BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery

In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Blank Rome partner Barak A. Bassman joins host Eric Tower to talk about how to legally and practically structure value-based care arrangements, and how to navigate those arrangements if they go south. Eric and Barak discuss the critical components to structuring a value-based care program, how to get the program accepted by payers, and what to do when payers move the goal posts and other quality measures. Barak also shares his predictions for the healthcare industry for the remainer of the year.   Barak focuses his practice on managed care contracting and healthcare reimbursement negotiation and disputes, including negotiation of value-based and other managed care contracts, disputes between payors and providers, regulatory and compliance counseling, and internal investigations. His clients include hospital systems, physician practices, pharmacies, third party payors, and rental networks.

In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Dr. Aric Coffman, joins host Eric Tower for a conversation about the road to value-based care, aligning incentives with goals to set health systems up for success, combating physician burnout by improving engagement, payer relationships and their role in value-based care, and managing relationships up and down the continuum of care.   Aric, a board-certified surgeon, is the CEO of Honest Medical Group—a Rubicon Founders company—whose vision is to transform the healthcare experience for people with Medicare by creating next generation delivery systems in partnership with doctors to empower patients and clinicians to reach their full potential in life and in clinical practice. Prior to Honest, Aric held market leadership roles for Optum Health and The Everett Clinic.

In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Dan Juberg joins host Eric Tower to discuss emerging healthcare technologies, innovation in the surgical and specialty care fields, and the driving forces behind them. Eric and Dan dive in to how to make surgery smarter and improve surgical outcomes for patients, providers, and payers using data-driven technology like artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics   Dan is SVP, Head of Payer/Provider Strategy & Corporate Development at Caresyntax, a market leader in surgical intelligence. Caresyntax converges AI-powered software, devices, and clinical services to improve surgical outcomes and make surgery smarter and safer for both patients and providers. Dan is passionate about fulfilling the promise of integrated, value-based specialty and surgical care. Prior to joining Caresyntax, Dan served in leadership roles at Lumeris and GE Healthcare Camden Group. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

In this episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Josh M. Berlin, JD, joins host Eric Tower to talk about five key areas to watch in the healthcare industry today: (1) the refresh in the delivery model of care, (2) moving into Medicare Advantage, (3) disruption through the lens of the new “Big 4” in healthcare, (4) private equity dollars and how they are innovating and disrupting, and (5) employers becoming more emboldened to push providers and plans to improve quality and outcomes for their employee populations. Eric and Josh also discuss diversification and properly structuring risk in partnership agreements.   Josh brings more than 25 years of experience to his role as the chief executive officer of rule of three® (ro3). Josh’s experience as a healthcare adviser spans the entire healthcare ecosystem and includes strategic planning, regulatory affairs, value-based care, population health management, and clinical integration. Prior to starting ro3, Josh served in leadership roles across KPMG, IBM Watson Health, Dixon Hughes Goodman, and Citrin Cooperman.    

In the inaugural episode of BRight Minds in Healthcare Delivery, Dr. Soujanya “Chinni” Pulluru joins host Eric Tower to discuss disruptions in healthcare, the move toward value-based care, the importance of technology and data infrastructure, traction in retail health, creating better access to care, and incentivizing changed behavior in the industry.      Dr. Chinni Pulluru is a family medicine physician and clinical business executive with more than 20 years of experience driving transformative change in healthcare and value-based care operations. She most recently served as Chief Clinical Executive and Vice President of Clinical Operations for Walmart Health, and was formerly the Executive Medical Director for Illinois’ largest, 750-physician group, DULY (formerly DuPage Medical Group) and its subsidiary MSO, Boncura Health Solutions. She is now a founder-entrepreneur with a newly launched venture in the field of genetics.