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Amanda L. Goltz, MPA is the U.S. Lead for Worldwide Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS), responsible for managing a portfolio of digital health companies and driving opportunities with AWS's enterprise healthcare and life sciences business. In a previous role at Amazon, Amanda led partnerships to power voice AI experiences at Alexa Health and Wellness. Before coming to Amazon, Amanda was Vice President of Digital Innovation at BTG (now Boston Scientific), a global medtech, managing the portfolio of digital initiatives combining clinical interventions, device technology, and digital services to incorporate the patient experience and improve measurable outcomes. As part of this role, Amanda founded Oncoverse, a software startup in cancer care, in a joint venture with CommonSpirit Health. Previously, Amanda was the Director of Product Strategy and Innovation at Aetna, sourcing emerging solutions from the digital health and innovative networks marketplace, pairing them with employer clients, and directing implementation of the solutions at scale. Amanda has led innovation and strategy initiatives at Pacific Business Group on Health, a large employer coalition; the State of California, MassGeneralBrigham, and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Amanda advises several start-up companies as a mentor for the Alexa Fund, 500Startups, Rock Health, and StartXMed, the health and life sciences incubator for Stanford University.

Elizabeth Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition representing some of the country's largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers. She graduated from Reed College with a degree in religion, and went on to get elected to the Maine State Legislature as a single mom in her mid-20's. The post 925: How to Break Into the Healthcare Industry With Elizabeth Mitchell, PBGH [Espresso Shots] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Elizabeth Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition representing some of the country’s largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers.  Together they are working to create the healthcare system organizations are proud to offer their workers.   The post 726: How to Become a State Legislator as a Young Single Mom With Elizabeth Mitchell, PBGH [K-Cup DoubleShot] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Elizabeth Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition representing some of the country’s largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers.  Together they are working to create the healthcare system organizations are proud to offer their workers. The post 723: What the U.S.. Healthcare System is All About With Elizabeth Mitchell, PBGH [K-Cup TripleShot] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Elizabeth Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition representing some of the country’s largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers.  Together they are working to create the health care system organizations are proud to offer their workers. The post 720: How to Get Into the Healthcare Field With Elizabeth Mitchell, PBGH [K-Cup TripleShot] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Elizabeth Mitchell is the president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition representing some of the country’s largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers.  Together they are working to create the health care system organizations are proud to offer their workers. The post 717: What It’s Like to be CEO of a Nonprofit Healthcare Coalition With Elizabeth Mitchell, PBGH [Main T4C Episode] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Dr. K sits down with Elizabeth Mitchell, President and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), who shares how self-funded employers are seeking improved access to higher quality care. 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/

Congress seems on the verge of finishing a long-delayed COVID-19 relief bill, which will reportedly include neither of the things each party wanted most — for Republicans, liability protections; for Democrats, funding for states and localities. That bill is likely to be tied to a package to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year and, possibly, include a fix for “surprise” medical bills that patients receive when they inadvertently receive care outside their insurance network. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Mary Agnes Carey of KHN join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner talks to Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, about the future of employer-provided health insurance.

Join Zero's Chief Medical Officer, Stan Schwartz, and Lauren Vela, Senior Director Member Value at the Pacific Business Group on Health, as they discuss the avenues of providing higher value healthcare to your employees.

Join Zero's Chief Medical Officer, Stan Schwartz, and Anne Ladd, Associate Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health, as they discuss the future of employer-sponsored insurance.

In its inaugural episode, Healthy Dose of Dialogue host Don Antonucci is joined by Elizabeth Mitchell, President and CEO of Pacific Business Group on Health, to discuss essential primary care foundations for a high value health care system.  Discover why the time is right to start transforming our health care system today.

