ACO Update: Issue #4
May 15, 2011
Posted by chcablogadmin in : Financial Viability, Healthcare Reform
Regardless of where ACO legislation lands, many of you are still moving in the direction of managing health populations, assuming risk, aligning with physicians and looking at strategies to partner with other providers. In this edition of ACO Update we talk to Alan Goldbloom, M.D., President and CEO, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Alan candidly shares their three main strategies and the challenge for all children’s hospitals in developing an ACO model. Over the next few weeks, we’ll deliver several more CEO interviews leading up to a session at the Executive Dialogue.
We also profile the state scenario in North Carolina and the partnership with North Carolina Children’s Hospital. They’ve had a statewide medical home program for Medicaid patients (mainly children) for 20 years along with an accountable care-like program for the past 13 years. The state/local partnership brings together providers to cooperatively plan for meeting patient need and strengthening the health care delivery infrastructure. Along with impressive cost savings intitiatives involving chronic care, asthma and other conditions, the arrangement has stablized Medicaid care payment and improved care.
I welcome your comments and suggestions as well as your questions. Please feel free to contact me directly.
Jacqueline Kueser, Vice President, CHCA
Jacqueline.kueser@chca.com
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