Providing Accountable Care: The Train is Leaving the Station
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Steven E. Wegner, MD JDChair, NCMS Accountable Care Task Force
Paul Cunningham, MDNCMS Accountable Care Task Force
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What is this?
…and why should I care?
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4- Peter Orszag, N Engl J Med, 2007
5- Baicker et al. Health Affairs web exclusives, October 7, 2004
“ Even if federal health overhaul is rejected by the Supreme Court or revamped by Congress, the market must continue to change. The system that brought us to this place is unsustainable. Employers who foot the bill for workers’ health coverage are demanding that BlueCross identify the providers with the highest quality outcomes and lowest costs.”
- Brad Wilson, President of BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina6
“ACOs consist of providers who are jointly held accountable for achieving measured quality improvements and reductions in the rate of spending growth.”
- Mark McClellan, Director of the Engleberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution
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ACOs are not gate keeper; ACOs do not require patient enrollment.
ACOs do not require changes to benefit structures.
Can provide or manage continuum of care as a real or virtually integrated delivery system.
Are of a sufficient size to support comprehensive performance measurements.
Are capable of internally distributing shared savings payment.
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FFS Capitation ACO
Payment Model Providers are paid per service
Providing fixed, "upfront" payments unrelated to volume of services changes incentives.
Reduces incentives to increase volume and can work with other reforms that promote coordinated, lower-costs quality care.
Requires patients to enroll with specific providers
No Yes-Patients must enroll with designed provider
No-Patients can be assigned based on previous care patterns.
Strenghtens primary care/fosters care coordination
No- Little incentive to support primary care or coordination
Yes Yes
Fosters accountability for total per-capita costs and imporved quality
Little incentive to manange total per-capita costs or improve quality
Accountable for per capita cost Accountablity for costs in the form of shared savings with eligiblility for shared savings.
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More doctors are joining hospitals and health systems rather than go into private practice.
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Triple aim:
◦Population health status and outcomes of care
◦The care experience◦Total cost of care – Delivering the outcomes
Tightly aligned physician network Contracting capability Large enough population base Willingness to accept common cost and quality metrics
Sufficient data infrastructure
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1. People-centered foundation2. Health Home3. High-Value network4. Population health data management5. ACO leadership6. Payer Partnership
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Fee-for-service plus bonusBundled payments plus bonusGlobal capitationPartial capitation
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These Principles are:
1. Stakeholders should identify specific targets that reduce cost.
2. Evaluate objectively whether these targets were met.
3. They should share success financially.4. Should engage in a process of continued
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1. Quality2. Cost effectiveness3. Care-coordination
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ACO Impact ACOs have access to medical, pharmacy, and Laboratory claims from payers
Care Effectiveness/ Population Health
• Cancer Care Screenings• Diabetes Care (LDL and H1c tests, eye exams, etc.)• Coronary Artery Disease Care (LDL test)
Safety• High-risk medication for the elderly• Appropriate testing for patients using high-risk
medicationsPatient Engagement
Overuse/ Efficiency
• Imaging for low back pain (in absence of “red flags”) during first 30 days
• Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing• Utilization rates of select services (e.g., C-
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ACO ImpactACOs use specific clinical data (e.g., electronic laboratory results) and limited survey data
Care Effectiveness/ Population Health
• Immunization rates for children and adolescents• Patients with diabetes whose blood sugar (H1c) is in control• Patients with diabetes or ischemic vascular disease whose
lipids (LDL) are in control• Patients with hypertension whose blood pressure is in control
Safety • “Never events” in hospitalsPatient Engagement
• Physician instructions understood (CAHPS)• Care received when needed (CAHPS)
Overuse/ Efficiency
• Episode-based resource use – linked to quality measures for common medical (e.g. diabetes, AMI) and common surgical conditions (e.g. hip replacement)
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Reduced hospitalizations and other wastes. Care coordination and care transition for
chronic disease and complex patients. Internal process improvement. Informed patient choices. Prevention and wellness.
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Coordination between PCPs and specialists.
Support for preventing complications in specialty care and reducing costs.
Successful ACOs will promote more effective specialists care and PCP-specialists coordination and higher-value specialty care.
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1. Quality 2. Cost effectiveness3. Care-coordination
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1. Quality2. Cost effectiveness3. Care-coordination
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4. Culture of teamwork X 2
Best practices for specialty coordination with medical homes
Best practices for all specialty procedure registries/patient tracking for improving care-and supporting meaningful performance measurements
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Improved professional working environment Realization that at some point volume and
intensity will not be able to be increased further
Understanding that the care currently being delivered is not in the best interest of our country or patients
Knowledge of continued reform attempts by all healthcare stakeholders to improve quality and bend the cost curve
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