcomes-based financing approach for the healthcare industry, which rewards only positive health outcomes and reduces the healthcare burden on patients, providers, and the economy. The HEROES solicitation highlights four specific health outcomes of interest to the program. These outcome categories were selected because of their significant morbidity and mortality rates despite the availability of effective, evidence-based interventions to prevent such circumstances or reduce their severity. The four outcome categories are as follows:

1. Maternal Health: Reduction in rate of intrapartum and postpartum severe obstetric complications per 10,000 deliveries.


2. Heart Attack and Stroke Risk: Reduction in the aggregate 10-year risk of heart attack and stroke for people aged 40-70 years.


3. Opioid Overdose: Reduction in the rate of emergency medical services (EMS) patient encounters for fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses per 100,000 population.


4. Alcohol-Related Health Harms: Reduction in the rate of EMS patient encounters for alcohol-related emergencies per 100,000 population.

Proposers will select one of the four health outcome categories in geographic areas ranging from 500,000 to 5 million people in the general population.

Solution Summaries MUST be submitted in advance of a full proposal, and Proposers interested in proposing to more than one health outcome category MUST submit a separate Solution Summary and proposal for each outcome category/ geographic area pairing.

• All questions technical or administrative shall be submitted to ARPA-H Ask-A-Question: https://solutions.arpa-h.gov/Ask-A-Question/. E-mails sent directly to the Program Manager, or any other address will be discarded.


• All Solution Summary submissions shall be submitted to: https://solutions.arpa-h.gov by the date and time stipulated in the HEROES solicitation


• All proposal submissions shall be submitted to: https://solutions.arpa-h.gov/Submit-Proposal/ by the date and time stipulated in the HEROES solicitation

An updated Q&A document, Rev 2 dated April 17, 2024 is attached.

See attached solicitation.