Spring 2024 Conference
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Thursday, April 11 |
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7:00 am |
Registration Opens |
Key Foyers |
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7:30 am – 8:15 am |
Business Partner Sponsored Breakfast Bold Moves: Redefining the Game in Value-Based Healthcare with Technology and Collaboration In this session, attendees will gain perspectives from industry partners to see how their commitment to value-based care (VBC), use of HCC technology and population health management collaborative (PHMC) is proving to be a winning combination. Sponsored by Stanson Health, a PINC AI Solution |
Key 1 – 2 |
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7:30 am – 8:15 am |
Business Partner Sponsored Breakfast Incentivizing Your Post-acute Care Network to Meet Contract Metrics This session explores proven strategies ACOs can implement to engage their post-acute network (PAN) in driving care outcomes to meet specific value-based contract goals. Participants will learn how live post-acute data transparency goes beyond ADT and claims data to deliver the live clinical insights needed, at both the patient and facility level, to successfully guide and manage their PAN. Sponsored by Real Time Medical Systems |
Key 3 – 4 |
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7:30 am – 8:15 am |
Business Partner Sponsored Breakfast Taking Ownership of the Total Cost of Care with Atlantic Health System: Empowering Coordinated Care Through High-performing PAC Networks This session will walk attendees through the challenges faced by Atlantic Health's integrated care team, from addressing missing information in EHRs to overcoming staffing challenges and gaining visibility into where, when and why patients are seeking care for targeted interventions. Learn how they strategically reduce avoidable readmissions, conduct targeted transitional care management activities, and efficiently manage throughput and length of stay. Sponsored by WellSky |
Key 9 – 10 |
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8:30 am – 10:00 am |
Opening Plenary CMS Leaders Fireside Chat |
Key 5 – 8 |
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10:00 am – 10:30 am |
Break Exhibits Open |
Key Foyers |
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10:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Embracing AI, ML, NLP Tools for ACOs Without Breaking the Bank ACOs will share practical approaches to enable adoption of AI, ML, MLP tools for various use-cases while sharing successful and challenging implementation lessons. |
Key 1 – 2 |
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10:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Engaging and Aligning Post Acute Care Providers in a Value Based World This session will focus on the need for ACOs to creatively engage and align with post acute providers. Post acute providers feel carved out of the value-based care system and this panel will discuss ways for ACO to leverage these providers to get better and more sustainable outcomes while enhancing alignment in the care delivery system. These experts will debate the different ways in which to tackle this challenge and propose actual change to today's environment. |
Key 3 – 4 |
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10:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Setting Sail: What Is the Future Direction of Your MSSP ACO? Hear from leaders of successful MSSP ACOs on where they are headed in the next five years. We'll discuss recent changes to the model and how ACOs are course correcting, advancing and retreating; new clinical initiatives that ACOs are investing in now to overcome obstacles on the horizon; and how these ACOs think about new models: do they long for REACH, see storms brewing? Identify your headwinds and tailwinds as you launch your ACO or move into your new agreement period. |
Key 9 – 10 |
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10:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Encompassing Medicaid and Uninsured in your Value-Based Care Initiatives Explore strategies for aligning Medicaid and uninsured populations with your ACO's value-based care goals. Hear from ACOs comprised of FQHCs and RHCs as they share innovative techniques, including data analytics, pilot programs, and practice transformation strategies. Learn how to strengthen your ACO's relationship with Medicaid through effective data utilization. Don't miss this opportunity to gain practical insights and connect with peers in the evolving landscape of value-based care. |
Key 11 – 12 |
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12:00 pm – 1:30 pm |
Networking Lunch |
Key 5 – 8 |
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1:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Can We Change Care, Experience and Total Cost at End of Life? Join experts with clinical, analytic, and operational perspectives to review case studies of palliative and end-of-life care strategies which have changed practice workflows, patient experience, provider engagement, and ACO results. |
Key 1 – 2 |
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1:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
