January 2020   Health Insights Visionary, market-relevant health care solutions How COPE Health Solutions is Transforming Health Care 2020 Healthcare Forecast: 4 Key Trends and 10 Essential Strategies The new decade has barely begun, but already 2020 is shaping up to be another pivotal year in health care. Here are four rock-solid, multi-year trends that continue to define the biggest opportunities and challenges facing both providers and payors. View the article by Allen Miller and Andrew Snyder, MD. read more Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model: Should You Apply? The VBID Model aims to increase health care quality and decrease costs for Medicare Advantage by leveraging financial incentives to promote cost-efficient health care services and expand consumer choice. Should you apply? Read the article by Carla D'Angelo and Rachel Beaton. read more Population Health and the AMC Chase - Five Hurdles to Value-Based Care Academic Medical Centers are late to the population health game and have been playing catch-up. They are challenged by obstacles that make transformations difficult as change requires new levels of collaboration across the entire organization. Read the article by Andrew Snyder, MD and Sarin Khachatourians. read more EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCEMENT Andrew Snyder, MD, has joined COPE Health Solutions as Principal and Chief Medical Officer of our fast-growing national health care business advisory firm and Analytics for Risk Contracting (ARC) SAAS platform. As a key leader in our firm and thought leader nationally, he will share his deep expertise in population health management, clinical integration and alternative payment models with health systems, hospitals, physician organizations and health plans as they to move to value-based care. Dr. Snyder has experience developing clinical strategy for population health across health systems. READ FULL BIO ALUMNI ACCOLADES Congrats to our distinguished alum, Jacey Cooper, for being appointed state Medicaid Director and Chief Deputy Director of Health Care Programs at the Department of Health Care Services! Jacey has been senior advisor of health care programs and assistant deputy director of health care delivery systems at the Department of Health Care Services since 2016. We are so proud to have had Jacey on our team from 2009 to 2010 for a ground-breaking project in Kern County. Jacey was part of a team that implemented the Coverage Initiative Waiver with Kern Medical Center through the development of a health plan, FQHC network, enhanced specialty access and a care navigation program for the uninsured. The work on the Coverage Initiative in California was a prelude to the ACA. Congrats Jacey! We're so proud of your accomplishments and commitment to serve the people of California! IN THE NEWS COPE Health Solutions has been featured in the following articles this past month. Check it out! State of Reform – Insiders React to Newsom’s Budget Proposal Payor-Provider Partnerships are the Cornerstone of Improving Health Plan Quality Scores IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Featured Articles Did you miss our top articles from previous editions of Health Insights? Read them now! Top Considerations to Assess Readiness for CMS Medicare Direct Contracting New York’s DSRIP Extension and Renewal Request: What’s New, What’s Changed and What’s Unclear RECENT AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Ranked #19 among the 20 largest health care consulting firms of 2019 by Modern Healthcare Placed at #21 in Consulting Magazine’s 2018 ranking of fastest-growing consulting firms Listed as one of the population health management companies to know in 2018 and 2019 by Becker’s Hospital Review About us COPE Health Solutions is a national mission-driven consulting firm that partners with health systems and payors to develop and implement comprehensive population health management and workforce development strategies. Have you gone social with us yet? copehealthsolutions.com LOS ANGELES NEW YORK This email was sent to <<Email Address>> why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences COPE Health Solutions · 505 5th Ave · 11th Floor · New York, NY 10017 · USA