Goal of the ACAC
The ACAC aims to transform the accountable care landscape beyond payment reform and increase collaboration and alignment across key stakeholder groups.
Accountable Care Defined
“Accountable Care” centers on the patient, and aligns their care team to support shared decision-making to help realize the best achievable health outcomes for all through equitable, comprehensive, high quality, affordable, longitudinal care.
Accountable Care Curve
The Accountable Care Curve is a tool to measure organizational progress toward comprehensive accountable care. It informs a tailored approach to enhancing stakeholder capabilities that drive toward more accountable care.
Key Components
Create a movement that promotes efforts to advance accountable care
Coordinate with and leverage other HCPLAN initiatives and activities
Foster partnerships to facilitate
large-scale application of findings
and best practices
Targeted Areas for Activity
- Identify metrics and measures of success for value-based care arrangements to provide specific levers stakeholders can employ to move up the Accountable Care Curve.
- Pinpoint strategies and activities to motivate specialty care providers to engage in value-based care arrangements.
- Create a campaign for purchasers to motivate contracting of value-based care arrangements and reduce benefits coverage change.
- Amplify existing industry efforts to encourage patient-provider conversations about evidence-based care.
As of October 20, 2023, the list of participants includes the following organizations:
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Accountable for Health
- Alliance for Community Health Plans
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Heart Association
- American Hospital Association
- American Medical Association
- AHIP
- America’s Physician Groups
- Arnold Ventures
- Association for Community Affiliated Plans
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Civitas Networks for Health
- Commonwealth Fund
- Community Catalyst
- Families USA
- Health Evolution
- Health Care Transformation Task Force
- Healthcare Leadership Council
- National Academy for State Health Policy
- National Alliance of Healthcare Purchasers
- National Association of ACOs
- National Association of Chain Drug Stores
- National Association of Community Health Centers
- National Association of Medicaid Directors
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- National Council on Mental Wellbeing
- National Quality Forum
- Partnership to Align Social Care
- Premier Inc.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Leapfrog Group
- United States of Care
Contact us to get involved in the ACAC!
FAQ
How do I join the ACAC?
- Thank you for your interest in joining the ACAC, we are not accepting new members at this time, but may in the future. Stay up to date on ways you can participate with the LAN by subscribing to the LAN mailing list and social channels on Twitter and LinkedIn.
How can I contribute to the ACAC?
- Thank you for your interest in contributing to the ACAC, please subscribe to the LAN mailing list and social channels on Twitter and LinkedIn where we will be posting items for public comment when applicable, and link to them at that time.
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Emily DuHamel Brower, M.B.A., is senior vice president of clinical integration and physician services for Trinity Health. Emphasizing clinical integration and payment model transformation, Ms. Brower provides strategic direction related to the evolving accountable healthcare environment with strong results. Her team is currently accountable for $10.4B of medical expense for 1.6M lives in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid and Commercial Alternative Payment Models.
Mr. James Sinkoff is the Deputy Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Sun River Health (formerly known as Hudson River HealthCare), and the Chief Executive Officer of Solutions 4 Community Health (S4CH); an MSO serving FQHCs and private physician practices.
Victor is the Chief Medical Officer for TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid Agency. At TennCare, Victor leads the medical office to ensure quality and effective delivery of medical, pharmacy, and dental services to its members. He also leads TennCare’s opioid epidemic strategy, social determinants of health, and practice transformation initiatives across the agency. Prior to joining TennCare, Victor worked at Evolent Health supporting value-based population health care delivery. In 2013, Victor served as a White House Fellow to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Victor completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Emory University still practices clinically as an internist in the Veteran’s Affairs Health System.
Dr. Brandon G. Wilson, DrPH, MHA (he, him, his) joined Community Catalyst as the Director of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, where he leads the Center in bringing the community’s experience to the forefront of health systems transformation and health reform efforts, in order to deliver better care, better value and better health for every community, particularly vulnerable and historically underserved populations. The Center works directly with community advocates around the country to increase the skills and power they have to establish an effective voice at all levels of the health care system. The Center collaborates with innovative health plans, hospitals and providers to incorporate communities and their lived experience into the design of systems of care. The Center also works with state and federal policymakers to spur change that makes the health system more responsive to communities. And it provides consulting services to health plans, provider groups and other health care organizations to help them create meaningful structures for engagement with their communities.
Tamara Ward is the SVP of Insurance Business Operations at Oscar Health, where she leads the National Network Contracting Strategy and Market Expansion & Readiness. Prior to Oscar she served as VP of Managed Care & Network Operations at TriHealth in Southwest Ohio. With over 15 years of progressive health care experience, she has been instrumental driving collaborative payer provider strategies, improving insurance operations, and building high value networks through her various roles with UHC and other large provider health systems. Her breadth and depth of experience and interest-based approach has allowed her to have success solving some of the most complex issues our industry faces today. Tam is passionate about driving change for marginalized communities, developing Oscar’s Culturally Competent Care Program- reducing healthcare disparities and improving access for the underserved population. Tamara holds a B.A. from the University of Cincinnati’s and M.B.A from Miami University.
Dr. Peter Walsh joined the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing as the Chief Medical Officer on December 1, 2020. Prior to joining HCPF, Dr. Walsh served as a Hospital Field Representative/Surveyor at the Joint Commission, headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.
