Revenue Patients Revenue & Patients Margin
Remain Independent Financial Security Work / Life Balance Improved Patient Care Job Growth
Improving the Circumstance for Physicians Improves the Circumstance for Patients Improving the Circumstance for Patients Lowers Aggregate Healthcare Spending Lowering Aggregate Healthcare Spending Benefits all Stakeholders...
Understanding the Business Value of the Medical Home Model of Primary Care ◦ Establishing the Value Proposition ◦ Alignment with “Ultimate” Payers for “ROI” ◦ Securing “Featured & Favored” Status For Primary Care For Specialists
“Admitting” Patients Managing the Relationship with Patients Implementing Annual “Organizing Visits” Co-Location of Services ◦ Physical ◦ Virtual Re-train / Re-deploy Support Staff Develop “Value Based” Reporting ◦ Changes in Health Status (Circumstance) ◦ Changes in Aggregate Spending ◦ Ensuring High Levels of Patient Satisfaction
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Cornell Program for Healthy Living ◦ 12% Year over year increases for Cornell University as an employer ◦ High worker’s comp costs / High rates of absenteeism ◦ High rate of psychotropic drug use Calsonic Kansei ◦ Maintain 0% benefit plan cost increases ◦ Improve transparency ◦ More “intelligent” benefit plan redesign
Results ◦ 15 “PHO” affiliated Primary Care Practices were “Featured & Favored” ◦ Approximately 9,000 “New Patients” admitted among the “Featured & Favored” Out of area PCPs Medically “Homeless” ◦ $350 Per Patient Per Year – “Organizing Visit” ◦ $1,500 Per Patient Per Year Reduction in Aggregate Spend (4:1 ROI)
3,538 patient lives (1,717 employees / 4,252 total lives TN, MI, & MS) Maximized “cost shift” “On – Site” Clinic “Wellness Programming”
The Strategy ◦ Select an “Overflow” Primary Care Practice to “Feature & Favor” ◦ Commence PCMH Transformation with that Practice ◦ Implement Benefit Plan Changes / Incentives ◦ Modify the compensation formula for this “Featured & Favored” practice ◦ “Enroll” New Patients in Tennessee Medicine & Pediatrics – 350 new patients ◦ Implement the “Organizing Visit” Process of Care
Early Results ◦ 2010 to 2011 (rolling 12 months) $10,671,542 ◦ 2011 to 2012 (rolling 12 months) $8,706,936 ◦ Reduction in spending $1,964,605
Public & Private Employers (NY, NJ, TN, MI, MS, VA, NC, SC ◦ “Directed Primary Care Program” ◦ “Network” of “High Performing” Primary Care Practices to be “Featured & Favored” / “Preferred Specialists” to be referred to ◦ Targeting “hospital employed” PCP patients through a “vestibule” to care strategy built on the “Organizing Visit” (ACA preventive benefits)
Family Practice Community / CPHL Sleep Centers of Middle Tennessee / Calsonic Kansai Southern Tier Surgical Clinic ◦ Urban Family Practice ◦ Riverdale Family Medicine ◦ Endwell Family Physicians
Hospital Systems Health Plans Employer “Coalitions” Human Resource Departments Pharmacies / “Discount Stores”
Employers – Self-Funded / Experience Rated ◦ Public ◦ Private “Pure Play” Third Party Administrators Publicly Funded Programs ◦ Medicaid / Child Health Programs ◦ Medicare ACOs
Assess Your Appetite for Innovation / Change Inventory Existing Patient Population ◦ Employers ◦ Payer Mix ◦ Publicly Funded Programs Assess Your Practice’s Current Capabilities Develop a Gap Analysis / Plan for Innovation Implement the Plan
Jed Constantz