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Let us know what you think about Health Affairs podcasts at communications@healthaffairs.org. If you have 30 minutes to spare, let us know and we'll set up a 30-minute chat for the first 20 listeners that reach out. Coffee will be on us.Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Farzad Mostashari, founder & CEO of Aledade and the former National Coordinator for Health IT, to the pod to break down insights in the latest MedPAC report, quality measurement reform, and areas of opportunity for value-based care.Health Affairs is hosting an Insider exclusive event on May 29 focusing on the FDA's first 100 days under the second Trump administration featuring moderator Rachel Sachs alongside panelists Richard Hughes IV and Arti Rai.Related Links:Crossing the Chasm: How to Expand Adoption of Value-Based Care (The New England Journal of Medicine)2025 MedPAC Report
Aledade CEO, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, and best-selling author Geoffrey Moore explore how the concepts in Moore's influential book, “Crossing the Chasm” can be applied to accelerate adoption of value-based care. In order to move to mainstream adoption, it's crucial to focus on the niche market of “pragmatists in pain” who have an urgent need that the current system isn't solving. Our co-host Sean Cavanaugh, chief policy officer at Aledade, points out that oftentimes in the traditional fee-for-service model, the pragmatists in pain are independent primary care clinicians. Moore and Dr. Mostashari also share insights and recommendations for the new administration from their recent article, including focusing on primary care, defining the competition and paving the way for simplifiers who can help clinicians navigate the complexities of value-based care. Using this framework, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could accelerate expansion of value-based care to the majority of the nation's primary care clinicians as well as their patients. Connect with us at acoshow@aledade.com or visit the Aledade Newsroom.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aledade. He has spent his career at the forefront of healthcare policy and health information technology. Dr. Mostashari is the former ...
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO of Aledade, is joined by Dr. Mark McClellan and Bob Kocher to reflect on the past decade of health care reform, and the early days of Aledade and accountable care organizations (ACOs). Dr. McClellan, director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy at Duke University, discusses the evolution of legislative policy, sharing how bipartisan efforts led to the integration of shared savings models into health care policy and Bob Kocher, chairman of the board of Aledade, shares his thoughts on Aledade's journey and future direction, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a patient-centered approach, and perseverance in navigating the evolving health care landscape. Submit your questions, comments, or episode ideas to acoshow@aledade.com
Join our hosts along with Dr. Farzad Mostashari on this episode as they dive into CMS's update on the Medicare value-based care strategy. From discussing alignment and growth to equity in healthcare, they provide insights and suggestions for the future of accountable care. Read the update here: Update On The Medicare Value-Based Care Strategy: Alignment, Growth, Equity Submit your questions, comments, or episode ideas to acoshow@aledade.com
Howie and Harlan are joined by Farzad Mostashari, co-founder and CEO of Aledade, an "accountable care organization" that seeks to align patient-provider incentives so doctors can make a profit by prioritizing preventive care. Harlan discusses a study suggesting that physical exercise may be protective from severe COVID. Howie highlights the introduction of Apple's VR headset and the importance of further study to understand the technology's capacity to “rewire” our brains. Links: "Aledade: Home Page" “Farzad Mostashari: Man On A Digital Mission” “Health Reform and Physician-Led Accountable Care:The Paradox of Primary Care Physician Leadership” “Staggering Rise in Catheter Bills Suggests Medicare Scam” “Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): General Information” “Novid: Definition” “Prepandemic Physical Activity and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis and Hospitalization in Older Adults” “VR risks for kids and teens” “2024 Outlook: Despite hurdles, stakeholders bullish on VR in behavioral health” “AI therapy and ICU training: A first look at health apps for Apple Vision Pro” “Effects of an Immersive Virtual Reality Intervention on Pain and Anxiety Among Pediatric Patients Undergoing Venipuncture” “Virtual Reality for Management of Pain in Hospitalized Patients: Results of a Controlled Trial” “Virtual Reality Reduces Pain in Laboring Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial” “Apple Vision Pro” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Learn more about the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.
Howie and Harlan are joined by Farzad Mostashari, co-founder and CEO of Aledade, an "accountable care organization" that seeks to align patient-provider incentives so doctors can make a profit by prioritizing preventive care. Harlan discusses a study suggesting that physical exercise may be protective from severe COVID. Howie highlights the introduction of Apple's VR headset and the importance of further study to understand the technology's capacity to “rewire” our brains. Links: "Aledade: Home Page" “Farzad Mostashari: Man On A Digital Mission” “Health Reform and Physician-Led Accountable Care:The Paradox of Primary Care Physician Leadership” “Staggering Rise in Catheter Bills Suggests Medicare Scam” “Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): General Information” “Novid: Definition” “Prepandemic Physical Activity and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis and Hospitalization in Older Adults” “VR risks for kids and teens” “2024 Outlook: Despite hurdles, stakeholders bullish on VR in behavioral health” “AI therapy and ICU training: A first look at health apps for Apple Vision Pro” “Effects of an Immersive Virtual Reality Intervention on Pain and Anxiety Among Pediatric Patients Undergoing Venipuncture” “Virtual Reality for Management of Pain in Hospitalized Patients: Results of a Controlled Trial” “Virtual Reality Reduces Pain in Laboring Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial” “Apple Vision Pro” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Learn more about the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.
In this episode, McDermott Digital Health partner Jennifer Geetter sits down for a candid conversation on the state of digital care in the US, the importance of data sharing for effective care and public health, and more.
Jacob and Nikhil speak with Farzad Mostashari, Founder and CEO of Aledade, which supports independent primary care practices to succeed in value-based care. Farzad talks about the current evidence of success in VBC, why VBC is still underhyped, barriers for Medicaid models, and more. (0:00) intro(0:40) why we don't see more doctors starting their own practices(8:32) what actually works in value-based care?(11:48) what does Aledade do?(23:18) how competitive has it become to acquire new practices?(28:29) Aledade First(37:27) one policy change Farzad would make in healthcare(42:18) best way to learn more about Aledade Out-Of-Pocket: https://www.outofpocket.health/
Earning a Presidential Management Fellowship after law school gave Kristen McGovern firsthand experience working inside many of the agencies and offices that drive U.S. healthcare policy. Over a two year period with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) she worked at organizations including the National Cancer Institute and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). She eventually landed at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) just as the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, dedicating nearly $30 billion to modernizing healthcare IT.As the executive office that oversees the federal budget and federal agencies, Kristen worked closely with leadership at OMB and HHS as they deployed funding for Meaningful Use and other programs catalyzed by the landmark legislation.In 2010, around the same time the Affordable Care Act was passed into law, Kristen was recruited by Farzad Mostashari (a previous guest on the Healthcare is Hard podcast) and became chief of staff at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).These experiences launched a career that has put Kristen at the forefront of federal healthcare policy and politics. She is currently partner at Sirona Strategies, a healthcare consulting firm she co-founded to advise organizations – from startups to the Fortune 500 – on healthcare policy.Some of the topics Kristen talked to Keith Figlioli about on this episode of the Healthcare is Hard podcast include:A pulse check on DC. Kristen shared insight into the offices and agencies shaping the healthcare industry from inside the beltway. For example, she talked about the current state of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the activity she says is happening “below the surface” and how the organization is at an inflection point after more than a decade testing payment and delivery system models.The evolution of Meaningful Use. Looking back at her time at ONC, Kristen talks about the initial goals of encouraging EHR adoption to unlock insight from paper records that were sitting in filing cabinets. She talks about progress the industry has made and the current goals of making sure organizations can access and use data in new and innovative ways. In other words, ensuring we haven't just created electronic filing cabinets.The size and scope of AI Policy. With all the enthusiasm about artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, Kristen talks about the process of putting guardrails around this powerful technology. She says it will require a large-scale collaborative effort across HHS and other government agencies, and believes it will ultimately be an even bigger undertaking than Meaningful Use.Policy advice for startups. As a highly regulated industry, every organization that touches healthcare needs to be aware of the impact current and future policy decisions could have on their business. Kristen shared advice about how she helps startups think through the impact of policy decisions, and when and how to embed policy experts in a business.To hear Keith and Kristen talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders.
