National Association of Chain Drug Stores Joins Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network’s Accountable Care Action Collaborative
April 17, 2024
The Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCPLAN) welcomes the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), represented by Senior Vice President of Health and Wellness Strategy and Policy Dr. Sara Roszak, to its Accountable Care Action Collaborative (ACAC). This organization joins a long list of dedicated ACAC members working together to transform the accountable care landscape beyond payment reform.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) represents traditional drug stores, supermarkets, and mass merchants with pharmacies. Its mission is to foster the growth of the chain community pharmacy industry and promote the role of chain community pharmacies as the face of neighborhood health care and trusted providers of health care services and products. Sara Roszak, Dr.P.H., MPH, senior vice president of health and wellness strategy and policy, leads efforts at NACDS to remove barriers to pharmacy care, advance innovative care models, and execute health and wellness strategy and policy.
“We’re excited to have NACDS join us,” said Leah Binder, president and chief executive officer of The Leapfrog Group and ACAC co-chair. “They strongly align with our priorities of improving people’s access, experiences, and outcomes in our health care system, and their focus on drug stores will bring new perspectives to our work. Sara brings invaluable experience and expertise in health care policy, health equity, and collaboration with health care stakeholders.”
Accountable care focuses on patient needs with a team of health care providers that supports shared decision-making and works with the patient to help realize the best achievable health outcomes through equitable, comprehensive, high-quality, affordable, longitudinal care. ACAC initiatives include identifying measures of success for value-based care arrangements and fostering partnerships to facilitate large-scale application of findings and best practices.
The HCPLAN started in 2015 and is an active group of public and private health care leaders dedicated to providing thought leadership, strategic direction, and ongoing support to accelerate our health care system’s adoption of alternative payment models.
The HCPLAN mobilizes payers, providers, purchasers, patients, product manufacturers, policymakers, and others in a shared mission to lower care costs, improve patient experiences and outcomes, reduce the barriers to alternative payment model participation, and promote shared accountability.
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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.
