Ep 140 – Preparing for the Risk-Based Tsunami on the Horizon, with Dr. Brian Silverstein and Dr. Yates Lennon

What this episode covers

Are you ready for the risk-based tsunami on the horizon?  If you are a frequent listener to this show, you understand just how seismic this shift to value-based care really is and why we need the right culture, people, processes -- fueled by capital – to spawn care delivery innovation.  It is in reimagining care delivery that we can truly deliver on the aims of improved outcomes, lower cost, better patient experience, and equity for all populations. Joining us in this Race to Value this week are two outstanding leaders in the value movement, Drs. Brian Silverstein and Yates Lennon.  We discuss how organizations should be preparing for the risk-based tsunami on the horizon through care delivery innovation. Dr. Brian Silverstein is the Chief Population Health Officer for Innovaccer, a leading healthcare technology company committed to helping healthcare care as one. He is an expert in value-based care delivery and health system transformation with vast experience in helping providers improve population health initiatives.  And joining him in this interview is Dr. Yates Lennon, the President of CHESS Health Solutions – a population health MSO empowering physicians and health systems to make the transition to value-based care. Dr. Lennon has extensive experience in quality, practice transformation, and physician engagement and has been instrumental in teaching health systems and providers across the country how to transform patient care and shift to value-based payment. If you are looking to understand the state and science of value-based care, look no further than this conversation with two of the leading minds in industry transformation!   Episode Bookmarks: 01:30 The seismic shift towards value-based care and the risk-based tsunami on the horizon. 02:00 Introduction to Dr. Brian Silverstein and Dr. Yates Lennon 04:30 Progressing in the value journey by understanding the landscape 05:45 Dr. Lennon provides an overview of the value ecosystem with varying adoption of risk in provider organizations. 07:00 “The days of sitting on the sideline are running out.  It is time to get started with value-based care if you haven’t already.” 08:00 The State and Science of Digital Maturity at U.S. Healthcare Providers (a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, commissioned by Innovaccer) 09:30 Dr. Silverstein on the legitimacy of the value movement with perspective on how digital infrastructure impacts the pacing of adoption. 10:45 The differentiation of the technology stack utilized by providers accepting full risk-based payment. 12:00 Traversing the value landscape with emerging changes in payment model design focused on the reduction of health disparities. 13:30 Dr. Lennon on how VBP and population health technology tools are perfectly suited to address problems in health disparities. 14:00 Codifying the health equity design of the ACO REACH payment model into operational programs. 14:30 Ensuring access to care in a medical home – an example from Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 15:30 “Access is important in value-based care when attempting to address health equity.” 16:00 Focusing on the quality and performance improvement measures that can improve equity. 16:30 Clinical workflow optimization and the use of Community Health Workers to conduct patient outreach. 17:00 Leveraging community resources to address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). 17:30 findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha) and Unite Us as examples of technology platforms that can improve SDOH interventions and community partnerships. 18:15 Lifestyle coaching to improve health outcomes with dual eligible populations. 19:00 Dr. Silverstein explains how traditional healthcare will not able to improve population health outcomes in a silo. 20:00 The correlation between a patient’s zip code and their overall health and wellbein...