Welcome to the ASCO Daily News podcast. I'm Lauren Davis, and joining me today is Dr. Linda Bosserman, assistant clinical professor at City of Hope in Southern California where she is a breast cancer specialist who does research and projects in value-based care for the organization. Dr. Bosserman is also editor in chief of the Journal of Oncology Practice who served as chair for the third annual Oncology Practice Conference that just concluded last week. Dr. Bosserman, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. We're glad you're here. So you've just returned from the conference. How was this year's event compared with previous years? Well, the feedback was that this was the most successful oncology practice meeting that we've had. I have to really give credit to my planning committee including the co-chair of Barry Rousseau and the imminent Robin Zahn, who is the chair of last year's conference, and all three of us have been on the planning committee with many really amazing national specialists to put this together. The focus this year was really on issues of administration and practice that would help people within community practice or academics in improving quality and care delivery. What were some of the key themes and presentations of this year's conference? So we divided the conference into five major topics. The first was practical solutions for something we all deal with every day-- physician compensation and succession planning. There were incredible talks led by Barry Rousseau and Tracy Weisberg, but with Lance [INAUDIBLE] from Stratify Health Consultants, Dean Gest, Mia Long, experienced oncologists with Texas Oncology from Minnesota Oncology with a lot of succession planning wisdom and Brad Sommer from West Clinic who really talked about very different models of hospital-based and private-based compensation and succession planning. That was very successful and helpful the people. The second major topic was implementing a medically integrated pharmacy. So that was led by Steve Giamatto and Paul Fossberg from Minnesota Oncology and from New England Cancer Specialists and really had specials from Ray Bailey from Florida Cancer Specialists, Stacy McCullough Pharm D from Tennessee Oncology and Ira Ciccone from New York Chemo ONC Albany Med Center. I had to laugh because our private practice in 2008 put this in and really helped spur some of the work that went on later at US oncology when we join them and now at City of Hope, a very large multi-specialty, multi-site academic network. And, in fact, this topic was so important there were subsequent key presentations at the oncology quality meeting, which followed the next two days after the business conference so highly recommend those talks. The third talk was really uncharted waters, how to leverage your practice data, led again by Dr. Zahn and Harvey Bickoff and included Kathleen Beekham from IHA, hematology oncology, talked about practice net and the benchmarking data, Kimberly Woofter, who is really from [INAUDIBLE] and Christian [INAUDIBLE] who is with UnitedHealthcare and a former ASCO administrator. Another key topic on how to use data both for your internal processes, improving care delivery, and quality as well as to negotiate high-quality care with payers and employers. Our fourth topic was really about value-based contracting, which is the theme of all of our current lives, really led by again Barry Rosseau and Robert Baird of Dayton Physicians and, of course, Barry from Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Steve Grubbs from ASCO talked about the PCOP model and fundamental components of contracting. Julie Royalty from Humana spoke, and Terrell Jordan from regional Cancer Care Associates in New Jersey spoke. Lot of wisdom in how we're all navigating this value-based contracting transition as we move from volume-base to value-based contracting and care delivery. And then this is really tied together in our keynote presentation from Laura Simon and Olivia Ross, both from the Pacific Business Group on Health who really talked about the employer review and that the majority of private care is covered by employers. They're seeing 10% to 12% of their costs for 1% to 2% of their employees depending on the age of the population. They want rapid access to very precise personalized cancer care, the state of the art, but they want it cost effectively and they want integration between the centers that do specialty surgery and transplant and [INAUDIBLE] with local physicians that can provide that hands on local care to the patient and their family in the community. So those topics really tied together as the key issues that are affecting practices today regardless of the setting that you're in. That's interesting. A lot of fascinating topics that really do affect everyone within a practice. So I'm curious, what are some of the challenges of practices are facing. If practices are moving more towards a value-based system, how do you see that working going forward? Everything was about the move to value whether it's compensation, succession, data, how we contract, implementing programs including [INAUDIBLE] integrated pharmacy, and how we work with employers. So that really is a challenge for small practices because we're talking about an extensive set of data and administrative oversight and reporting as well as a comprehensive set of care delivery. So for small practices, it means networking with larger groups, networking with academic centers, or national groups that are reaching out on behalf of employers to help them have the tools they need or telemedicine those services to their practice or send patients very selectively to major centers and then return to small practices. And then, of course, we're seeing the large move across the country with academic centers networking with large groups of local providers so that there can be one standard of care and meet this need as well as other groups such as US oncology providing network services across the country. So these themes really were reflected here in the moved to value, and we saw several of these subsequently in the oncology quality symposia where they presented research and panels on these same themes. So there were a lot of great presentations there that really were the foundation, and the issues were raised at the business conference, which I highly recommend. That's great. It sounds like these themes really tie together. They do because they're really front and center for how we're practicing medicine, how we're providing services, what kind of services we're providing both in the practices in different settings, or networking those services, and overall ensuring that every patient has access to personalized precision oncology care, supportive care, end of life care, preventive care through the oncology experts who all show up every day to make this available to their patients. And I think what's exciting is that if you attended the conference, you can have access to the live videos and the slides at opc.asco.org. And if you didn't attend, you can go on the ASCO website and purchase the videos and the slides, which I highly recommend because they were so focused on the real problems that people are facing administratively and in clinician leadership in whatever practice setting you are practicing in. That's very true. Again today my guest has been Dr. Linda Bosserman. Thanks so much for being on our podcast today. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. And to our listeners, thank you for tuning into the ASCO Daily News podcast. You can find all of ASCO's podcasts on podcast.asco.org. If you're enjoying the content, we encourage you to subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