What Really Matters to Patients? Aligning ACO Engagement Efforts with Patient Preferences Effectively engaging patients in their health care is critical to the success of ACOs and will be essential to achieving CMS’s goal to have all Medicare beneficiaries in an accountable care relationship by 2030. This session will highlight patient preferences and consumer principles for value-based care and discuss how to align ACO efforts with these insights. Speakers will review ACOs’ innovative approaches to engaging patients, including automated engagements to reach broad populations, leveraging data to identify patients motivated to participate in programs or interventions, and engaging patients at the point-of-care through shared decision making. |
Key 3 – 4 |
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1:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Digital Quality Measures: The Economics, Infrastructure, and Policy That Will Drive Future Success This session will detail stories of how ACOs have set their roadmap Digital Quality Reporting, so that others can understand the process of setting it, the decision points and what the outcomes for some have been on executing those strategies. |
Key 9 – 10 |
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1:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Physician Enablement Strategies to Improve ACO Performance Panelists will describe how ACOs are using purpose-built tools and data science to enable providers and care teams to lower the cost of care. Join the discussion of emerging value-based care models, challenges ACOs face in setting primary care providers up for success, and how physician enablement technology and workflows are driving outcomes. |
Key 11 – 12 |
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3:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Break Exhibits Open |
Key Foyers |
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3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Affinity Group Meeting – Data and Analytics Affinity Group Meeting – Quality Affinity Group Meeting – CMO and Clinical Affinity Group Meeting – Executive Affinity Group Meeting – Operations Affinity Group Meeting – Compliance and Legal |
Key 1 – 2
Key 5 – 8
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5:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
Reception Exhibits Open |
Key Foyers |
Friday, April 12 |
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Time |
Session |
Location |
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7:00 am |
Registration Open |
Key Foyers |
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7:30 am – 8:15 am |
Business Partner Sponsored Breakfast The Design and Application of Lab Data as the Gatekeeper for Value-based, Population Health Management The strategic integration of lab data plays a crucial role in enhancing healthcare outcomes and cost of care. We will unravel lab data's transformative impact on shaping proactive healthcare strategies, optimizing resource allocation, and fostering a more efficient and patient-centric approach. By leveraging lab data, care teams can make informed decisions, identify high-risk populations, and unlock the full potential of value-based care initiatives. Sponsored by The Garage |
Key 3 – 4 |
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7:30 am – 8:15 am |
Business Partner Sponsored Breakfast 90 Days to Results: Learn How Indiana University Health Quickly Reduced SNF Length of Stay by Three Days Recognizing the complexity and critical nature of post-acute care, IU Health leveraged the software and expertise of Olio to implement a highly effective strategy aimed at enhancing both internal/external accountability and process scalability within its post-acute care network across 214 Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). This session highlights the role of Olio's software and the dedication of four post-acute case managers making an impact for IU Health by setting new standards for care transitions, and keeping 800+ post-acute users engaged daily on care strategies and barriers to discharge. Sponsored by Olio |
Key 9 – 10 |
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7:30 am – 8:15 am |
Business Partner Sponsored Breakfast Navigating 5 Common Pitfalls of Medicare ACOs Our team of consultants will dissect five pitfalls that can derail your ACO's progress and offer practical solutions to avoiding or overcoming these obstacles. The challenges highlighted in this session come directly from our experience supporting more than 175 Medicare ACOs (spanning MSSP, NextGen, Direct Contracting, and REACH ACOs) in recent years. This session is designed to turn potential roadblocks into opportunities for growth and success in your ACO journey. Sponsored by Milliman |
Key 11 – 12 |
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8:30 am – 9:30 am |