Founded in 2014, Aledade works with over 11,000 physicians across 40 States accounting for 1.7 million patients under management in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid contracts. Farzad Mostashari has spent his career in health care policy and Health Information Technology. Farzad previously served as the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to his work at the Office of the National Coordinator, he founded the NYC Primary Care Information project, which equipped physicians and underserved communities with electronic health records. He completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine and a Master's degree in Population Health from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this episode we talk about Farzad's journey to healthcare, how he started Aledade, the importance of independent physicians in value-based care, how Aledade scaled as a profitable health tech company, and advice he has for founders.
When KFF Health News' “What the Health?” podcast launched in 2017, Republicans in Washington were engaged in an (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. The next six years would see a pandemic, increasingly unaffordable care, and a health care workforce experiencing unprecedented burnout. In the podcast's 300th episode, host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explores the past and possible future of the U.S. health care system with three prominent “big thinkers” in health policy: Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff Goldsmith of Health Futures, and Farzad Mostashari of Aledade. Click here for a transcript of the episode.Further reading by the panelists from this week's episode: Health Affairs' “Nine Health Care Megatrends, Part 1: System and Payment Reform,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.Health Affairs' “We Have a National Strategy for Accountable Care, So What's Next?” by Sean Cavanaugh, Mandy K. Cohen, and Farzad Mostashari. The Health Care Blog's “What Can We Learn From the Envision Bankruptcy?” by Jeff Goldsmith. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For this episode, Josh and Brian hand the helm to Aledade CEO and Co-Founder, Farzad Mostashari, MD, and Bryan Roberts, partner at Venrock and lead of Venrock's investment in Aledade. They give a behind-the-scenes look into the conversations that go on between CEOs, board members and investors regarding the challenges of running companies and how to create long-term solutions. Learn more about Bryan's "Roberts' Rules of Life (& Venture Capital)" here: bit.ly/3KXxT2G
Josh and Brian are joined by Aledade's CEO and co-founder, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, and Amy Simmerman, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, to discuss the idea of a public benefit corporation - what it is and what it means, why Aledade has decided to become one, and what this means for the health care industry as a whole.
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Farzad Mostashari. Farzad is the co-founder and CEO of Aledade, a primary care enablement company that partners with independent PCPs to transition to value-based care and, as a result, maintain their independence. Founded in 2014, Aledade works with 11,000 physicians across 40 states and DC, accounting for 1.7M patients under management in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Commercial and Medicaid contracts. Farzad previously served as the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Department of Health and Human Services, he completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine and a Master's in Population Health from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Earlier this year, Aledade raised a $123M Series E round of funding led by OMERS Growth Equity. In this episode, I spoke with Farzad about: His journey to starting Aledade and the role policy expertise and evidence have played in the company's success Why he and the company are betting on independent physicians as the drivers of change in value-based care How Aledade became the rare profitable health tech company
Farzad Mostashari is the co-founder and CEO of Aledade. Farzad's problem is this: How can we pay doctors to keep us healthy, rather than treating us after we get sick? People have been struggling to solve this problem for decades. But for a bunch of reasons you'll hear about on the show, Farzad and his colleagues may be the ones to finally solve it. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Farzad Mostashari, founder and CEO of Aledade, speaks with Venrock's Bryan Roberts and Bob Kocher about improving the quality and efficiency of patient care with a focus on preventative care. With the recent launch of Aledade Care Solutions and new focus on Medicare Advantage, Mostashari delves into Aledade's efforts to scale and deliver where average primary care practices can't. Mostashari also reveals his approach to value based care incentive structure, and why building a valuable solution requires a long time horizon.
I saw a Tweet from Farzad Mostashari, MD, the other day; and I'm gonna rewrite it in the context of today's show: This is why we can't have nice things! As soon as someone comes up with something that might accomplish some good things when done in moderation and with good intent, it gets exploited for revenue maximization. I have to admit, this conversation with Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH, and actually the one with Mark Miller, PhD (EP380), from two episodes ago were both kind of painful for me—and let me tell you why. It's the same reason I find conversations painful about hospitals or leading cancer centers or even some self-insured employers and EBCs (employee benefit consultants): It hurts my heart when some percentage of healthcare industry peeps who have the opportunity to produce so much good in the world instead choose to do stuff that is financially or otherwise toxic. But let me get to the point of today's show. Dr. Aaron Mitchell and I are talking about conflicts of interest (COI), and we're talking about COI in the payments that are made from Pharma to physicians. COI might mean when physicians are paid in a way that skews their clinical decision-making. Nobody wants to be the patient of a physician with skewed decision-making, after all. That's the “why” of this whole discourse. Now, let's get into two important points re: skewed decision-making. Any payment that skews decision-making is, in fact, considered no bueno by the current writing of the AKS, the anti-kickback statute. Second, almost any payment, direct or indirect, turns out, skews physician decision-making. It's not just getting paid the big bucks to make a speech or consult or whatever. Getting a modest free lunch can also have the same effect. Prescribing is affected. That's what the data show and what the recent paper that Dr. Aaron Mitchell and his colleagues published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law articulates. Their paper is titled “Industry Payments to Physicians Are Kickbacks: How Should Stakeholders Respond?” So, hmmm. Much to cogitate upon in what I just said, which is what the conversation with Dr. Aaron Mitchell that follows is all about. But let me offer up a few spoilers and maybe some additional thoughts. First of all, some “Are payments COI and kickbacks?” contemplations are pretty black and white. We start out the conversation in this healthcare podcast talking about the recent Biogen incident, I guess I'll call it, which is sadly not an outlier. Biogen never admitted any wrongdoing here. But if what they are accused of doing is true, this could be considered not a gray area. This is black-and-white COI—unquestionably should not happen. But where things get a little bit more open to interpretation and require some consideration and thoughtfulness is if we're trying to weigh the gray in the middle between black and white. Here, what needs to be thought through is the aggregate good versus the aggregate bad of Pharma paying physicians to do stuff or buying things for them. If Pharma needs help during its clinical trials to figure out a breakthrough therapy and they want to talk to leading experts in a specialty, that's maybe a good thing so that they can get a drug that actually works well for patients. So is—and this is me talking, not Dr. Mitchell—but I could see that Pharma helping to figure out ways to educate clinicians about the best ways to help patients suffering with real diseases that nobody else is making any effort to do anything about at a national scale … it could help humans live better lives if Pharma takes the advice of the right thought leaders and helps to disseminate their teachings. Maybe physician societies could fill this role, but a lot of times, who needs educated are not the actual doctors in the society in question. It's other doctors the patient is seeing who don't realize the root cause is a GI problem or CKD (chronic kidney disease) until the patient needs a liver transplant or “crashes” into dialysis in the ER. But irrespective of the validity of my musings here, the point is to quantify the in-aggregate “good” that might happen as a result of Pharma paying appropriate clinical experts appropriate amounts. Contrast that aggregate good against some not so good. Study findings that Pharma can drive up not only Rx's (prescriptions) for its own drugs but also drugs in general when they buy stuff