In an effort to improve patient outcomes while addressing rapidly rising healthcare costs, the Affordable Care Act encouraged the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In the past few years, a number of ACOs have been established with varying models. With a number of uncertainties remaining around the ultimate role of ACOs, this panel will investigate current ACO models and discuss the potential future impact of these organizations across stakeholders.
Matt serves clients within the life science industry on a range of commercial strategy issues. He has particular experience in leading projects focused on market access, pricing, and contracting strategies, product positioning and launch strategies, and market opportunity identification. He has a specialized focus in complex hematology/oncology, infectious disease, and orphan disease markets, with past experience in immunology, CNS and cardiovascular disease. Matt has led several recent projects helping biopharmaceutical clients develop winning engagement strategies for ACOs and other integrated delivery networks. He has authored white papers and been a featured speaker on topics including alternative pricing and market access agreements, and orphan product investment strategies. Prior to joining Putnam, Matt worked for a retirement policy think tank conducting analysis on trends affecting the finances and health outcomes of an aging populace. He earned his MBA from the Yale School of Management in Yale's focused Healthcare MBA program, and his BA in Business Economics from Boston College.
Jonathan Gordon is a Director in the Office of Strategy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where his focus is on healthcare reform and its implications for the institution. Jon works closely with senior leadership at the hospital and its affiliated medical schools (Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons) on a wide variety of projects, ranging from analyzing alternate payment models such as accountable care organizations, to leading the hospital's participation in the Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, to helping plan a personalized genomic medicine program, to improving patient access to care, to creating a strategic plan for information technology. Jon is a guest lecturer for Weill Cornell Medical College.
Additionally, Jon is also Director of the Health Policy Center at NewYork-Presbyterian, which advocates for the role of Academic Health Centers in developing solutions to the challenges facing the American healthcare system. In this role, he authors policy papers on topics such as value improvement in healthcare and the crisis in mental health, and organizes conferences around key policy issues. Prior joining NYP, Jon helped found and served as Chief Operating Officer of EveryDay Medical, an ecommerce-based provider of home and durable medical equipment. He was the first employee of Kargo, a wireless internet technology company, and has worked in development for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He has also served as an advisor to a wide range of organizations, from start-up businesses to regional healthcare providers. Jon is a Mentor for Blueprint Health, a start-up incubator in New York City, and a Director of Costs of Care, a not-for-profit dedicated to increasing cost awareness among clinicians.
Jon holds a BA cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an MBA with honors from Columbia University.
Sree Chaguturu, MD is Vice President of Population Health Management at Partners HealthCare and is part of the leadership team focused on insuring that Partners meets its aspirations of improving quality and reducing costs for the populations it serves. Partners is an integrated health care delivery system in Boston, Massachusetts, that includes two large academic medical centers – Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital – with more than 6000 physicians. Along with his responsibilities of implementing the Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organization and assisting with the development of population health information technology, Dr. Chaguturu is the Medical Director for the self-insured Partners employees and dependents. Prior to joining Partners, Dr. Chaguturu was a health care consultant at McKinsey and Company and Vice President of the McKinsey Hospital Institute. He is a practicing internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chaguturu received his internal medicine and primary care training at Massachusetts General Hospital and received his undergraduate and medical degree from Brown University.
Jeb Dunkelberger is one of the youngest appointed Directors at McKesson Corporation, which is the oldest and largest healthcare company in the United States. Currently McKesson employees over 85,000 professionals with annual revenue in excess of $160Bn. Mr. Dunkelberger’s current role focuses on the development and management of Accountable Care Services, with a specific focus on ACO and ACO-like organizations. Mr. Dunkelberger is also the President of Dark Mountain Healthcare Services, which works in both Asian and African markets, providing professional services to global health advocacy networks and providers alike. Prior to joining McKesson Corporation, he was a Senior Consultant for EY’s (formerly Ernst & Young) Healthcare Advisory, Performance Improvement division. Mr. Dunkelberger has also worked as an internal consultant at Duke University Hospital and Christiana Care Health System.
Jeb has been published numerous times for his innovative views on care delivery and healthcare reform, and has been recognized as one of the youngest leaders spearheading this movement. He received a BS in Health Studies from Virginia Tech, a dual university MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics & Political Science and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a Masters Certificate from Cornell University in Healthcare Leadership & Facilities Design.
Mikki Nasch has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur building high growth technology companies focused on data driven decisions. She is the co-founder of The Activity Exchange which brings the science behind consumer marketing to the healthcare challenge. The data that is collected takes patient insight to a totally new level, surfacing factors that influence, understanding the relationship between those factors and enabling, with time, effective intervention based on actual evidence.
Mikki is an advisor to HiQ and UofR institute of Data Science.
She has held executive leadership roles in Sense Networks, Fair Isaac, Company DNA, BackWeb & Reuters.