The ACO Learning Network Work Groups are an opportunity for members to collaborative in a small setting on a specific issues concerning Accountable Care. The four work group topics include: Accountable Care Payment Strategy; Clinical Transformation; Implementing Performance Measures; and, High-Risk and Vulnerable Populations.
Each work group is developing an ACO implementation tool, which will be made available to all ACO Learning Network members.
Implementing Performance Measures
Work Group Leader: Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, Managing Director for Health Care Finance Reform, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution
Co-Chairs: Palmer Evans, MD, Senior Advisor, Tucson Medical Center and the Arizona Connected Care; and Marcia Guida James, MS, MBA, CPC, Director, Provider Engagement, Humana
• Evaluation of current ACO performance measurement implementation
• A “glide path” to guide an organization in deciding what measures to implement over time, and the required capabilities to implement.
Accountable Care Payment Strategy
Work Group Leader: Kavita Patel, MD, Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery Reform, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution
Co-Chairs: Paul Casale, MD, Interventional Cardiologist and Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Lancaster General Hospital; and Greger Vigan MBA, Independent Health Actuary
• Organizational decision tree to determine an organization-specific appropriate payment model
• Analysis of payment options for ACO contracts
Clinical Transformation
Work Group Leader: Don Caruso, MD, MPH, Family Physician and Associate Medical Director, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene
Co-Chair: Ken Wilson, MD, MS, CPE, System Vice President for Clinical Effectiveness and Quality, Norton Healthcare
• Capabilities matrix: mapping capabilities to each domain and level of maturity
• Assessment tool: determining where organizations are within the matrix
• Roadmap: to help organizations understand the steps required to progress through each ACO domain
Addressing High Risk & Vulnerable Populations (HR &VP)
Work Group Leader: Bill Weeks, MD, MBA, Medical Director for the Office of Professional Education and Outreach, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Co-Chair: Tyler Jung, MD, Medical Director of Inpatient Services and Clinical High Risk Programs, HealthCare Partners Medical Group
• Inventory and evaluation of methods for identifying and stratifying HR&VP
• Lessons learned when engaging and managing HR&VP
• Data required to support the identification, stratification, engagement and management of HR&VP