The ACO Show

Jessica Gladden, Aledade’s Vice President of People, Strategies and Operations, joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) to talk about how Aledade builds a culture where employees feel supported and appreciated. She shares her thoughts on the importance of maintaining company connectivity and community, promoting mission-driven work, and meaningfully promoting diversity and inclusion.

Aledade’s Director of Transitions of Care, Dr. Kim Hodge, joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) to talk about Transitional Care Management (TCM) visits and the challenge of providing consistent care to patients as they move through different levels of care in a health system. She covers how to conduct an effective TCM visit and what Aledade is doing to encourage and support this work for vulnerable patient popu...

Dr. Kisha Davis (@kishadavismd) is a family physician and a Regional Medical Director at Aledade. She joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) to discuss her experience as a Black doctor, confronting implicit bias in medicine, and responding to this moment. Dr. Emily Maxson is Aledade’s Chief Medical Officer. In the second part of the episode, she talks about how relying solely on data can...

Dr. Darrin Menard is the physician owner of Scott Family Physicians, an independent primary care practice in Scott, Louisiana. Dr. Menard joins Josh (@ DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) to share some of the challenges of being an independent primary care physician and what it has been like to be a part of an Accountable Care Organization. They discuss two-sided risk contracts and how and why the...

Dr. Alisahah Cole @AlisahahMD is the Chief Community Impact Officer at Atrium Health (formally known as Carolinas HealthCare System), an integrated healthcare system based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) to talk about how health systems can help tackle Social Determinants of Health including; food insecurity, housing and financial stability, and h...

On this special episode of the ACO Show, Aledade's CEO Dr. Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) speaks with Tom Banning, CEO of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians. They discuss critical issues in primary care including value based care and the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about what needs to happen to preserve independent primary care practices and ensure they are financially s...

Dr. Jen Aloff (@Jen_Aloff), a family practitioner at Midland Family Physicians in Michigan, joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) to talk about her practices’ journey from “checkbox medicine” to true value-based care and her decision to join an ACO. She also discusses how Aledade’s data platform, known as the “Aledade App” helps her proactively identify patients who will benefit from preventive health care, rat...

Stephanie Gallup, Senior Director of Implementation at Aledade, sits down with Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) to discuss how she sets primary care practices up to succeed in value-based care. Not only does her team introduce practices to new technology and data tools, but they also help them navigate a major culture change. Tune in to hear Stephanie talk about what makes Aledade stand...

Dr. Amol Navathe (@AmolNavathe), physician and health economist, speaks with Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) on the ACO Show. Dr. Navathe serves as the Co-Director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the cofounder of Embedded Healthcare. He explains the role that behavioral economics can play in improving...

Sanjay Doddamani (@DrDoddamani) is the Chief physician executive and Chief Operating Officer for Southwestern Health Resources, a clinically integrated network of over 5,000 academic, community, and independent primary care and specialty physicians in the Dallas area. He joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) to talk about the evolution of different financial models of health care during his career and how value...

Emily Barson (@ebarson) is the Executive Director of United States of Care (@USofCare), a non-partisan organization working to ensure that every American has access to high-quality, affordable health care. She speaks with Josh (@DrJIsrael) about how COVID-19 has exposed the gaps in our health care system and why expanding access to care is more critical than ever. She explains that the nation may...

Ahmed Haque (@aehaque), Aledade’s SVP of Network Performance & Strategy, returns to the show to talk to Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) about what ACO performance means in relation to quality, utilization and cost. Ahmed covers how value-based contracts enable the best health outcomes for patients and sustainable revenue for physicians, and the impact of COVID-19 on Aledade’s goals and its potential to impro...

Dr. Mark Martindale, a primary care physician at Saline Med-Peds in Benton, Arkansas, talks with Josh (@DrIsrael) about how he changed his clinic to adapt to COVID-19. From setting up telemedicine and drive-through visits to keeping himself and his staff healthy, Dr. Martindale shares tips for how other practices can implement these changes.

On this episode of the ACO Show, we meet Mike Morgan (@mwmorgan), CEO of Updox, a telehealth platform. He joins Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) to talk about how Updox enables patients to connect with their health care providers by video and text messaging, and why this has become critically important during the COVID-19 epidemic. Aledade has just partnered with Updox to provide over 500+ partner physicians...

Dr. Josh Lowentritt (@LowentrittMd), CEO of Louisiana Physicians speaks with Josh (@DrIsrael) about the toll COVID-19 cases are taking on New Orleans and the effects on providers’ safety, financial stability and personal well-being. It’s “as if the H1N1 flu outbreak came in on the Katrina recovery but there’s no Tamiflu. It’s a disaster with no treatment.”  

Dr. Daren Anderson is the Director of ConferMED, a program that provides specialist consultations to primary care providers. He is also Director of the Weitzman Institute, an innovation center dedicated to improving primary care for underserved populations and the VP and Chief Quality Officer of Community Health Center, Inc. Dr. Anderson speaks with Josh (@DrJIsrael) about how these programs suppo...

On today’s episode, Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) speaks with Dr. Randy Walker and Angie Walker of the Walker Family Clinic in De Queen, Arkansas. They describe how they were able to expand staffing and operating hours at their independent primary care clinic to enable more patients to receive the care they need—and how this has prepared them for the COVID-19 outbreak they are facing right now. They also d...

Travis Broome @Travis_Broome, Vice President of Policy at Aledade, discusses some of the steps CMS has taken to make care safer and more accessible for Medicare patients during the COVID-19 outbreak, including allowing widespread use of telehealth by medical providers, and how this has the potential to improve the way health care is delivered for years to come.

Sean Cavanaugh (@dc_cavanaugh), former Director of the Center for Medicare at CMS, joins Josh (@DrJIsrael) to provide an ACO policy update. He discusses an important new CMS rule that requires hospitals to notify physicians when their patients have been hospitalized and he explains why ACOs can still succeed financially and continue to provide necessary primary care services during the COVID-19 ou...

On this special episode of The ACO Show, Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD), CEO of Aledade, joins Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) and Josh (@DrJIsrael) to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Mostashari brings his experience in epidemic surveillance to talk about what we can all do to slow the spread of coronavirus and what Aledade is doing to help primary care practices on the front lines care for their patie...

Emily Brower is the Senior Vice President of Clinical Integration and Physician Services at Trinity Health in Michigan, a health system that includes both accountable care organizations and hospitals. In this week’s episode of the ACO Show, she spoke with Joe and Josh about how clinically integrated networks can enter into ACO contracts and engage in preventive health initiatives, and how a hospit...

Dr. Alan Story is a family physician practicing in Newton, North Carolina. In this week’s episode, he describes how his clinic, Newton Family Physicians has evolved over time to embrace a data-driven, population health approach to primary care. He also explains how Aledade helps independent providers like himself succeed under the ACO model by investing in their patients’ health, harnessing the po...

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) speak to Connie Altman, an implementation and training expert at Aledade. Drawing upon her background in practice management, billing and coding, she shares great advice on how primary care practices can provide the best patient experience and how team care can be the best care.

Chris Haeni discusses how he protects data as the Chief Information Security Officer at Aledade. Join us to hear how to avoid the biggest health data security threats, from phishing to spoofing to hacking, and the risks of carelessness and improper data sharing within an organization.

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Joe (@JoeShonkwiler) speak to Dr. Danny Butler (@DannyB1984), a primary care physician from Paducah, Kentucky in the Aledade Kentucky ACO. Combining data and his dedication to his patients, Dr. Butler shares his experience of how an Accountable Care Organization has been good for the health of his patients and the success of his practice. He discusses why he joined an ACO and...