Implications of Global Experiences with Accountable Care

This project aims to address these challenges by accelerating the uptake of successful policy, payment, and delivery innovations from abroad that can improve the care of high-need, high-cost populations in the US. Our team will identify globally proven solutions that can be integrated with emerging local, state, and national payment facing US healthcare institutions. We will use these findings to demonstrate how organizations can draw on global experiences to create a combination of innovations that can succeed under new payment models to help address currently unmet challenges to providing integrated, comprehensive care to high-need, high-cost patients.

This work is currently at the end of Phase 1 and beginning of Phase 2, identifying international innovations or models that address the identified challenges. Below is a table showing the outlined phases for this project:

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This project builds upon previous work regarding the implications of global experiences with accountable care for the United States' healthcare system with the aim of accelerating uptake of successful experiences with accountable care and other innovations in the US by promoting the exchange of best practices and knowledge. Based on prior work supported by the Commonwealth Fund, the Duke-Margolis team is identifying practical lessons that can be adopted by a wide range of policy makers and payers in the US to accelerate health care reform domestically. Recently, the team was awarded a follow-on project to accelerate the uptake of successful policy, payment, and delivery innovations from abroad and identify US healthcare systems and/or communities to implement major components of or full integrated delivery and payment reforms.

The project case studies on lessons learned, released January 30, 2017 at a public event, “Translating International Models of Care for High-Need, High-Cost Populations in the United States” as well as the associated research articles:

Research Team

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director, Duke-Margolis

Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc
Managing Associate

Krishna Udayakumar, MD, MBA
Founding Faculty, Duke-Margolis
Associate Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Associate Professor - Track IV in Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, MPAff
Senior Research Assistant

Alexander Gunn, MBS
Research Assistant

Nicole Davis
Program Intern, Innovations in Healthcare

Kushal Kadakia
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Advisory Group

2017-2018

William Conway, CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group

Molly Coye, Executive in Residence, AVIA

Victor Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine

Don Goldmann, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Mark Humowiecki, General Counsel and Senior Director, Camden Coalition

Ann Lewis, CEO, CareSouth Carolina

Brian Marcotte, President and CEO, National Business Group on Health

Jose Peña, CEO, CMO, Rio Grande Valley ACO

Jonathan Perlin, President, Hospital Corporation of America

Mai Pham, Vice President, Anthem

David Pryor, Executive Vice President, Ascension

Dave Richard, Deputy Secretary for Medical Assistance, North Carolina DHHS

Iyah Romm, Care CEO, Sidewalk Labs

Lew Sandy, Senior Vice President, UnitedHealth Group

Deidra Singleton, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Ross Wilson, Chief Medical Officer, New York Health and Hospitals Corporation

2016-2017

Jeffrey Brenner, Medical Director, Urban Health Institute and Executive Director, Camden Coalition

William Conway, CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group and Executive Vice President, Henry Ford Health System

Molly J. Coye, Social Entrepreneur in Residence, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation

Victor J. Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine and Vice Chair, National Research Council

Palmer “Pal” Evans, Executive-in-Residence, Management Innovations in Health Care, Eller College of Management, the University of Arizona

Robert Galvin, Chief Executive Officer, Equity Healthcare

Don Goldmann, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Ann Lewis, Chief Executive Officer, CareSouth Carolina

David Morales, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Steward Health Care System

Stephen Ondra, Senior Vice President and Enterprise Chief Medical Officer, Health Care Service Corporation

Bela Patel, Assistant Dean of Healthcare Quality and Division Director for Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston

Jose Peña, CEO and Chief Medical Director, Rio Grande Valley Accountable Care Organization

Jonathan B. Perlin, President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer, Hospital Corporation of America

Hoangmai Pham, Chief Innovation Officer and Acting Director of the Policy and Programs Group, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

David B. Pryor, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Ascension

Steven M. Safyer, President, Chief Executive Officer, Montefiore Medicine

Lewis G. Sandy, Senior Vice President of Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group

Ross Wilson, Senior Vice President of Quality, Corporate Chief Medical Officer, and a Corporate Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals

Funding

This project is funded by The Commonwealth Fund. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Commonwealth Fund.

Implications of Global Experiences with Accountable Care