CO-LOCATED POPULATION HEALTH ALLIANCE ANNUAL FORUM
Thursday, October 8, 2020
(Registration optional; Separate Registration Required)
PHA FORUM 2020: SUCCEEDING IN VALUE BASED CARE: LEVERAGING POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
11:00 AM EDT
Welcome Address: State of the Union in Population Health Management: The Value Based Care Levers
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Billy Oglesby, PhD, MBA, MSPH, FACHE
Interim Dean and Associate Professor, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Interim Dean and Associate Professor, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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Jaan Sidorov, MD, FACP, CMCE, MHSA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Care Centered Collaborative; President, Population Health Alliance, Harrisburg, PA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Care Centered Collaborative; President, Population Health Alliance, Harrisburg, PA
11:30 AM EDT
In Search of the Healthcare Easy Button: Making What the Patient Needs the Path of Least Resistance
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John Bulger, DO, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger Health Plan, Danville, PA
Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger Health Plan, Danville, PA
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Anand Iyer, PhD, MBA, MS
Chief Strategy Officer, Welldoc, Washington, DC
Chief Strategy Officer, Welldoc, Washington, DC
12:15 PM EDT
A Spectrum of Approaches to Connect Employees to Trusted and Sustained Health Care
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Tanya Benenson, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Comcast, New York, NY
Chief Medical Officer, Comcast, New York, NY
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Cathryn Gunther
Vice President, Global Population Health, Merck, North Wales, PA
Vice President, Global Population Health, Merck, North Wales, PA
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Ray Fabius, MD, CPE, FACPE
Co-Founder & President, HealthNEXT, Newtown Square, PA (Moderator)
Co-Founder & President, HealthNEXT, Newtown Square, PA (Moderator)
Throughout a successful career, Dr. Raymond Fabius has garnered medical and business leadership experience in an extraordinary variety of healthcare management areas including strategy, operations, network development and oversight, patient management, quality management, disease management, national accounts, occupational health, emergency preparedness, pandemic response, worker productivity, wellness and wellness promotion, travel medicine, health education, and data warehousing and analytics. He has served as a physician executive in academics, private practice, managed care, the health insurance industry, e-health, corporate health, workplace health, the pharmaceutical industry, and health informatics. He is the author of five books including the leading textbook in population health. Presently he is the co-founder of HealthNEXT – the leader in building sustainable corporate cultures of health and wellbeing. His company performs comprehensive assessments to identify gaps from benchmark and builds multi-year strategic plans to allow client companies to achieve best practice.
1:15 PM EDT
Transition Break
1:30 PM EDT
Plenary Panel: Leveraging Technology to Improve Data Aggregation, Interoperability and Quality Measures in Value-Based Contracts
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Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer, HealthEC, Piscataway, NJ
Chief Information Officer, HealthEC, Piscataway, NJ
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Jake Peltzman, MBA, MPH
Executive Director, Women & Children’s Health Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Executive Director, Women & Children’s Health Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
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Sandeep Wadhwa, MD
Chief Health Officer and Senior Vice President Market Innovation, Solera, Denver, CO (Moderator)
Chief Health Officer and Senior Vice President Market Innovation, Solera, Denver, CO (Moderator)
Dr. Wadhwa is Chief Health Officer, Solera Health. He is a population health leader focused on improving the health status of vulnerable populations, particularly for those in poverty, people with disabilities, and older adults. He has extensive corporate and government experience. He is responsible for curating national networks of digital and community, evidence-based, lifestyle interventions that have not previously been covered by health insurers. Dr. Wadhwa previously served as the State Medicaid Director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing where he led the design of the Accountable Care Collaborative. His prior experiences include management of payment and quality at 3M Health Information Systems and at McKesson heading up their care management services efforts. He continues to precept at Seniors Clinic at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
2:15 PM EDT
Plenary Panel: Applying Leading Edge Technology to Connect Community and Care
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Alisha Fehrenbacher, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer, Elevate Health; President & Chair, OnePierce Community Resiliency Fund, Tacoma, WA
Chief Executive Officer, Elevate Health; President & Chair, OnePierce Community Resiliency Fund, Tacoma, WA
Alisha Fehrenbacher’s commitment to health equity and innovation is represented by her dedication to the Quadruple Aim: better health; better care; better value; and better experience of care. She promotes this work through community activation and collaboration. She serves on the Integration Oversight Board, Statewide Workforce Council and is the Committee Co-Chair for the Regional System of Care Committee, which is focused on improving behavioral health, physical health and the criminal justice system. As Empire Health Foundation’s Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Health Systems, she supported the foundation of Washington’s Accountable Communities of Health. She founded a health collaborative in Oregon, obtaining legislative approval launching a community-based health plan that provided value-based contracts and community-based care coordination. She also serves as Senior Advisor for Pathways Community Hub Institute. Her transformational strategy supported the development of an Oregon Coordinated Care Organization and served as a health system executive leading strategy, community benefit and population health.