for doctors or pay doctors. Patient populations get overmedicated when compared to a baseline as a result. Too many patients get diagnosed and treated for some condition that they may not actually have. Too many expensive me-too drugs get prescribed at big unnecessary costs to patients, taxpayers, and employers. When I say costs to patients, by the way, I also might be implying a clinical overtone here as much as a financial one, because there's almost no drug that comes without side effects. So, what are some solutions that Dr. Aaron Mitchell mentions in this episode, or I that bring up, if we are trying to steer physician payments into the aggregate good zone and out of the bad COI zone? Here we go, and these are not necessarily in the order in which they are discussed: Keep an eye on practice patterns and overall costs. This might make physicians aware when their clinical decision-making is getting swayed, so to speak. Get payers involved. Listen to this whole episode for the “how” and “why” here, but if anyone has a visceral reaction to this, here's one possible positive from a physician standpoint: It could be a way to get rid of a lot of PAs (prior auths). If a doc's practice pattern is average, on trend, and/or they do not take industry dollars, then they get what amounts to a PA gold card. With that carrot, a doc may have less inclination to let their prescribing decisions sway and/or take pharma dollars. The federal government can get involved in a few ways that Dr. Mitchell talks about. One of them is a direct ban on all payments. Or maybe they could just clarify what is okay and what is not okay, since what is listed as COI in the current AKS is also currently considered an industry norm. Asking providers themselves to pay attention and self-regulate and to, for example, not accept speaking gigs where they are paid to talk to an empty room or “consult” on topics that really they should know they're not thought leaders in. You can learn more at Dr. Mitchell's personal profile on the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Web site. You can also connect with Dr. Mitchell on Twitter at @TheWonkologist. Aaron Mitchell, MD, MPH, is a practicing medical oncologist and health services researcher. He is an assistant attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics. His research focuses on understanding how the financial incentives in the healthcare system affect physician practice patterns and care delivery to cancer patients. He cares for patients with prostate and bladder cancer. 07:32 How does the recent whistleblower case serve as a good example of what shouldn't be permissible in Pharma? 11:23 “There's a little bit of a disconnect between what the law currently says and maybe the ideal world that we would want.” 11:56 Dr. Aaron Mitchell's paper in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, titled “Industry Payments to Physicians Are Kickbacks: How Should Stakeholders Respond?” 14:37 How should stakeholders react to this new legislation? 17:56 What is the aggregate benefit versus risk of these payments to doctors? 19:53 BMJ paper by Tyler Greenway and Joseph Ross. 23:51 What should providers and the federal government be doing in light of this new legislation? 29:07 “It's just always so much harder to get to the outcomes because there's so much more that happens in between the clinical decision and then what the patient's outcome is down the road.” 30:42 Will innovation be stifled with this new crackdown on kickbacks? You can learn more at Dr. Mitchell's personal profile on the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Web site. You can also connect with Dr. Mitchell on Twitter at @TheWonkologist. @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth How does the recent whistleblower case serve as a good example of what shouldn't be permissible in Pharma? @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “There's a little bit of a disconnect between what the law currently says and maybe the ideal world that we would want.” @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth Dr. Aaron Mitchell's paper in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, titled “Industry Payments to Physicians Are Kickbacks: How Should Stakeholders Respond?” @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth How should stakeholders react to this new legislation? @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth What is the aggregate benefit versus risk of these payments to doctors? @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth What should providers and the federal government be doing in light of this new legislation? @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth “It's just always so much harder to get to the outcomes because there's so much more that happens in between the clinical decision and then what the patient's outcome is down the road.” @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth Will innovation be stifled with this new crackdown on kickbacks? @TheWonkologist discusses #pharma conflicts and kickbacks on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! 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We have reached a milestone moment, as we are celebrating 100 episodes of the Race to Value – the nation's leading podcast on value-based care transformation in the country! In this special episode, Dr. Eric Weaver and Daniel Chipping conduct a countdown of the Top 10 episodes so far, playing select clips from the most downloaded Race to Value episodes. They also discuss the recent launch of the Institute for Advancing Health Value (formally known as The Accountable Care Learning Collaborative). The Race to Value and the Institute bring together the nation's leading accountable care organizations, top performers, and industry leaders who know what it takes to succeed in the value-based care environment. We are committed to advancing health value, not only through industry collaboration but through education and workforce development as well! Episode Bookmarks: 01:30 Eric and Daniel reflect on the 100th Episode milestone of the Race to Value 02:20 The announcement of the newly-launched Institute for Advancing Health Value (formerly the ACLC) 03:10 Register now to attend the Advancing Health Value Virtual Summit on May 5th, 2022 04:00 #10: “Creating Optimal Post-Acute Care Networks in the New Value Paradigm” with Ian Juliano 06:30 Other PAC insights in prior episodes featuring Dr. Stephen Bekanich, Andrew Croshaw, and Dr. Tim Ihrig 07:00 #9: “The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity” with Susan Hassmiller and Janelle Sokolowich 11:00 Other VBC workforce insights in prior episodes featuring Christina Severin, Cheryl Lulias, Lisa Trumble, and Dr. Gordon Chen 12:00 #8: “The Path of Hope for Human-Centered Care Delivery” with Dr. Zeev Neuwirth 14:40 Other “Big Thinkers” in prior episodes featuring the Honorable Dr. David Shulkin, Dr. Robert Pearl, and Dr. Elizabeth Teisberg 15:00 #7: “The Role of Direct Primary Care in the Value Movement” with Dr. Gaurov Dayal 17:40 Other transformational insights in prior episodes featuring Dr. Tom Davis, Farzad Mostashari, and Harris Rosen 18:10 #6: “Care Beyond Medicine: Addressing SDOH and Health Inequities in Marginalized Communities” with Mike Radu and Dr. Greg Foti 19:40 Other Health Equity insights in prior episodes featuring Dr. Lerla Joseph, David Smith, Dr. Jesse James, Akil McClay, and John Bluford 21:00 #5: “The Future of Value: Lifestyle Medicine and the Reversal of Chronic Disease” with Dr. Dean Ornish 24:30 Other unique insights in prior episodes featuring Dallas Ducar (gender-affirming care), Ginger Hines and Dr. Sheryl Morelli (pediatric VBC), Dr. Keith Smith and Sean Kelley (cost transparency), Dr. Debra Patt (oncology VBC), Dr. Angelo Dilullo (mindfulness and resilience) 25:40 #4: “Analyzing the New ACO REACH Model” with Rick Goddard and Joe Satorius 27:50 Other health policy insights in prior episodes featuring Jeff Miklos, Michael Leavitt, Dr. Mark McClellan, Micky Tripathi and Liz Fowler 28:20 #3: “The Geisinger Value Journey” with Dr. Jaewon Ryu 30:50 Other insights from industry leaders in prior episodes featuring Dr. Clive Fields, Jen Moore, Dr. Stephen Klasko, Dr. Tim Peterson, Dr. Paul Grundy, Dr. Mark Gwynne, and Dr. David Carmouche 31:30 #2: “COVID-19 & SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant: Scientific Insights from a Leading Virologist” with Dr. Rodney E. Rohde 33:50 #1: “Value-Based Care: A Superior Technology to Create Trusting Relationships” with Dr. Griffin Myers 37:40 Parting thoughts on the future of the R2V podcast and the launch of the Institute for Advancing Health Value. Thank you for tuning in and supporting us!
The number of Americans with a primary care physician is declining along with the number of medical school graduates wanting to go into primary care. A big reason for this is how and how much they are paid. Can replacing our fee-for-service model with value-based care save our healthcare system? In this episode, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS and current Co-Founder and CEO of Aledade, dives into the what, why, and how of value-based care solutions.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode, McDermott Digital Health partner Jennifer Geetter sits down for a candid conversation on the state of digital care in the US, the importance of data sharing for effective care and public health, and more.
