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Attend to Learn How to Succeed with Greater Risk!
New Track for ACO Clinical Teams
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2019 is guaranteed to be a critical year for ACOs, as CMS encourages greater risk-taking to hasten the transition to value-based care.
Attend the NAACOS Spring 2019 Conference to learn how these changes affect your ACO and what your ACO can do to succeed with more down-side
risk. Our two-day conference will draw more than 650 ACO leaders and will feature presentations from noted ACO experts and CMS officials,
as well as opportunities for networking and peer to-peer learning. Optional half-day workshops on April 24 will provide in-depth tutorials
on key issues for the ACO community.
New this Spring! Breakout sessions will be designed to meet the educational needs of three distinct audiences: health care
administrators, clinical teams, or advanced payment models. Choose the track designed for your situation - or select topics across tracks to
customize your experience and maximize your learning!
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Highlights from the Agenda
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Open Mic with CMS
This town hall format is a perennial favorite among NAACOS conference attendees because it allows ACO executives an excellent opportunity to ask
questions and receive answers directly from the leaders of the CMS Performance Based Payment Policy Group and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation.
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Healthcare Leaders on the Future of Value-based Care
The conference will feature a plenary with Brian Gragnolati, chair of the American Hospital Trustees, and Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, chair-elect of the
American Medical Association's Board of Trustees. The two healthcare leaders will share their thoughts on the future of value-based care as well as
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For ACO Administrators
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ACO Innovations, chaired by Jen Moore, MaineHealth
How do ACOs innovate? Learn about award-winning innovations and how you can apply their success to your ACO. This session will feature the winning
submissions to NAACOS Call for ACO Innovations. NAACOS is accepting submissions to the call through January 25, 2018.
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Adapting your ACO to Pathways to Success
In these sessions, NAACOS staff will review new federal policies affecting ACOs, and ACO leaders will present successful strategies for adapting your
ACO to greater down-side risk.
Part One chaired by: Jennifer Gasperini, NAACOS
Part Two chaired by: Stephen Nuckolls, Coastal Carolina Quality Care
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ACO Leaders in Quality: What's the Secret To Their Success?, chaired by Richard Feifer, Genesis Healthcare
In this session, the audience will hear from some of the highest scoring ACOs in the 2017 Performance Year (PY), including the winner of the NAACOS
Quality Award. Panelists will describe how their ACOs achieved high marks on quality measures in PY 2017. They will share their strategies for success
and discuss internal processes for driving improved clinical quality. The session will also discuss tips on successful ACO Web Interface quality measure
submission as well as pitfalls to avoid.
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Troubleshooting ACO Compliance, chaired by Kimberly Busenbark, Wilems Resource Group
This session will include tangible tips for implementing an effective compliance program, closing training gaps, responding to and preparing for regulatory
changes, and handling a response to CMS when you get a request for information, notice of noncompliance, special monitoring plan, and/or Initial Readiness
Reviews. Come join our discussion, share tips from your ACO, and hear how others have managed to troubleshoot some of the most common obstacles in ACO Compliance.
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For the Clinical Team
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Clinical Models for High-Need, High-Cost Patients, chaired by Rob Mechanic, Institute for Accountable Care
High-need, high-cost (HNHC) individuals make up 5 percent of the population but incur nearly 50 percent of health care spending. Delivering effective care
to these individuals requires holistic approaches that address medical, functional and social needs. This session will focus on two proven approaches: home
visit programs using community health workers, paramedics and nurses; and extensivist models that deploy multi-disciplinary teams to comprehensively address
the needs of high-risk individuals.
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Using Technology in Case Management, chaired by Tony Reed, Geisinger
This panel will explore technology used in combination with successful case management in value-based healthcare, such as ReDSTM Vests, blue tooth scales,
interactive voice response systems, tele-monitoring, and adherence technology and more. These organizations bring years of experience in successful deployment
of technology and best practices for case management to enhance patient management services.
