SHARED COMMITMENT STATEMENT
In order to build momentum around this new framework, the LAN has secured commitments from a range of healthcare organizations – including state governments, health plans, large and small healthcare providers, and large employers – to pursue many of the reforms outlined in the framework. As a demonstration of these commitments, organizations have signed onto the following statement:
“Our organization is committed to a healthcare system that is responsive and resilient to events such as the unprecedented COVID-19 public health emergency. We commit to achieving better patient experience, access, health outcomes, equity, quality, appropriateness, and affordability in the recovery from the crisis – not just a return to previous models of care and payment. In collaboration with other payers, providers, employers, and patient/consumer groups, we will lead the way through actions that help sustain and accelerate our transition to effective APMs, including those that incorporate population-based payments with prospective cash flows. In doing so, we will prioritize three resiliency areas:
- Recognizing that resiliency is dependent on addressing root causes that contribute to poorer health outcomes for at-risk populations, promoting equity in healthcare through intentionality in APM design and implementation that emphasizes measurement, adequacy in payment, addressing social determinants of health, and implementing other evidence-based interventions;
- Calibrating population-based APMs to account for varying needs for capital and other non-financial supports among differing types of providers with differing levels of resources and capacity, while ensuring comparable and transparent information on quality and costs at the provider level;
- Advancing whole-person, person-centered care through increased clinical integration of primary, specialty and other care into accountable primary care, with a particular emphasis on behavioral health and the use of virtual care and other novel care delivery modalities.
Our organization is committed to authentic patient and family participation in APM design and implementation.”
Can you commit to this statement?
Thank you to these organizations that have signed on to the above Shared Commitment Statement.
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.