Join Health Affairs Insider.In the final episode of Piecemeal, Dr. Lalita Abhyankar discusses the delicate balance between physician burnout, autonomy, employment, quality of care, negotiating power, and the continuity of the physician-patient relationship.Guests include Dr. Jonathan Zhang from McMaster University; Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO of Aledade; Dr. Umar Bowers from Dawson Med; and Dr. Kyle Leggot from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Piecemeal was produced by Dr. Lalita Abhyankar for Health Affairs.Works Cited: Consolidation of Primary Care Physicians and Its Impact on Health Care Utilization (Health Economics) Making Health Care Markets Work: Competition Policy for Health Care (JAMA) Information Blocking (HealthIT.gov) Potential Contracting Issues of “All-Or-Nothing” Clauses: New HHS Secretary, Policy Priorities (Norton Rose Fulbright) Payer Trend: 'Tiering' Physicians and 'Steering' Patients (American Academy of Family Physicians) Medicare Shared Savings Program (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Music produced by So Brown and Jack Mason.
Join Health Affairs Insider.On the second episode of Piecemeal, Dr. Lalita Abhyankar explores the policy issues that promote health care consolidation. She explores the fee-for-service payment model, various value-based payment models, the challenges of telehealth, payment reimbursement negotiations, and the complex balance of managing patient visits.Guests include Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO of Aledade; Dr. Gary Price, President of The Physicians Foundation; and Dr. Kyle Leggot from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.Piecemeal was produced by Dr. Lalita Abhyankar for Health Affairs.Works Cited: 2019 Merritt Hawkins Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey (Merritt Hawkins)Music produced by So Brown and Jack Mason.
Andy and epidemiologists Farzad Mostashari and Jennifer Nuzzo get together for a special holiday edition of Safe or Not Safe. They've got answers to your questions about partially-vaccinated kids, rapid antigen tests, in-person office parties (remember those?), airplane safety, and much more. Whether you are hosting people or will be someone's guest, this episode should calm your pre-holiday COVID-related nerves. Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. Follow Farzad @Farzad_MD and Jennifer @JenniferNuzzo on Twitter. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/ Throughout the pandemic, CVS Health has been there, bringing quality, affordable health care closer to home—so it's never out of reach for anyone. Learn more at cvshealth.com. Check out these resources from today's episode: Read Andy's opinion piece in The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/pandemic-is-not-over-yet-andy-slavitt/ Check out more of Jennifer's thoughts on how to have a safe holiday season in this guest essay in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion/covid-thanksgiving-holiday-risk.html Watch a video of how to take an at-home test, as Farzad suggests, before administering one on yourself: https://www.webmd.com/coronavirus-in-context/video/covid-home-testing Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/ Order Andy's book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO and co-founder of Aledade, discusses how quality reporting for physicians has become time-intensive and no longer commensurate with incentives. He tells us the whole system is in need of “radical surgery”.
The Future of Healthcare is shaped by technology but moves at the pace of policy, incentives and culture. Today we look at a panel discussion from August at the Health Evolution Summit. FTA “How do we change the culture of medicine and pick up on what happened in COVID, which is we adopted a new pace of change, a new sense of urgency to respond to a clear and present danger? How do we actually feel the other types of danger that aren't necessarily clear and present to accelerate the pace of change within health care more broadly?” asked Sachin Jain, MD, President & CEO, SCAN Group and Health Plan, during the Health Evolution Summit 2021 in late August. Joining Jain on the stage were Jon Perlin, MD, President of Clinical Operations and Chief Medical Officer, HCA Healthcare, Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO and Founder, Aledade, and Chris Chen, MD, CEO, ChenMed. “This is a moment that really is disruptive. COVID has forced change. To quote the famous philosopher Yogi Berra, ‘The future ain't what it used to be,'” Perlin said. “That future has been accelerated and there are things that are incremental, but I think COVID forced us to think differently, to really think about a step change in performance.” — What policies and incentives are most important to maintaining the pace of innovation in healthcare? #healthcare #healthIT #cio #chime #cmio #himss https://www.healthevolution.com/insider/what-it-will-take-to-maintain-the-accelerated-pace-of-innovation-in-health-care-post-pandemic/ (https://www.healthevolution.com/insider/what-it-will-take-to-maintain-the-accelerated-pace-of-innovation-in-health-care-post-pandemic/)
What does the science really, really say about wearing masks indoors if you're vaccinated? Andy gets answers to your most pressing questions on everyone's favorite game show, Safe or Not Safe, with top-flight epidemiologists Farzad Mostashari and Caitlin Rivers. Plus, Dr. Lisa goes out into the field to take the pulse of people starting to return back to life. Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. Dr. Lisa is on Twitter @askdrfitz. Follow Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton and Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD on Twitter. Check out In the Bubble's Twitter account @inthebubblepod. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/ Check out these resources from today's episode: Check out this article about Israel and the Delta variant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-delta-vaccine-shield-holding/2021/06/28/1ba865b2-d7e1-11eb-8c87-ad6f27918c78_story.html Learn more about getting an mRNA booster after your J&J vaccine: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/booster-may-be-needed-jj-shot-delta-variant-spreads-some-experts-already-taking-2021-06-25/ Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/ Order Andy's book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO and co-founder of Aledade, discusses how quality reporting for physicians has become time-intensive and no longer commensurate with incentives. He tells us the whole system is in need of “radical surgery”.
Trevor and Steve sit down with Farzad Mostashari, Founder & CEO of Aledade, this week on A Healthy Dose.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari’s extensive resume doesn’t fully convey the true value he brings to reimagining healthcare. He’s the former National Coordinator for Health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, served as assistant commissioner at the New York City Department of Health, was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the CDC, a fellow at The Brookings Institution and a resident at Mass General Hospital. Yet, with all that experience, he says living through the Iranian revolution before moving to the U.S. at age 14 is what fuels his ability to see things differently.As he told Keith Figlioli, “seeing an actual revolution does something for your sense that things can change; that you can be looking at one reality one day, and a different reality the next day.”In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Farzad talks about how he’s never been totally comfortable inside – or even leading – the grand institutions he’s been part of, and at some level, has always felt like an outsider. He describes his ability to see the insider and outsider perspective, his natural disposition to see things differently, and how this trait led him to found Aledade.Most of the industry looked at the Medicare Shared Savings program in the Affordable Care Act and assumed that hospitals needed to be at the center of creating and sharing in savings. But after noticing the law didn’t require a hospital, Farzad began building a network of primary care doctors who could treat people upstream, reduce hospitalization and lower costs.Seven years later, Aledade has assembled 800 practices in 35 states and has $12.5 billion in annual medical spend under management. It’s helping independent physician practices deliver better care, reduce overall costs and preserve their autonomy in communities all across America.Farzad brings his outsider mentality and inclination to see things differently to his conversation with Keith Figlioli on this episode of Healthcare is Hard. They cover a number of topics including:Dis-economies of scale. Farzad talks about how healthcare is one of the few industries where organizations tend to lose money as they get bigger, and how it all maps back to fee-for-service. The main driver of consolidation in healthcare has been the need to build leverage at the negotiating table. But he says if you change the rules of game – including what’s being valued, rewarded, and compensated – you actually see that the small guys do better.Independent vs. Institutions. Farzad sees this as a proxy battle. He says if you’re betting fee-for-service will be the future of healthcare, bet on consolidating health systems. But if you’re betting on value, bet on the independents.Trust in policy makers. As someone who has lived on both the public and private sides of healthcare, Farzad sees that many people in the private sector are highly skeptical of healthcare policy makers. But in his experience, smart policy makers are motivated by evidence and doing the right thing to help improve care and lower cost. He says leaders in the private sector who understand this are in a better position to navigate the potential regulatory risk impacting their business.A decade of vision driving real value. It’s taken a long time to build much of the infrastructure that started under Farzad’s leadership at ONC almost ten years ago. And now, the combination of new incentives with data-driven capabilities the industry has talked about for a long time are very real. These elements have already created billions of dollars in value that couldn’t exist before, and that impact will continue to multiply.To hear Farzad and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.