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Clinical Care Redesign, chaired by Rob Fields, Mount Sinai Health System
Success in value-based care requires a fundamental change in how we deliver care. This includes the implementation of team-based care, the use of data and
technology, as well as new strategies to affect behavior change for our patients. This panel will discuss the strategy and implementation of clinical redesign
across two different systems as well as an example of a model for highest risk patients using a multi-disciplinary approach.
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New Frontiers in Achieving Value in Post-Acute Care, chaired by Denise Prince, Mt. Sinai Health System
Leaders from ACOs and post-acute provider systems will provide their perspectives on defining success in a world of changing payment systems, new regulations,
and market consolidation. Topics for this session will include the evolution and current state of SNF and home health networks, application of new technologies,
and how leaders on both sides measure and create value.
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Clinical Issues for Physician-led ACOs, chaired by Elissa Langley, Triad Healthcare
In this session, participants will hear from successful physician-led ACOs about topics that are important to this type of organizational structure. Panelists
will explore how these ACOs have found success in accountable care, learn from pitfalls and challenges they have faced, and understand how to achieve operational
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For Advanced ACOs
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Negotiating Effectively with Private Payers, chaired by Tom Kloos, Atlantic Health
This panel will explore some major themes related to private payer ACO arrangements, including such things as trend against market issues, attribution differences,
calculating total medical expense, and quality multipliers, as well as nuances our panelists have experienced in their negotiations for value-based programs. The
panelists bring years of experience in both successful and unsuccessful commercial value-based program relationships.
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Optimizing the Overlap Between ACOs and Other VBC Models, chaired by Travis Broome, Aledade
Value based payment is becoming a very crowded space. ACOs that can navigate the total value-based payment space will outperform those that only focus on their own
model and fee for service. This panel will help you optimize three areas of overlap: managing multiple models under one organization, working with other organizations
in your market on multiple models and understanding the financial impact of model overlap.
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Leveraging Community Services to Mitigate Social Determinates of Health, chaired by Emily Brower, Trinity
Hear from ACO colleagues who have built connections with community support networks to address the non-medical needs of their ACO population. ACOs are using these
networks and services to address the social determinants of health as part of a whole patient approach to improving care and reducing cost. The panelists will share
their journey including this work as part of their overall strategy, and the results they are starting to see.
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ACO Physician Engagement: Strategies for Driving Clinical and Financial Outcomes from Within, chair TBD
To be successful, an ACO needs active participation and leadership from its physician members. Yet these clinicians often work across large geographic areas and in
diverse settings - employed and independent, urban and rural - and rely on multiple EHRs. Hear examples of how ACOs have leveraged physicians' wisdom to improve
clinical outcomes and reduce utilization. Presenters in this session will discuss their approaches for effective physician engagement, including pod strategies,
performance-based reporting and provider incentives.
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Check out the Full Agenda
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NAACOS Call for Innovations
NAACOS requests submissions from ACOs that showcase innovations which have helped ACOs with every day struggles.
For the spring conference, three submissions will be chosen as the "Best Innovations". The winners will receive:
- an award at the conference,
- the opportunity to present during a breakout session, and
- complementary registration.
Visit our Call for Innovations page
for more information.
Register Early and Save $300
Register before February 28 at a discount of $300 per person. NAACOS member ACOs receive additional discounts on conference
registration fees. If your ACO is not a member, join now and save!
Hotel Reservations
Hilton Baltimore
401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
All reservations must be made by February 28 to qualify for the discounted room rate of $184 plus taxes (based upon availability).
This property fills up quickly - we recommend making your reservations as soon as possible. Reservations made after this date are accepted on a space
and rate available basis only.
Exhibitors
The NAACOS Spring Conference will feature 56 exhibitors with products and services specifically for the ACO community. NAACOS Partners are the only
non-ACOs allowed to attend, exhibit and sponsor NAACOS conferences.
Reserve your space today!
NAACOS conferences are the only events organized exclusively by ACOs. Visit our website for more information on conference registration, exhibit and
sponsor opportunities, and hotel details.
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