KC QVIC: Reducing Readmissions for Value-Based Care

3:00-3:10 pm: Welcome & Overview of Quality & Value Innovation Consortium (QVIC) Activities

–John Spertus, MD, MPH; KC Quality & Value Innovation Consortium (KC QVIC); University of Missouri Kansas City; Saint Luke’s Health System (SLHS)

3:10-3:25 pm: Payer Perspective: Innovative bundles and value-based care payments

– Tony Sun, MD, Regional CMO & Senior Medical Director at UnitedHealthcare

3:25-3:40 pm: Policy Perspective: How new payment models could help reduce readmissions

-Karen E. Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine; Associate Program Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Cardiovascular Fellowship Program; Co-Director, Center for Health Economics and Policy, Institute for Public Health at Washington University

3:40-3:55 pm: Healthcare Perspective: Instant Replay of the Multi-Visit Patient (MVP) GamePlan

-Colleen Booz Dittrich, LMSW, ACM, CCM-SW, Director, Continuum of Care, The University of Kansas Health System

3:55-4:10 pm: Research Perspective: Post Hospital Syndrome: Is the Hospital Experience the Key to Readmission Risk?

– Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, of Investigative Medicine and of Public Health (Health Policy); Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)

4:10-4:30 pm Questions & Discussion 

–Christina M. Pacheco, JD, MPH; Implementation Manager, KC Quality and Value Innovation Consortium