The ACO Show

130. Building Trust and Aledade Care Solutions with Dr. Mandy Cohen

Josh and Brian are joined by Dr. Mandy Cohen, CEO of Aledade Care Solutions, to discuss the importance of the trust she and her team built with communities in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic and how that parallels building trust with physicians and management organizations in the value-based care movement. They also talk about how Aledade Care Solutions has evolved as a direct-to-patient arm of Aledade’s portfolio with the goal of adding additional resources to improve patient outcomes.

129. Healthcare Investing and IPOs

Josh (@DrJIsrael) is joined by Bijan Salhizadeh (@bijans), Managing Director at NaviMed Capital, to discuss the current state of healthcare stocks and factors that affect IPO valuation for companies hoping to go public.

128. Health Care Access For Vulnerable Populations

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Chelsea Graves, Aledade’s Director of Medicaid Performance, to discuss factors that affect healthcare access and outcomes for vulnerable populations. Chelsea also shares the secrets behind the success of Aledade’s recent collaboration with the Community Health Center Association of Mississippi (CHCAMS) to serve the Medicaid population and improve their access to primary care.

127. 2021 Medicare Shared Savings Program Results

Season 4 of the ACO show kicks off with the return of Travis Broome @Travis_Broome and Ahmed Haque @aehaque on 2021 results in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, why more primary care lowers the total cost of taking care of patients, and some changes coming to the MSSP program for 2023.

126. How Do ACOs Grow

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Miranda Morris, Aledade’s Market President for Arkansas and Dr. Shawn Purifoy, Regional Medical Director at Aledade and independent physician, to discuss how value-based care networks like ACOs grow.

125. Commercial Value-Based Care

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Dr. Andy Ryan - Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, Director of the University’s Center for Evaluating Health Reform who takes us through a recent paper looking at the evidence on value-based care among commercial health insurance contracts.

124. Tackling Team-Based Care

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Dr. Jonathan Lilly, physician, and Nancee Barnett, practice manager, from Dunbar Medical Associates (www.dmawv.com) in West Virginia, to discuss their approach to team-based care and why it’s important for the success of a practice.

123. The Deadline To Join An ACO Is Approaching - Join An Aledade ACO Today

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Dan Bowles, Aledade’s Chief Growth Officer, to discuss his career at Aledade, the changes that the value-based care movement has seen through the years, and why signing up for an ACO today can help set primary care organizations up for success for the upcoming performance year.

122. Project Solo: Supporting Small Primary Care Practices

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Mat Kendall (@matkendall), President of Aledade, and Kristy McGlothin (@kristymcglothin), Program Manager, to learn about Project Solo, Aledade’s initiative to support the unique needs of small private practices. They also speak with Dr. Pedro Ylisastigui (www.primarycareim.com), an internal medicine primary care provider in Lehigh Acres, Florida, about being independent and what it’s like to switch ACOs.

121. What is “Product?”

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@chiglinsky) are joined by Nick Kinkaid, Aledade’s Chief Product Officer who takes us through his career path from Tesla to Google to his current role, and he explains what is “Product” and how it applies at a company like Aledade.