Plenary: Moving to Value-Based Care on All Lines of Business: Best Practices for Implementation Physicians, practices, VBC entities, and health plans have made great strides over the last decade toward adopting various forms of VBC payment and demonstrating a commitment to improving quality and cost. Today, more than 75% of organizations participating in Medicare ACO arrangements in 2022 had VBP arrangements with MA or commercial plans and more than 30% had such arrangements in Medicaid. In 2022, NAACOS, AHIP, and the AMA began a collaboration to identify voluntary best practices for advancing a sustainable future for value-based care. This session will highlight best practices for engaging in total cost of care payment arrangements. |
Key 5 – 8 |
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9:30 am – 10:00 am |
Break Exhibits Open |
Key Foyers |
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10:00 am – 11:30 am |
Unlocking the Power of Integrated Care: Transforming Healthcare through Behavioral Health Integration Discover the impact of integrating behavioral health into primary healthcare, unlocking early access to mental healthcare, improving care coordination, and enhancing chronic disease treatment. Collaborative Care Management (CoCM), an integrated behavioral health model, has shown remarkable results in improving depression scores, as well as enhancing the experience for both patients and providers. Join this session to explore the economic and patient care benefits that academic, community, and payer settings have realized from the integration of physical and behavioral health services. |
Key 1 – 2 |
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10:00 am – 11:30 am |
Voice of the Patient: Quality Measurement Join us as we speak frankly with a representative from a patient advocacy group, a policy expert and an ACO executive about WHY patients' perception of quality matters, WHAT patients want to know about quality and HOW to bring the voice of the patient into ACO operations. We will seek to understand how we, as an industry, can do better on the important topic of quantifying quality. |
Key 3 – 4 |
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10:00 am – 11:30 am |
Washington Update Through advocacy and thought leadership, NAACOS aims to advance ACOs and value-based care. Join this session to hear an update on Congress and Administration activities and market trends that may impact you. Additionally, the NAACOS team will review our 2024 advocacy priorities. We’ll be ready to answer any of your policy questions. |
Key 9 – 10 |
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10:00 am – 11:30 am |
Operationalizing Medicaid Care Models This session will cover the stakeholders in Medicaid and what ACOs need to know about this population and their needs. Speakers will also provide insight into effective care models including the member perspective. |
Key 11 – 12 |
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11:30 am – 11:45 am |
Break |
Key Foyers |
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11:45 am – 1:15 pm |
Explore and Debate…..Whose Role Is It for SDoH - Public Health, Health Systems or Health Plans? The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution delegates public health powers to the states, and without a federal framework and funding this responsibility is unclear and the work often falls to the delivery systems and others. In this session we will debate the roles and responsibilities of health systems, health plans, and public health when it comes to screening, paying, and improving health outcomes for social determinants of health (SDoH). Panelists will describe how ACOs approach the SDoH framework and the strategies for funding through community benefit, per member per month fees with health plans, grants/ donations, and new CMS payments for assessments. Participants will gain an understanding of the six SDoH domains, responsibilities, and integration for better health outcomes. |
Key 3 – 4 |
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11:45 am – 1:15 pm |
Keys to ACO Success ACOs have proven to improve outcomes and lower costs for the beneficiaries that they serve. But what drives that success? This panel will engage in a discussion of the strategies and practices used to lead high-performing ACOs. We will also provide highlights of the forthcoming Drivers for ACO Success white paper. |
Key 9 – 10 |
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11:45 am – 1:15 pm |
Learning from MA Care Models Leaders from Trinity Health, Intermountain Health, Advocate Health and Medical Home Network will review how they are translating care models from Medicare Advantage (MA) to MSSP, REACH, ACA and beyond. The panel will review the growth trend of MA, some of the challenges that have faced the program, and how they have seen payer and provider partnerships help transform care delivery. |
Key 11 – 12 |
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1:15 pm – 3:00 pm |
Lunch CMS Town Hall This session includes a town hall format and is an important way for ACOs and CMS to have an open dialogue about important Administration priorities, the shift to value-based care, and the Medicare ACO program, including discussion on evolving policies and how ACOs and DCEs fit into CMS’s overall goal of improving Medicare payment and healthcare delivery. This is an excellent opportunity for ACO and DCE executives to pose questions and receive answers directly from CMS leaders and to hear the newest developments straight from the agency. |
Key 5 – 8 |