- March 14, 2016
- Posted by: Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network
- Categories: LAN Update, Webinars, Work Product Releases
Today, the LAN is hosting a virtual presentation highlighting alternative payment models and behavioral health. Please see below for registration details. We’re also excited to announce that registration for the 2016 Spring LAN Summit is now open. Please register to reserve your space! Finally, if you’re a provider, purchaser, or state-affiliated participant of the LAN, we have three upcoming webinars just for you.
LAN Summit Registration is Now Open
Don’t miss your chance to register for the upcoming 2016 Spring LAN Summit. Please reserve your space early to ensure participation! This year’s theme “Accelerating to Value,” aims to build momentum for the implementation and adoption of alternative payment models nationwide. If you would like to submit an idea for a session panel, please provide your submission by this Friday, March 18. Visit the session submission page for more information.
LAN Listening Session for States: Preliminary Recommendations on Elective Joint Replacement
Thursday, March 17 @ 2 – 3:30 pm EST
Register here for a special listening session for states on Thursday, March 17 from 2 – 3:30 pm EST, which highlights the CEP Work Group’s recent draft white paper on elective joint replacement. Speakers include John Bertko (Covered California), Steve Spaulding (Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield), and Brooks Daverman (State of Tennessee).
LAN Listening Session for Payers: Preliminary Recommendations on Elective Joint Replacement
Tuesday, March 22 @ 11 am – 12:15 pm EST
Register here for a special listening session for payers on Tuesday, March 22 from 11 am – 12:15 pm EST to discuss the draft white paper on elective joint replacement and solicit your questions and feedback. Speakers include Jennifer Malin (Anthem, Inc.), Lewis Sandy (United Health Group), and Steve Spaulding (Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield).
LAN Listening Session for Providers: Preliminary Recommendations on Elective Joint Replacement
Tuesday, March 22 @ 2:30 – 3:30 pm EST
Register here for a special listening session for providers on Tuesday, March 22 from 2 – 3:30 pm EST to discuss the draft white paper on elective joint replacement and solicit your questions and feedback. Speakers include Kevin Bozic (The University of Texas at Austin), Mark Froimson (Trinity Health), and Richard Shonk (The Health Collaborative).
Accountable Care: The Purchaser’s Perspective
Wednesday, March 23 @ 12 – 1 pm EST
Register here for a virtual presentation on Wednesday, March 23 from 12 – 1 pm EST. This webinar will be hosted by David Lansky, CEO at the Pacific Business Group on Health; Jeff White, Director of Health Care Strategy and Policy at the Boeing Company; and Catherine Dodd, Director of the San Francisco Health Service System. Jeff will share Boeing’s experience and what purchasers need to know before contracting directly with providers for health care. Catherine will share her experience working with carriers to provide accountable care to San Francisco employees and discuss what purchasers should require their carriers to do and what you should be asking.
Comment Period Closes for Elective Joint Replacement
Monday, March 28
The public comment period for the draft white paper released by the CEP Work Group closes on Monday, March 28. This is a friendly reminder to please submit your input on the elective joint replacement white paper, as well as any of the diagrams, flowcharts, and tables used to illustrate key concepts. To provide feedback please use Handshake, the online elective joint replacement comment form, or email at PaymentNetwork@MITRE.org
We look forward to your participation and input!
Purchasers
Enabling Organizations | 
Policy Makers
Community Organizations
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.