It's not a secret, the broken healthcare system is exquisitely tuned to react after patients get sick. For the most part, profits are made after we FAIL patients. And it hurts all of the caregivers who face the daily internal conflict of doing what is right for the patient or doing what is right for the business. But there are a few who are positioned differently. When the strategy and business are unconflicted they're not worried about demand destruction and leakage but are instead focused on prevention and true care management. It all begins with prioritizing and properly aligning primary care. A group of 100 adult primary care physicians can influence $1 billion in healthcare spend. This is the source of potential power and change in a value-based world, where health will improve for patients and their providers while costs are decreased. Aledade is such a place – by allowing providers to remain independent and unfettered by the constraints of fee for service, Aledade is blazing the path toward true health value. Episode Bookmarks: 03:30 Comparison of Healthcare Spending ($6M per minute) to Niagara Falls (6M cubic feet per minute) 04:55 Aledade's success in short lifespan of company (now at 800 practice partnerships with $360 million in healthcare cost savings) 06:05 The misalignment of incentives creating a perverse incentive for poor outcomes (e.g. profitability of treatments following a stroke) 06:45 Dr. Mostashari spending his career trying to find answers to the question, “How do we save the most lives?” 07:20 Adoption of electronic health records (“We succeeded in the battle, but we lost the war.”) 07:45 Provider workflow redesign and optimization (Regional Extension Centers) 08:25 “How can we create incentives so that private profit creates public good?" 09:30 “The Paradox of Primary Care Physician Leadership” (the influence of primary care on downstream healthcare spend) 11:30 Consolidation of primary care by Optum and private equity firms 12:00 The resiliency of independent primary care practices 12:30 “Independent practices can do what they believe is in the patients' best interest, without worrying that they're obligation to the patient conflicts with their obligation to the corporation.” 13:00 Data shows remarkably little change in hospital employment of PCPs, thereby showing resilience in the primary care market 15:00 Movements are led by effective storytelling and these stories can revitalize communities of people 17:00 Primary care heroes during COVID-19, and how society neglected them by failures in supply chains, testing, and vaccines 18:40 Aledade's support of primary care practices during the pandemic 20:00 “It is remarkable what happens when you do the right thing.” 22:00 Dr. Mostashari's terror in seeing early ER utilization data in knowing that a pandemic was coming (before the media was covering it) 23:00 Implementation of telehealth, finding PPE, and securing loans for practices in early stages of pandemic 23:25 “The idea of practices going out of business during the pandemic highlights the insanity of fee-for-service payment for primary care.” 24:00 The lessons of COVID-19: 1) Healthcare can change, 2) Primary care doesn't have to be an in-person visit, 3) Capitation in primary care is preferrable to fee-for-service 25:40 “Primary care is about the relationship between a practice and patient -- it's not about the 99213 visit.” 27:30 Dr. Mostashari addresses recent delays by CMMI in new APMs and what we should expect in future health policy 28:30 Scaling the models that work is the job of good health policy. (MSSP compared to CMMI programs) 29:00 The ACO Investment Model (AIM) program was successful and a model for future provider and patient incentive programs 30:30 CMMI delays should not be considered as a question to the direction of value-based models. 32:00 The progress of the ONC in standardizing health in...
Is it safe to go on vacation this summer? Can I send my kids to camp? Should I invite unvaccinated family members to my summer wedding? Drs. Caitlin Rivers and Farzad Mostashari join Dr. Bob to answer all this and more on this special, summer edition of Safe or Not Safe. Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter @Bob_Wachter and check out In the Bubble’s new Twitter account @inthebubblepod. Follow Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton and Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD on Twitter. Keep up with Andy in D.C. on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. In the Bubble is supported in part by listeners like you. Become a member, get exclusive bonus content, ask questions, and get discounted merch at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/inthebubble/ Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NEJFhcReE4ejw2Kw7ba8DVJ1xQLogPwA/view Check out these resources from today’s episode: Learn more about the CDC and FDA’s decision to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/joint-cdc-and-fda-statement-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine Watch Mike Osterholm’s Meet the Press interview Bob mentions in today’s episode: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-osterholm-interview-covid-variant-is-a-brand-new-ballgame-109642309532 Check out the CDC’s current guidelines for fully vaccinated people: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html This article answers frequently asked questions about COVID-19 vaccines and pregnancy: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/wondering-about-covid-19-vaccines-if-youre-pregnant-or-breastfeeding-2021010721722 Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/ To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to www.lemonadamedia.com/show/in-the-bubble shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Race to Value listeners -- April is National Minority Health Month, and this year, the HHS Office of Minority Health is focusing on the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on racial and ethnic minority communities. This Bonus Episode is a compilation of viewpoints on health equity and racial disparities of care from some of our former guests in the past year. We hope you take the time to listen intently to their message. Certainly over the last many year we have been exposed to the great inequities that have existed in our society for far too long. We have one major obligation we have to each other…that is to tell the truth. And the truth is, there are so many inequities in our society for minorities, including the manifestation of institutional racism within our nation's health system. As leaders in value-based care, we have to be accountable to the endeavor that we are about. We endeavor to, in fact, ensure every patient receives the best treatment possible so they can live the life they are intended to live. That we endeavor to create the opportunity for health equity, and that is true regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or otherwise. We hope you find meaning in this Bonus episode and gain awareness for how important health equity and social justice is to win this Race to Value. Episode Bookmarks: 1:39 Daniel Chipping introduces National Minority Health Month and its' focus on COVID-19 impact on minority communities 2:10 Dr. Eric Weaver delivers a special message on overcoming institutional racism in our nation's healthcare system 3:29 Dr. Farzad Mostashari reflects on the murder of George Floyd and how it was a reckoning for social justice (and health equity) 6:33 Dr. Lerla Joseph discusses how she has devoted most of her life committed to health equity, how ACOs are a vehicle for change 12:30 David Smith provides a powerful social commentary on how pervasive systemic racism is in our society and his awakening as a white male 18:41 Christina Severin on the country's reckoning, how her white privilege as conditioned her to be a racist, and how health centers can address inequities 23:10 Dr. Ernest Grant on the public health crisis of systemic racism, the disproportionate burden of disease related to SDOH, and how nurses can call for change 30:19 Dr. Stephen Klasko on how the zip code of communities ultimately determine health, and how the pandemic has raised awareness of inequities 31:46 Christina Severin on how the calling for racial justice, coupled with the pandemic, has created urgency to “bridge the digital divide” 33:36 Dr. Gordon Chen on the social injustice of different lifetime expectancy rates between white and minority communities 36:04 Shannon Brownlee on how Black Lives Matter has forced hospitals to focus on health equity 38:24 Dr. Mark Gwynne on how investment in data analytics can help ACOs identify opportunities in populations where there are disparate outcomes 39:11 Dr. Christopher Crow on how health equity in communities can be addressed through reforms in education, health, and business 40:27 Cheryl Lulias on building community-based coalitions to address health equity 42:10 Robert Sepucha on the disproportionate burden of kidney disease in minority populations 42:57 Dr. Edwin Estevez on the vulnerability of the Hispanic population on the Texas/Mexico border and how his ACO focuses on nutrition and health literacy 46:17 Mike Funk on how health plans can address disparities in minority communities 48:15 Dave Chase on the opportunity for social impact investment to creative cooperative structures in disadvantaged communities 48:53 Dr. Mark McClellan on health policy approaches to address health equity 49:30 Andrew Croshaw on how the Biden Administration will define value through health equity
