Healthcare Innovation June 24, 2020
David Raths

Population health teams have flexibility to redeploy resources, personnel to critical needs

In the wake of the pandemic, health systems have been forced to pivot quickly to redeploy personnel and other resources to support front-line clinicians and reach out to vulnerable populations. During a recent panel discussion, three executives discussed how their experience with value-based care models made them nimble enough to respond.

Speaking during the spring meeting of the National Association of ACOs, Mike Hebert, R.N., M.S.N., M.B.A., senior director UM (utilization management) of care management and geriatrics for Massachusetts-based Reliant Medical Group, noted that earlier work the multispecialty group practice did pre-COVID paid off when the emergency struck.

Reliant has established referral management teams and on-site population health...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Equity/SDOH, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Payment Models, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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