Monthly Archives: December 2014

Using Gainsharing to Transition to an ACO at JFK Health: 6 Critical Success Factors

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Implementing an ACO is one of the most difficult strategic transformations that a health care system can attempt. The alignment of physicians and hospitals that comes from gainsharing helps to ensure a successful ACO launch.

Using Gainsharing to Transition to an ACO at JFK Health: 6 Critical Success Factors examines one organization’s experience with how a gainsharing program helped in its transition to an ACO.  The article was featured in the December 2014 issue of Accountable Care News, and is coauthored by myself and William Oser, MD, the Acting Executive Director, JFK Health ACO; Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, JFK Health (Edison, NJ).

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Breaking Down Internal Silos

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As hospitals initiate new strategies to transition from fee-for- service to population health, many times the programs are established in a vacuum.  Managers in one are unaware of what the managers of another are working on – sound familiar.  That age old problem of “silo mentality”.  This may be due to a number of 
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5 Steps to Physician Alignment Using Gainsharing

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Gainsharing provides a stepping stone by beginning the process of getting physicians and hospitals to work together to successfully transition to value-based models.  On November 25, 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review released an article written by myself and AMS VP Anthony Stanowski called “5 steps to physician alignment using gainsharing.” 
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