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David Nace, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Innovaccer, San Francisco, CA
Chief Medical Officer, Innovaccer, San Francisco, CA
Dr. David Nace is the Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer where its category-creating healthcare data activation platform is on a mission to organize healthcare information and make it accessible, useful and actionable. He has over 25 years of executive management experience in healthcare, having served in a Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer roles with United Health Group, Aetna, and McKesson Corporation, with a more recent focus on early stage innovation development in Silicon Valley. Dr. Nace completed his medical education and residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he subsequently served as junior faculty in his early career.
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Mary Jane Osmick, MD
Principal, Mary Jane Osmick MD Consulting, LLC, West Chester, PA (Moderator)
Principal, Mary Jane Osmick MD Consulting, LLC, West Chester, PA (Moderator)
Dr. Osmick is a physician consultant with extensive experience in leading vendor, provider, employer and health plan businesses with the goal of improving the health of populations served. As an executive physician, she focuses on helps to design systems of care that support health risk reduction, chronic health condition control, wellbeing support and disease prevention, as well as on quality management and accreditation of systems in place. A special area of interest includes working with organizations, as well as teaching closing gaps on health equity and social determinants of health. She serves in peer review of research articles related to population health and speaks nationally on related subjects. Dr. Osmick has served as a board member of Population Health Alliance since 2016, and from 2018 through 2019 led the Quality and Research Committee that developed and published an extensive primer on taking action in social determinants of health. She also serves as a clinical advisor for a health technology company.
3:00 PM EDT
Transition Break
3:15 PM EDT
Plenary Panel: Driving Value Through Partnerships on Social Determinants of Health
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Caroline Carney, MS, RDN
Vice President, Business Development, Good Measures, Boston, MA
Vice President, Business Development, Good Measures, Boston, MA
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Audrey Sefakis, RN, BSN, CCM
Director of Care Management, Commercial Products, Tufts Health Plan, Watertown, MA
Director of Care Management, Commercial Products, Tufts Health Plan, Watertown, MA
Audrey Sefakis is the Director of Case Management, Commercial Products at Tufts Health Plan. She is a Registered Nurse, a Certified Case Manager and holds a B.S. degree from Simmons University, Boston, MA.
At Tufts Health Plan, she is part of the Population Health team and is an active member on several cross-functional committees and Business Resource Groups. She has worked to improve member/employee engagement scores, staff productivity, and member reach/engagement rates. Her team focuses on all medical, behavioral, and social aspects of health to impact positive member self-management.
At Tufts Health Plan, she is part of the Population Health team and is an active member on several cross-functional committees and Business Resource Groups. She has worked to improve member/employee engagement scores, staff productivity, and member reach/engagement rates. Her team focuses on all medical, behavioral, and social aspects of health to impact positive member self-management.
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Congresswoman Allyson Y. Schwartz
President & CEO, Better Medicare Alliance, Jenkintown, PA (Moderator)
President & CEO, Better Medicare Alliance, Jenkintown, PA (Moderator)
4:15 PM EDT
Closing Keynote – Deploying Population Health Management Strategies in Complex Health Systems: Lessons from the Department of Veterans Affairs
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David Shulkin, MD
Ninth Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; President, Shulkin Solutions, LLC; Former President and CEO, Beth Israel Medical Center, Washington, DC
Ninth Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; President, Shulkin Solutions, LLC; Former President and CEO, Beth Israel Medical Center, Washington, DC
The Honorable David Shulkin was the Ninth Secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Previously he served as the Under Secretary of Health for VA. He served in both the Obama and Trump Administrations was confirmed by the Senate 100-0 on both confirmations. Secretary Shulkin is the author of “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans”
4:45 PM EDT
Closing Remarks: Population Health Management in 2020: Kicking it into High Gear
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Rose Maljanian
Chairman & CEO, HealthCAWS; Chairman Emeritus, Population Health Alliance, Hartford, CT
Chairman & CEO, HealthCAWS; Chairman Emeritus, Population Health Alliance, Hartford, CT
Rose Maljanian is an accomplished senior executive driving innovation, positive organizational change and results for over 30 years. Leadership experience spans population health management, managed care, delivery systems and investment firms. Rose is Founder, Chairman & CEO HealthCAWS, Inc. focused on accountability and supports to improve health and reduce costs via strategic advisory, QI and consumer portals. At WaveEdge Capital, Rose serves as Business Advisor – digital health, behavioral health, senior and home care. Previously, Rose was SVP Product Innovation at Magellan, a multi-specialty managed care company leading initiatives with major impact on the company’s revenue base. Prior, she served as VP, Clinical Interventions, Innovation Center at Humana. At Hartford Hospital she founded and served as chief executive, Institute for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, developing and evaluating initiatives across the enterprise and community. Rose serves as Board Chairman Emeritus, Population Health Alliance and on Advisory Boards for URAC and RISE.
5:00 PM EDT
Forum Adjournment