“If operating on the wrong leg is called a ‘medical error,’ what do we call operating on someone who doesn’t need surgery?” That is a quote I have heard attributed to Jack Wennberg. It also crystalizes a theme I have been hearing a lot lately—the idea that quality metrics in this country today assess care from basically a patient safety standpoint but they don’t consider whether the patient actually needed the surgery or whatever in the first place. Or whether the outcome of the treatment matched an outcome the patient understood and had hoped for. I get into this in depth, by the way, with Dr. Suzanne Clough (EP235); and I’m going to get into it again in my upcoming interview with Dr. Marty Makary (EP242). In this health care podcast, I speak with Olivia Ross. Olivia has a reputation as a “rock star in the employer coalition world,” and I say this because it was a direct quote from an email I received after I mentioned that she was coming on the show. Olivia earned her rock star chops at the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH). Olivia is the associate director of the Employers Centers of Excellence Network, otherwise known as ECEN. What Olivia has worked on at ECEN is to put together a network of centers of excellence (COEs), meaning provider organizations that have committed to prospective bundled care payments for services like orthopedic surgeries, oncology, and bariatric surgery. Not only do these organizations … well, not only have they demonstrated excellence, but they also have demonstrated that they only treat patients who are appropriate to treat. Employers including Walmart, Lowes, and McKesson use this network. In my interview with her, Olivia discusses how the COEs are selected and exactly how employers intercept employees at the right waypoint along their patient journey, fly them or get them to travel to the COE, and then repatriate them back home with their local PCP (primary care provider) for follow-up care. I’m not sure if repatriate is the right word to use there, but I’m going to go with it. You can learn more at Pacific Business Group on Health.  Olivia Ross, MBA, MPH, is associate director of the Employers Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN) at the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH). Olivia oversees the ECEN program, a national, multi-employer initiative developed as part of PBGH’s commitment to value-based purchasing. Olivia leads center assessment, selection, and ongoing evaluation; facilitates employer collaboration; and directs network-wide quality improvement efforts for the ECEN joint replacement, spine, bariatric, and oncology programs. Prior to joining PBGH in 2012, Olivia managed several foundation and National Institutes of Health–supported research projects at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine focused on patient safety, risk assessment, improving clinician communication, and provider teamwork. 03:05 Medical travel: what’s the benefit to the employer? 04:26 Prospective bundles and the cost of care. 05:09 How the largest cost savings come from the improvements in quality. 06:43 What Olivia looks for in choosing centers of excellence. 07:28 How pervasive is medical travel? 08:52 Creating market pressure and avoiding consolidation. 09:33 Creating positive disruption in the health care system. 09:56 How Olivia chooses the centers and providers she works with in the Pacific Business Group on Health. 10:52 The quality metrics Pacific Business Group on Health looks at when assessing providers and centers. 11:44 What a team assessment is, and why it’s important. 12:49 How local PCPs have to factor into this health care model. 15:45 How Pacific Business Group on Health intervenes in the patient journey to ensure that the patient and the employer are getting the best quality care for the best price. 17:29 Olivia’s suggestions on how to have an intervening conversation with a patient who has already been told he or she needs surgery. 22:58 “Even at a more competitive price point, there’s still an upside to them getting this new business.” 23:23 How choosing specific physicians is part of the COE designation process. 24:38 How COEs and their physicians are also involved in continuous quality improvement. 28:03 Employers Centers of Excellence Network collaboration with The Leapfrog Group. 29:32 How the Employers Centers of Excellence Network program is open to any employer, no matter the size. 30:03 What it takes to join the Employers Centers of Excellence Network. You can learn more at Pacific Business Group on Health.  Medical travel: what’s the benefit to the employer? Olivia Ross of @PBGH_updates discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #medicaltravel #centersofexcellence #ECEN #PBGH #Prospectivebundles and the #costofcare. Olivia Ross of @PBGH_updates discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #medicaltravel #centersofexcellence #ECEN #PBGH Where do the largest #costsavings in health care come from? Olivia Ross of @PBGH_updates discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #medicaltravel #centersofexcellence #ECEN #PBGH Why do #qualityimprovements actually save the most money in #healthcarecosts? Olivia Ross of @PBGH_updates discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #medicaltravel #centersofexcellence #ECEN #PBGH What does it take to become a #centerofexcellence? 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Suzanne Delbanco calls Rachel Brodie, Director of the Performance Information programs at Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) to discuss patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Listen in to learn how PROs work and why employers are paying attention to this new area of quality measurement.

Why is it so important that employers pay close attention to their formularies? Emily Roesing calls Lauren Vela, Senior Director of Member Value at the Pacific Business Group on Health, to learn about the headaches and waste caused for employers, patients, and providers from our current method of pharmacy benefit management and how employers may be able to join forces to improve it.

