NHPF/Health Affairs Session Looks at Interventions to Improve Care for Older Adults
This session geared to policy makers is jointly sponsored by the National Health Policy Forum and Health Affairs and looks at two interventions for older adults aimed at improving care and reducing costs. Both have been featured in articles published in Health Affairs under the John A. Hartford Foundation-supported Aging & Health series. The session will take place September 18, 2015 from 11:45 AM- 2:15 PM EST in Washington D.C.
This session geared to policy makers is jointly sponsored by the National Health Policy Forum and Health Affairs and looks at two interventions for older adults aimed at improving care and reducing costs. Both have been featured in articles published in Health Affairs under the John A. Hartford Foundation-supported Aging & Health series. The session will take place September 18, 2015 from 11:45 AM- 2:15 PM EST in Washington D.C.
The Geisinger Health System’s ProvenHealth Navigator® is an advanced patient-centered medical home that embeds case managers in clinics. These case managers combine physicians' knowledge of their patients with results from predictive modeling and risk stratification software to identify high-risk older adults likely to benefit from intensive services. The Comprehensive Care Physician model at the University of Chicago Medical Center seeks to avoid the problems created by the lack of coordination and communication between hospitalists and primary care physicians by enabling primary care physicians to care for their patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. It focuses a physician's practice on patients at high risk for hospitalization so the physician will have "enough hospitalized patients to have a meaningful daily physical presence in the hospital while still allowing them to provide ambulatory care."
In addition to delving into these two models, the session will offer commentary on prior initiatives to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivered to older adults, their successes and failures, and the challenges of bringing successful interventions to scale in the Medicare program.
A Discussion Featuring:
Thomas Graf, MD
National Director of Population Health Management
The Chartis Group (current)
Former Chief Medical Officer
Population Health and Longitudinal Health Care Services Lines
Geisinger Health System
David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD
Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine
Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS)
Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Economics and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago
Randall Brown, PhD
Director, Health Research Senior Fellows
Mathematica Policy Research
Robert Berenson, MD
Institute Fellow
The Urban Institute
Health Affairs articles:
David O. Meltzer and Gregory W. Ruhnke, "Redesigning Care For Patients At Increased Hospitalization Risk: The Comprehensive Care Physician Model," Health Affairs, 33, No. 5, May 2014, pp. 770-777.
Daniel D. Maeng et al., "Reduced Acute Inpatient Care Was Largest Savings Component of Geisinger Health System's Patient-Centered Medical Home," Health Affairs, 33, No. 4, April 2015, pp. 636-644.
If you do not have access to the electronic registration system, please email your complete contact information to nhpfmeet@gwu.edu.
