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Lessons Learned from a Hospital-Physician Gainsharing Program

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This month, hfm Magazine explores “Lessons Learned from a Hospital-Physician Gainsharing Program, examining the experiences of the New Jersey Hospital Association, the Greater New York Hospital Association, and their member hospitals. NJHA’s SVP Sean Hopkins, AMS VP Anthony Stanowski, and I discuss the leadership lessons learned using the 8-step process for leading change advanced in the seminal 1996 book, Leading Change by Dr. John Kotter, Emeritus Professor of Harvard Business School.

By documenting the key lessons learned from the associations that administered gainsharing programs and the hospitals that implemented them, we hope that this article provides guidance to health care providers not just in implementing gainsharing programs, but also as they undergo the change management process for other forms of alternative payment systems.

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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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6 Essential Differences Between Gainsharing and Shared Savings Programs

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With many approaches being considered by hospitals to engage physicians and align incentives we often get questions on the differences between shared savings and gainsharing.  We were excited when Becker’s Hospital CFO released on September 23, 2014 an article called “6 essential differences between gainsharing and shared savings programs” written by myself and AMS VP Anthony Stanowski.

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AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Profiles NJHA/AMS Medicare Gainsharing Pilot Demonstration

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The July 16, 2014 issue of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care Innovation Exchange (http://innovations.ahrq.gov/profiles/hospital-gain-sharing-program-offers-incentives-physicians-based-their-efficiency-producing) reviews the results of the 3-year NJHA/AMS Medicare  Gainsharing Pilot Read More