Achieving Comprehensive, Equitable Primary Care Services: How Risk Adjustment for Medical and Social Complexity Helps

The National Academy of Medicine (NASEM) calls for shifting primary care payment to hybrid models (part fee-for-service, part capitation) and recommends such models “be risk-adjusted for medical and social complexity.” The PCC is excited to host leading experts to discuss data sources and models used to identify medical risk and social complexity, their strengths and limitations, and how they can support comprehensive, equitable primary care.

Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH

Founding Executive Director, The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care, American Board of Family Medicine Foundation
Robert Phillips is a graduate of the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Florida College of Medicine, where he graduated with honors for special distinction. He completed training in family medicine at the University of Missouri in 1998, followed by a two-year fellowship in health services research and public health. After fellowship, Dr. Phillips became assistant director of the Robert Graham Center, Washington D.C., and from 2004 to 2012, he served as its director. In 2012, he moved to the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) as Vice President for Research and Policy, where he led the launch of a national clinical registry. Dr. read more

Robert Saunders

Senior Research Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Dr. Saunders is Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation at Duke-Margolis.  In this role, he directs a portfolio of payment and delivery reform initiatives, which focus on ACOs, alternative payment models for specialty care, new payment and delivery approaches for serious illness care, and translating evidence to policy-relevant options. read more

Tracey Henry

Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University
Dr. Henry is a general internist in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, where she provides primary care to resource poor populations in Atlanta, GA. She is an attending physician for the inpatient teaching services at Grady Memorial Hospital and Assistant Health Director and supervising attending in the Primary Care Center. Dr. Henry earned her MS in Neuroscience at Tulane University, MD at Georgetown University and a MPH from Johns Hopkins University in Health Systems and Policy and a certificate in Finance and Management. During residency, she served on ACPs national Council of Residents/Fellows and the Louisiana State Medical Society Board of Governors and was awarded the American Medical Association (AMA)s Paul Ambrose Award for Leadership Among Resident Physicians. Dr. read more
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