Can I hug Grandma after her vaccine? It's time for Dr. Bob's first Safe or Not Safe with Drs. Caitlin Rivers and Farzad Mostashari. This time, they cover post-vaccine activities. Can you go to the gym? Hang out with friends? Have Grandpa over? Go to Burning Man? All that and more on this toolkit episode of Safe or Not Safe. Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter @Bob_Wachter and check out In the Bubble’s new Twitter account @inthebubblepod. Follow Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton and Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD on Twitter. Keep up with Andy in D.C. on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. In the Bubble is supported in part by listeners like you. Become a member, get exclusive bonus content, ask Andy questions, and get discounted merch at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/inthebubble/ Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NEJFhcReE4ejw2Kw7ba8DVJ1xQLogPwA/view Check out these resources from today’s episode: Check out the CDC’s answers to frequently asked questions about the COVID-19 vaccines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html Read more about the CDC’s updated quarantine recommendations for fully vaccinated people: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/clinical-considerations.html Learn more about UC Berkeley’s ban on outdoor exercise: https://www.today.com/health/uc-berkeley-bans-outdoor-exercise-amid-covid-19-outbreak-t208900 Check out this Washington Post op-ed calling for clearer guidelines on what’s safe to do after vaccination: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/16/vaccinated-need-know-whats-safe-them-do/ Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/ To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to www.lemonadamedia.com/show/in-the-bubble shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Andy’s brought Mike Birbiglia, Chelsea Clinton, DeRay Mckesson, Kara Swisher, 12-year old Catie, Julián Castro, Andy’s mom and a number of other surprises to keep you entertained while you vote! Plus two co-host epidemiologists, Caitlin Rivers and Farzad Mostashari, to review safety tips for voting. You'll laugh, you'll think, you'll be inspired ... but most importantly, you'll vote! Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. Follow Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton and Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD on Twitter. In the Bubble is supported in part by listeners like you. Become a member, get exclusive bonus content, ask Andy questions, and get discounted merch at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/inthebubble/ Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Livinguard masks have the potential to deactivate COVID-19 based on the testing they have conducted from leading universities such as the University of Arizona and the Free University in Berlin, Germany. Go to shop.livinguard.com and use the code BUBBLE10 for 10% off. Check out these resources from today’s episode: Waiting in line to vote and want some more entertainment? Check out the Voting In The Bubble Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ltl8YrAfWGKHSOIQ77n3g?si=vEHfy5jxTcqXMf_yHq8-iw Check out the CDC’s Tips for Voters to Reduce Spread of COVID-19: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/going-out/Voting-tips.html Mike Birbiglia recommends visiting Vote Save America’s website: www.votesaveamerica.com Are you hoping to vote in the 2020 election? Are you confused about how to request an absentee ballot in your state? This website can help you with that: https://www.betterknowaballot.com/ Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to www.lemonadamedia.com/show/in-the-bubble shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The company Aledade was created 6 years ago to help physicians stay independent by implementing a value-based care business model. In this episode of Managed Care Cast, Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs in, speaks with Aledade co-founder, Farzad Mostashari, MD, about what his company has accomplished and why these efforts are important for all stakeholders. Read more about Aledade, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and value-based care: Mostashari, Gilfillan Highlight the Spillover Effect of ACOs Across the Entire Healthcare System: https://www.ajmc.com/view/mostashari-gilfillan-highlight-the-spillover-effect-of-acos-across-the-entire-healthcare-system MedPAC's MIPS Vote Meant to Encourage Physicians Into High-Risk Payment Models, Says Aledade's Broome: https://www.ajmc.com/view/medpacs-mips-vote-meant-to-encourage-physicians-into-highrisk-payment-models-says-aledades-broome ACOs and Healthcare Transformation: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Travis Broome: https://www.ajmc.com/view/acos-and-healthcare-transformation-dr-patricia-salber-interviews-travis-broome 5 Things About Aledade (and Its ACOs): https://www.ajmc.com/view/5-things-about-aledade-and-its-acos
Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter welcome Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Founder and CEO of Aledade, former National Coordinator for Health IT, and Chair of the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, a partnership with Facebook Data for Good, Carnegie Melon, Duke, University of Maryland, Resolve to Save Lives and organized by Catalyst @Health 2.0. The challenge is encouraging developers to create tools to mine data submitted by tens of millions of Facebook users, tracking real time COVID-19 symptoms to identify potential pandemic hotspots, for better epidemiological forecasting. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play HealthcareNOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/
This week's episode will feature co-host Indu Subaiya, President of Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and Senior Advisor to HIMSS speaking with Farzad Mostashari, Co-founder and CEO of Aledade and Former Head of the Office of the National Coordinator. Dr. Farzad Mostashari will provide an expert perspective on what a 21st century public health system could look like including real-time disease surveillance, targeted prevention and the smart allocation of resources. He will discuss how healthcare providers can effectively partner using new technology and data-enabled primary care models.Learn more about how Accelerate Health is redefining health at HIMSS here.Subscribe to the Accelerate Health podcast here.
Today’s healthcare silos cause a multitude of problems that range from information gaps to duplicative efforts. The patient is in the middle, often relying solely on her own capabilities to fill in the gaps or prevent redundant procedures. At best, the healthcare system is inefficient. At its worst, the healthcare system puts patients in danger. Jay Desai, CEO & Co-founder of PatientPing shares his perspective on how interoperability can solve many of these issues. Show Notes: If air travel worked like healthcare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J67xJKpB6c; if restaurants behaved like healthcare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M0ooFlJmfk Book: How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi; Podcasts: Reframing Healthcare with Zeev Neuwirth; The ACO Show with Aledade's CEO Dr. Farzad Mostashari; This American Life; This Week In Startups with Jason Calacanis; Radiolab with Jad Abumrad; a16z Podcast; WorkLife with Adam Grant; Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel
This week's episode will feature co-host Indu Subaiya, President of Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and Senior Advisor to HIMSS speaking with Farzad Mostashari, Co-founder and CEO of Aledade and Former Head of the Office of the National Coordinator. Dr. Farzad Mostashari will provide an expert perspective on what a 21st century public health system could look like including real-time disease surveillance, targeted prevention and the smart allocation of resources. He will discuss how healthcare providers can effectively partner using new technology and data-enabled primary care models. Learn more about how Accelerate Health is redefining health at HIMSS here.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Founder and CEO of Aledade, former National Coordinator for Health IT, and Chair of the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, a partnership with Facebook Data for Good, Carnegie Melon, Duke, University of Maryland, Resolve to Save Lives and organized by Catalyst @Health 2.0. The challenge is encouraging developers to create tools to mine data submitted by tens of millions of Facebook users, tracking real time COVID-19 symptoms to... Read More Read More The post Can Facebook’s Two Billion Users Slow the Pandemic? Dr. Farzad Mostashari on the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.
