Primary Care: More of It Bends the Cost Curve for ACOs

Results from the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) suggest that ACOs with more PCPs and more care provided by PCPs are associated with higher shared savings. Is Medicare leveraging this learning? Are ACOs? Join us for a timely discussion and help us share these findings.

Resources: 

Wakely Report

AAFP Value Based Payment

Avalere Report

Ann Greiner, MCP

President & Chief Executive Officer, Primary Care Collaborative
Ann Greiner serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), where she is focused on defining and implementing an advocacy, research and education agenda that furthers comprehensive, team-based and patient-centered primary care.  read more

Brad Heywood, ASA, MAAA

Consulting Actuary, Wakely
Brad Heywood, ASA, MAAA, has been with Wakely Consulting Group, LLC, an HMA Company for over 5 years, and he is based out of Utah. Since joining Wakely, he has been involved in a wide variety of areas within healthcare actuarial consulting. read more

Hunter Schouweiler, MS-HSM

Senior Consultant, Wakely
Hunter Schouweiler, MS-HSM, joined Wakely in May 2021. His primary focus is working with provider organizations on their value-based program strategies and supporting their operations to drive success in their alternative payment models. Additionally, he supports health plans in their efforts to build or enhance their alternative payment model strategies with their provider networks. Hunter has work with and advised providers in both government programs (such as the MSSP and various CMMI models) and private payer alternative payment models. read more

Karen Johnson, PhD

Vice President, Practice Advancement, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Karen S. Johnson, Ph.D. Vice President, Practice Advancement American Academy of Family Physicians Karen is an accomplished leader with experience that spans traditional health care boundaries having worked with employers, plans, providers, and health systems over her 30+ year career. Understanding each of these unique perspectives fuels her work as a translator, bridge-builder and change agent. Her long-standing personal mission is to make healthcare work better for more people at a cost they can afford. 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
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