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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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Modern Healthcare report on the squeeze in hospital operating margins (June 23, 2014)

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Operating margin is the easiest way to determine a company’s pricing strategy and operating efficiency.   It is the simplest way to understand how much a company makes on each dollar of sales.  For non-profit hospitals, a positive operating margin means that there is money available to fund additional services; with
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Lessons From Ice Hockey: How Gainsharing Fits Into a Population Health Strategy

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I was a big Philadelphia Flyers fan in the heyday of their Stanley Cup Championships in the 1970s.   One of the saddest events I can recall is when Flyer Hall of Fame goalie Bernie Parent’s career ended in February 1979 when an errant stick hit him in the eye, finding an unprotected area through his fiberglass mask. Now
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