As a participant in CMS Physician Group Practice Demonstration project, Dartmouth-Hitchcock has developed a competency in population health management that is being deployed in ongoing ACO pilots with Medicare and Cigna and in an ACO pilot in development with Anthem/WellPoint.
Listen to pre-conference comments from Dr. Barbara Walters.
During Leveraging Population Health Management To Meet Accountable Care Organization Efficiency Metrics, a 45-minute recorded webinar on June 1st, Dr. Barbara Walters, senior medical director with Dartmouth-Hitchcock, shares how the pilots have demonstrated the value of an ACO by achieving efficiency, quality and cost targets. You will learn:
- The shared savings and total cost of care payment methodology developed by Dartmouth and Cigna for commercial members attributed to Dartmouth;
- The new roles and responsibilities within an ACO to efficiently manage the health of a population, including strategies for practicing at the top of license;
- Developing a collaborative model of care that allocates resources to manage illness burdens, gaps in care and care plans of a defined patient population; and
- Results from Dartmouths ACO pilots with CMS and Cigna, including where Dartmouth has achieved better than market results for these programs.
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WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS CONFERENCE?
CEOs, medical directors, hospital and health system executives, health plan executives, physician executives and business development and strategic planning directors.
ABOUT OUR PANELIST:
Dr. Barbara Walters
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Dr. Barbara Walters, D.O., M.B.A., is currently senior medical director for Dartmouth-Hitchcocks Southern New Hampshire community group practices and is responsible for the management of ambulatory practice operations located in 15 locations. In addition, she is responsible for commercial payor contracting for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock system and is the principal investigator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration Project.
Board-certified in psychiatry and neurology, Dr. Walters came to Dartmouth-Hitchcock in 1998 from the Carolina Permanente Medical Group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with extensive experience in group practice and managed care.
Dr. Walters earned her medical degree from Michigan State University, completed her internship in family practice at Lansing (Mich.) General Hospital in Lansing and her psychiatric residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Walters received her Masters in Business Administration from Duke University.
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