Purva Rawal works under Liz at CMMI, and will be speaking to that coalition. So, we have our joint session with Liz Fowler, and then the coalitions are going to split up and meet separately, and the ACO MSSP Coalition will meet separately, as will the ACO Reach Coalition. The entity within CMS that focuses on quality and Dr. And Lee Fleischer, M.D., the head of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. And before that, we have a lunch for our Clinical Quality Leadership Forum, our physicians who have been extremely highly focused on quality in their organizations. That could bring new members into APG, to join our experienced members.Īnd we have a joint meeting on October 31 of those two coalitions, and Liz Fowler will be addressing both of those. We’ve had our ACO Reach Coalition and we had something called the Risk Evolution Task Force, which we’ve renamed our ACO MSSP Coalition, focused on MSSP, particularly in light of the fact that, in the most recent physician fee schedule announcement, CMS indicated they’re going to make a lot of changes in the MSSP, to keep that program alive and keep the number of entrants a robust number but they’ve also announced that they’ll create advanced incentive payments, to lure smaller practices into MSSP and they also intend to inject some equity features into the MSSP. And also, transitions underway for APG.įor sometime within APG, we’ve had groups oriented around particular aspects of payment and delivery reform. And we’ve just had several major acquisition announcements in the last few months, with new and new-ish players coming into healthcare.

We’re calling this “Transitions 2022,” to capture the fact that we’re in a bunch of transitions, including with regard to the upcoming elections, at the national and state levels, as well as the ongoing transition to value and transitions in terms of the delivery system, as well as who’s who and who’s doing what in healthcare.

We do a spring conference in San Diego and a fall conference in DC. Healthcare Innovation Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland spoke recently with Susan Dentzer about the program and more broadly about where value-based care contracting and accountable care organization (ACO) development are, right now. In addition, the various tracks will offer sessions that focus on the integration of primary and specialty care creating, scaling, and sustaining behavioral health integration in primary care integrating value-based oncology into primary care innovations in care delivery the future of advanced care at home pharmacy in team-based care caring for homeless older adults in value-based arrangements geriatric and urgent care in the home healthcare workforce recruitment and retention and policy developments at the federal and state levels. 1, Susan Dentzer, APG’s president and CEO, will moderate a panel entitled “The Bumpy, Slow, and Circuitous Route to Value-Based Healthcare,” and whose panelists will be Adam Boehler, former Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Patrick Conway, M.D., former Director, CMMI Seema Verma, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., former director of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS).

Entitled “Transitions 2022: APG Colloquium,” the conference will bring together a roster of high-powered healthcare policy leaders, as well as representatives of hundreds of APG member organizations.Īmong the speakers will be Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Chris Jennings, former Chief Health Advisor to President Bill Clinton, and president of Jennings Policy Strategies and Thomas Insel, M.D., author and executive director of Vanna Health. The APG, America’s Physician Groups, one of the leading national associations representing physician groups involved in risk-based contracting, will be hosting its fall conference Oct.

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