It's time for another Monday Toolkit episode! This week, Andy feeds your questions and real-life situations to Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers and former New York City epidemiologist Farzad Mostashari. This conversation aims to help us bring normality back into our lives, and they'll offer up advice about traveling, kids, school, socializing and more. You will need to vote after the episode: Team Caitlin or Team Farzad? Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. Follow Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton and Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD on Twitter. In the Bubble is supported in part by listeners like you. You can become a member, get exclusive bonus content, ask Andy questions, and get discounted merch at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/inthebubble/ Take a brief listener survey and get a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/survey Check out today’s terrific sponsors: Good Life Project is a podcast that shares inspirational, intimate and disarmingly-unfiltered conversations about living a fully-engaged, fiercely-connected and purpose-drenched life. https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/ Check out these resources from today’s episode: Here are some FAQs on travel from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/faqs.html Davidson College is keeping track of the Fall 2020 plans for academic instruction for around 3,000 colleges, community colleges, and universities in the United States here: https://collegecrisis.shinyapps.io/dashboard/ The New York City Health Department issued this guidance on Safer Sex and COVID-19: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-sex-guidance.pdf Check out OSHA’s Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19: https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3990.pdf Here’s how to file a safety and health complaint if you believe there is a serious hazard or if you think your employer is not following OSHA standards: https://www.osha.gov/workers/file_complaint.html A Cleveland Clinic doctor offers advice on how to determine what activities are safe and what are with skipping: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/covid-19-how-to-determine-what-activities-are-safe-and-whats-worth-skipping/ To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to www.lemonadamedia.com/show/in-the-bubble shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Every day, primary care providers are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, treating sick patients even as they worry about bringing the virus home to their families. Many still lack adequate protective gear, and many worry about the financial stability of their practices. With the U.S. starting to reopen, we need our primary care practices to keep their lights on — not only to test and treat people with mild symptoms but also to address health concerns that people have neglected while staying home. On this episode of The Dose podcast, health policy expert Farzad Mostashari, M.D., who advises and supports hundreds of primary care practices across the country, explains what it will take to ensure doctors can continue caring for Americans throughout the pandemic.
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and Matthew talk about HCA now that the real numbers have come out. Jess asks Matthew about Aledade raising $64 million. Founded by former ONC director Farzad Mostashari, they set up ACOs for independent physician practices and have been doing a lot around COVID-19. Medopad has rebranded as Huma and acquired Biobeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies (TLT); they've been doing remote monitoring and have been around for a while. Novartis acquires Amblyotech, a lazy eye digital therapeutic. Finally Yes Health gets $6 million - yet another "we'll put you on a diet and have coaches bully you" platform.
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO and co-founder of Aledade talks about how primary care practices are struggling during the pandemic as patients stay home and cancel appointments.
On this special episode of The ACO Show, Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD), CEO of Aledade, joins Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) and Josh (@DrJIsrael) to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Mostashari brings his experience in epidemic surveillance to talk about what we can all do to slow the spread of coronavirus and what Aledade is doing to help primary care practices on the front lines care for their patients during this crisis.
Idaho wants to add work requirements to its Medicaid program. Some websites are advertising Trumpcare plans. Aledade CEO and co-founder Dr. Farzad Mostashari talks about the company's growth and why physicians are leaving hospital employment.
It’s been almost a decade since the biggest reform of the American healthcare system in recent times - the Affordable Care Act. The law started to change how we pay for healthcare with the goal of increasing the value of patient outcomes. On this special episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, we talk to Dr. Farzad Mostashari about how the transition is going.
Interview with Farzad Mostashari, Co-Founder and CEO of Aledade Inc. (@Farzad_MD) about the origins and challenges of accountable care organizations. Dr. Mostashari is the former Head of the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT.
The Florida Association of ACOs held their annual meeting October 2017 in Orlando. In this interview Fred Goldstein, President Accountable Health, LLC and co-host Health Innovation Media chats with AledadeACO co-founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD. Dr. Mostashari weighs in on ACOs, value based healthcare, health policy and the likely continued directional vectors for alternative payment models advancing the triple aim.
Steven Krein, CEO & Co-founder of StartUp Health, hosts this Fireside Chat: The Government Mindset to the Entrepreneur Mindset" with Aneesh Chopra, former CTO of the U.S., now Co-founder & CEO of CareJourney and Farzad Mostashari, MD, Former National Coordinator for Health IT, HHS, now Co-founder & CEO, Aledade WATCH MORE NOW EPISODES: https://www.startuphealth.com/startup-health-now
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Suzanne dials up Farzad Mostashari, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aledade, an innovative organization with the mission to support primary care providers (PCPs) in the shift to value-based payment. Farzad explains why independent PCPs are set up to run and succeed as accountable care organizations (ACOs).
October 24th on This Week in Accountable Care at 5PM PT/8PM ET our very special guest is Farzad Mostashri, MD. Dr. Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) is the founder and CEO of Aledade (follow on twitter via @AledadeACO), a company 'Offering a New Model of Primary Care'. More about Aledade: 'Founded in 2014, Aledade offers a new model of primary care that puts physicians back where they should be: quarterbacking their patients’ health care. Aledade has grown rapidly and currently partners with more than 200 practices with more than 240,000 patients across 15 states to help them deliver seamless, affordable, high-quality care.' Join co-hosts Andre Berger, MD and Alex Foxman, MD for an informative exchange!
Aledade Co-Founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, the former national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, is leading a start-up to help restore power to primary care physicians.
Farzad Mostashari, founder and CEO of Aledade, speaks with Bob Kocher at Venrock about bringing a data-driven approach to solving problems and the importance of knowing the question you want to answer, so you can apply the appropriate analysis. Mostashari, who went to medical school, knew quickly that he would not pursue a traditional career as a physician. In medical school he was an outlier, asking questions about population/public health, and then during his residency was mostly curious about the systems, so it’s no surprise that Mostashari went on to hold positions with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York City Department of Health and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Despite loving government service, Mostashari saw an opportunity to improve healthcare through Accountable Care Organizations, that would be better for patients, better for doctors and better for society. And in 2014 Aledade was born.
The secret to transitioning physicians' practice patterns and behavior is to follow the “I Decided to Cha-Cha” rule, says Farzad Mostashari, MD, Aledade’s Chief Executive Officer. Farzad explores the role independent primary care physicians play in the shift to value-based care. He says independent primary care physicians are the key to market transformation. For more information on our podcast, follow us on Twitter @OWHealthEditor, visit our online healthcare publication at health.oliverwyman.com, and see our full guest roster at https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/industries/health-life-sciences/oliver-wyman-health-podcasts.html.
Farzad Mostashari has been on the frontlines of health care's biggest stories — from New York City's war on smoking to the Obama administration's $30 billion push for electronic health records. Now he's the CEO of Aledade, a fast-growing company that blends digital and population health and riding the wave of Obamacare startups. Farzad sat down with POLITICO's Dan Diamond to discuss his beginnings in public health (starts at the 2:20 mark), his move to become the nation's leader on health IT (8:55), his thoughts on the Meaningful Use program (15:00), what it's like to be a government regulator (20:30), why he started Aledade (28:00), whether MACRA is a boon for the industry (34:00), if independent doctors are endangered and how new Medicare pilots will help (41:00). Plus: Don't miss the lightning round quiz at 48:00.
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At the 2nd Annual gathering of the Florida Association of ACOs,Aledade Founder and CEOFarzad Mostashari, MD makes a compelling argument for both the business model (outcomes dependent) and rationale for the entire ACO industry as principal catalyst of the transformation. Listen as my colleague Fred Goldstein chats with this visionary physician who nails the value prop and challenge before the healthcare industry's transformation from a volume based to value oriented ecosystem. Produced and directed by Gregg Masters for Health Innovation Media.
On the Wednesday, September 30th 2015 broadcast at 11:00 AM Pacific/2PM Eastern our special guest, making an encore appearance, is Farzad Mostashari, MD (@Farzad_MD), Founder and CEO of the innovative ACO management company Aledade (@AledadeACO). In this series my co-host and co-founder of PopHealth Week Fred Goldstein, Founder and President of Accountable Health, LLC explores Farzad's progress at Aledade and drills into the touch points between population health and accountable care. Farzad will be keynoting at the Florida Association of ACOs, October 1 & 2, 2015; agenda and details here. We're featuring the following core perspectives in the series, speaking with thought leaders and pioneers in accountable care from each of the following ACO types: physician led, hospital sponsored and health plan enabled. Join us!
