Mountain Pacific

Mountain Pacific is a nonprofit health care improvement organization founded in 1973 in Helena, Montana. It works with communities, health care professionals, organizations, agencies, patients and families to connect health care services and improve population health outcomes. More than 50 years after its founding, the organization operates across five states - Montana, Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii - and the U.S. Pacific Territories of Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Its principal work is the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) programme, carried out under the direction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with providers, practitioners, stakeholders, patients and families. Alongside this, Mountain Pacific offers health quality solutions and consulting, including quality improvement and data analytics, as well as Medicaid services, pharmacy services, behavioral health, care management and transportation management to support patient access to care.

The organization's technical work spans health quality improvement, data analytics, Medicaid and pharmacy services, behavioral health, care management, transportation and health utilization management. Mountain Pacific has held URAC accreditation in health utilization management since 2013 and has completed FISMA/NIST security and compliance audits. Staff work in a mission-driven nonprofit setting oriented toward partnership with community organizations, health equity and serving diverse populations.