David Lansky, President and CEO Pacific Business Group on Health Series: "Quality Improvement and Health Care Reform" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 32066]

David Lansky, President and CEO Pacific Business Group on Health Series: "Quality Improvement and Health Care Reform" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 32066]

Value-Based Health Care and Purchaser Value Network: Interview with David Lansky, PhD, President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health Today’s episode is about value-based health care and the Purchaser Value Network, a new nationwide initiative to educate key purchaser sectors – private employers, states, and federal purchasers – on value-based purchasing and to leverage best practices and lessons learned to accelerate the adoption of value-based payment and care delivery reforms.  Kip Piper interviews David Lansky, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Business Group on Health on the Purchaser Value Network.  Led by the Pacific Business Group on Health or PBGH, the Purchaser Value Network is a network of and for purchasers that aims to accelerate the adoption of high value healthcare delivery and payment models through policy advocacy, education and training, and purchaser engagement.  It is an effort to inject purchaser perspectives and innovative best practices into federal and state policy decision making, educate employers about value-based purchasing and advocacy opportunities, and align the most powerful buyers of healthcare - private employers, state Medicaid agencies, public employers, and the federal Medicare program - around evidence-based practices. The Pacific Business Group on Health represents large national and regional purchasers, both public and private, that together buy health care for some 10 million individuals across the US.  PBGH, which runs an impressive array of successful health innovations to manage costs and improve outcomes, also collaborates with a diverse range of stakeholders on national health care policy issues. Dr. David Lansky, one of the nation’s top experts in accountability, quality measurement, and health IT, has led PBGH since 2008.  Dr. Lansky’s impressive background includes service on the boards, as a founder, or as an advisor to many of the nation’s top organizations dedicated to improving outcomes, reforming payment, reducing medical errors, increasing transparency, and advancing the use of health information technology. Learn more about the Purchaser Value Network at www.pvnetwork.org.  Learn about the Pacific Business Group on Health at www.pbgh.org and follow on Twitter at @PBGH_Updates. The MediStrategy podcast covers hot business and policy issues in Medicaid, Medicare, and health reform, with interviews with leaders and experts and insights on health policy, finance, and business strategy.  Subscribe free and listen on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or any podcast app. Learn more at www.MediStrategy.com. MediStrategy is hosted by Kip Piper, a national expert on Medicare, Medicaid, and health reform.  A prominent consultant, speaker, and author, Kip Piper advises health plans, hospitals and health systems, state Medicaid agencies, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, medical device and diagnostics companies, private equity firms, and health industry groups. Website: www.KipPiper.com Blog: www.PiperReport.com Podcast: www.MediStrategy.com Twitter: @KipPiper LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kippiper   

David Lansky, President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health, looks at health care and costs from the employer’s perspective. Series: "Quality Improvement and Health Care Reform" [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 25106]

David Lansky, President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health, looks at health care and costs from the employer’s perspective. Series: "Quality Improvement and Health Care Reform" [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 25106]

Many would agree that healthcare delivery today is inefficient, ineffective, and segmented. In this panel discussion, experts talk about how they have persisted in delivering high-quality treatment. They discuss innovations in redesigning and scaling operations for wider benefit, the realities of implementation, and the need to train clinical workers in delivering compassionate care. The discussion was part of the 2011 Healthcare Summit, held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Gerald (Jerry) Coil is special assistant to the CMO, AltaMed Health Services. He has served as an internal consultant at AltaMed; senior consultant at Cattaneo & Stroud, Inc.; executive vice president and COO at HealthSpring; president and CEO at MHN; senior vice president at Health Net; senior vice president, benefit administration, at Kaiser Permanente; partner at NorthShore LLC; and regional vice president, Pacific Rim at North American Medical Management/Phycor. Thomas Lee is an MD with One Medical Group. He specializes in primary care internal medicine with an emphasis on preventive health, complex cases and quality improvement. Lee graduated from Yale University and the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed his residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital before serving as editor-in-chief for the widely used drug reference application Epocrates. He then founded One Medical Group as a step toward improving primary care delivery. Paul Wallace is director of the Lewin Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research. A board certified physician in internal medicine and hematology, he is a renowned lecturer on topics including evidence-based medicine practice and policy; performance improvement and measurement; clinical practice guideline development; population-based care and disease management; new technology assessment; and comparative assessment. He serves on advisory committees at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and is a member of a number of healthcare-related boards. Arnold Milstein is professor of medicine and leader of Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. His career and ongoing research are focused on acceleration of clinical service innovations that improve the societal value of health care. He serves as the medical director of the Pacific Business Group on Health, the largest regional health care improvement coalition in the U.S. He also guides employer-sponsored clinically-based innovation development for Mercer Health and Benefits. Previously he co-founded the Leapfrog Group and Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project, and served as a Congressionally-appointed MedPAC Commissioner. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/service_innovation