On Wednesday, August 26th 2015 broadcast at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern join the Hosts of PopHealth Week Gregg Masters, Doug Goldstein and Fred Goldstein for their month end review. This month's focus is on Population Health and Accountable Care. We'll review what we learned from our first two ACO guests, Farzad Mostashari of Aledade and Gerry Meklaus of Accenture (more on tap for September as the interest level has been quite substantial). We’ll also discuss a recent interview of Ronald Bayer where he had some pretty strong thoughts on Precision Medicine versus Population Health- see: 'Precision Medicine a Threat to Population Health'. And as is typical Doug (@efuturist) is gallavanting around the world and we’ll get an update from him on his travels, connections and insights from of 'Digital Health España' aka Digitalhealth.es. Innovation is NOT limited to the domestic conversation. Doug will fill us in on his discoveries to date.
On the Wednesday, August 12th 2015 broadcast at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern our special guest, making an encore appearance, is Farzad Mostashari, MD (@Farzad_MD), Founder and CEO of the innovative ACO management company Aledade (@AledadeACO). In this series my co-host and co-founder of PopHealth Week Fred Goldstein, Founder and President of Accountable Health, LLC explores Farzad's progress at Aledade and drills into the touch points between population health and accountable care. We're featuring the following core perspectives in the series, speaking with thought leaders and pioneers in accountable care from each of the following ACO types: physician led, hospital sponsored and health plan enabled. Join us for an informative chat.
At the 6th annual meeting of the 'Friends of Todd Park Love-in' also known as the Health Datapalooza, my colleague and I (@2healthguru) Douglas Goldstein @efuturist caught up with Farzard Mostashari, MD, founder of Aledade a physician led ACO management company and the former National Coordinator for HealthIT. We learn about the Get My Health Data challenge @GetMyHealthData and his impassioned appeal to not let this opportunity pass by the like minded HealthIT and Patient Advocate communities. For more information see 'Day of Action' via Neil Versel at MedCity News. Enjoy!
Today's guest is Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Founder and CEO of Aledade. Our host, Dr. Pat Salber, will be discussing with Farzad the recent news with Aledade since our last conversation with him, which can be found here. Sneak Peek: 1. The Aledade ACOs (a Delaware ACO and a Primary Care ACO spanning NY, MD, and AR) launched on January 1st. CMS Announcement: http://blog.cms.gov/2014/12/22/acos-moving-ahead/http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/sharedsavingsprogram/Downloads/MSSP-ACOs-2015-Starters.pdf Aledade Blog on the Approval: http://www.aledade.com/its-official-aledade-acos-up-and-running/ 2. In preparation for the ACOs going live, Aledade has instituted two major tech advancements at their practices: "Outreach," a Patient Engagement Application.A software platform to notify primary care docs and their staffs when patients are admitted, discharged, or transferred into/out of hospitals and other treatment facilities. 3. Brookings released an "ACO Toolkit"
Hello listeners!! This is a follow up on Aledade, their activities, challenges, and things learned. We'll be chatting with Farzad Mostashari to get his insight on how the company is doing and what they plan to do in the future from what they have gathered in these past few months since we last spoke with them. Perk your ears to listen to their story. If you haven't already listened to our previous podcast with Aledade and Farzad, check out our episode list and listen to that before listening to this one. It'll give you more perspective on what we'll be discussing. Also, please go and check out the Aledade website at www.aledade.com for more information on what the company is about. Until then!!
On a special edition of 'This Week in Accountable Care' we'll chat with Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO and Founder of Aledade about the recent announcement of Privia Health and the simultaneous release of results in the Pioneer [ACO] program by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. For some commentary on the significance of the Privia Health announcement, see: 'IPA 2.0 the Preferred ACO Chassis?' and for the CMS release see: 'Pioneer ACOs improve quality, have mixed results on slowing spending, CMS says.'
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former National Coordinator for HIT and more recently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, has launched a new VC-backed company, Aledade. Aledade provides the smarts and some of the infrastructure to help independent primary care physicians form and join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs are a new care delivery model in which doctors are paid to deliver the best care as opposed to the fee-for-service model that encourages them to do more care. Farzad notes in his blog that his tenure at Brookings allowed him to go on a healthcare "walkabout." He visited and talked to docs and healthcare wonks around the country and came away with 'a rare stereoscopic view of the change sweeping through healthcare - the anxiety of those with "one foot on the old business model's grave and the other foot on their new business model banana peel," mingled with the excitement of those who would disrupt the process.' He says, during the process, he also found his cause. "It's to help independent primary care doctors re-design their practices, and re-imagine their future...It's to support them with people who will stand beside them, with no interests other than theirs in mind. It's to promote new partnerships built on mutual respect, and business arrangements that they will truly reward them for the value that they uniquely can bring - in better care coordination, management of chornic diseases, and preventing disease and suffering. It's to achieve lower cost through better care and better health." Listen in on this fascinating discussion.
Wednesday July 9th, 2014 our guest is former Director of the Office of the National Coodinator for HealthIT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari. Since leaving ONC, he's been busy as a Visiting Fellow for Economic Studies at the Brookings Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform where his work centered on 'helping clinicians improve care and patient health through health IT, focusing on small practice transformation by developing innovative payment models that can better support these types of practices.' Meanwhile Dr Mostashari in concert with healthcare reform advisor to President Obama, and Venrock Partner Bob Kocher has been actively baking an ACO management company who's mission is to support - if not stmulate - physician led accountable care collaborations. Aledade launched June 18th, 2014 to much 'physician friend fanfare'; follow on twitter via @AledadeACO. The company describes itself as follows: 'Aledade ACOs are networks of primary care physicians who band together to deliver coordinated care to their patient populations. They operate under a payment structure designed to reward patient outcomes rather than solely paying for tests, procedures, and hospitalizations. Join Dr. Phil Marshall and me for an exploration of the company's business model, its principal market mission and managerial platforms.
On the Wednesday, November 20th broadcast at 9:30AM Pacific/12:30 PM Eastern our special guest is Farzad Mostashari, MD visiting fellow of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, and former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services. According to his bio at Brookings: 'Dr. Mostashari's work covers a range of topics related to helping clinicians improve care and patient health through health IT, focusing on small practice transformation by developing innovative payment models that can better support these types of practices. This work will include expanding the reach of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Learning Network, a Brookings-Dartmouth project that provides participating organizations the tools necessary to successfully implement accountable care.' As the Health and Human Services point person at ONC, Farzad was a higly visible, articulate and effective advocate for the adoption of health information technology. On the broadcast today, we'll get reflections on his ONC tenure, and how that experience informs what he sees ahead as core enabling drivers of the transformation agenda of the American healthcare ecosystem. Join us for key insights from this nationally prominent healthcare leader.
Proclaiming "today is the best time to be a healthcare entrepreneur in America", Unites States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra stood before a room of health IT and business leaders at the HIMSS 2011 Health IT Venture Fair & Strategic Partner Forum. Kicking off the pre-conference panel of government leaders in health IT, management and policy. Joining Chopra were Peter Levin, CIO of the Veterans Administration, and Farzad Mostashari, MD Deputy National Coordinator of the Office of National Coordinator, the office overseeing technical and policy aspects of US healthcare transformation efforts. The one-day venture forum preceded the HIMSS 2011 Annual Conference & Exposition, and focused on driving healthcare IT related innovation and economic development opportunities in the private sector based on opportunities presented in the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts.