Brian Gragnolati

Value analysis is transforming partnerships between health systems and suppliers in health care. In a recent article from The Journal Of Healthcare Contracting, insights from the IDN Insights West panel featuring Cheryl Smith Anderson, DNP, MBA, RN, BSN, system director of Value Analysis at Steward Health Care, and Jimmy Chung, MD, MBA, FACS, FABQAURP, CPE, CMRP, chief medical officer at Advantus Health Partners, sheds light on the pivotal role of value analysis. Cheryl and Dr. Chung discuss their approaches to value analysis and the key components of successful partnerships. From prioritizing patient care outcomes to fostering transparent communication, their insights show the importance of collaboration in driving value for both healthcare organizations and their patients. Read more about how strategic partnerships in value analysis are reshaping the healthcare supply chain landscape: https://lnkd.in/gB7NgJF3

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The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives (CTAHE) aspiring fellows consider registering for this complimentary and informative session on the American College of Healthcare Executives FACHE overview! #FACHE

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🌟 Boosting Healthcare Quality: A Synergistic Partnership The New England Association for Healthcare Quality and the Multi-state Quality Collective have forged an impactful alliance, elevating the effectiveness of the group. 🔍 Why This Collaboration Matters: Expertise Amplification: By pooling our collective knowledge and experience, we’ve created a dynamic ecosystem for improving health equity and quality. 📚 Cross-State Insights: The Multi-state Quality Collective brings diverse perspectives from various regions, enriching our discussions and strategies. 🌎 Shared Best Practices: We’re not just sharing ideas but implementing evidence-based practices that drive tangible results. 💡 🚀 Key Achievements: Collaborative Learning Sessions: Regular webinars and workshops facilitate knowledge exchange, fostering continuous improvement. 🎓 Advocacy and Policy Influence: Together, we’ve advocated for policies that prioritize patient safety and quality outcomes. 🗳️ 👥 Join the Movement: Are you passionate about healthcare quality? Join our community! Let’s continue to raise the bar, one collaboration at a time. 🌟 👉 Like, Share, and Comment: Spread the word! Let’s inspire others to embrace collaborative excellence. 🙌 #HealthcareQuality #CollaborationMatters #QualityImprovement

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🌟 Upcoming Live Webinar: Enhancing Dialysis Facility Preparedness 🌟 🗓️ Date: June 25 ⏰ Time: 2 PM ET Join me, Kristi Wells, RN from Greenfield Health System, for an essential webinar explicitly designed for nurse leaders in the dialysis industry. Here's why you should attend: 🔍 Insightful Learnings: Gain firsthand insights into state surveyors' crucial findings and perspectives. Understand what they look for during evaluations and how this impacts facility operations. 📈 Improve Facility Readiness: Learn about the latest trends and focus areas identified by surveyors. This knowledge will help enhance your facility's preparedness and compliance, ensuring you meet and exceed regulatory standards. 💡 Actionable Strategies: I'll share key strategies and best practices to prepare your facility for upcoming surveys, helping you avoid common pitfalls and enhance patient care. 🎓 Earn CE Credits: Earn 1.00 Continuing Education credit by attending this webinar and completing the required post-test and evaluation. This webinar is not just a learning opportunity—it's a chance to improve your facility's operations and patient outcomes directly. Stay ahead of the curve by understanding the latest surveyor expectations and industry standards! Register Here: https://lnkd.in/eBpmNXbw ✨ Don't miss out on this chance to elevate your professional practice and facility standards! ✨ #DialysisCare #NurseLeaders #HealthcareWebinar #DialysisPreparedness #StateSurveyors #ContinuingEducation #NursingEducation #DialysisNursing #HealthSystem #PatientCareExcellence

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Are you ready to stay the course, even when the finish line keeps moving? I want to share a story about a journey that took nearly two decades to complete. I represented a group of New York hospitals facing a complex Medicare payment issue. Our strategy required us to pivot between regulatory and legislative avenues multiple times, highlighting the importance of adaptability in any long-term plan. It took: ✅Patience ✅Tenacity ✅And unwavering confidence In our evolving strategy to ultimately succeed after 20 years. Remember, real change takes time. But with a resilient mindset, you can navigate any challenge and achieve your objectives. Stay confident and adaptable in your pursuits! #PersistencePays #LeadershipLessons #StrategicPlanning #AdaptAndOvercome

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🚫 Myth: Non-recourse financing is the superior choice for healthcare providers and patients. ✅ Unlock the truth. Our latest video unravels the complexities of recourse vs. non-recourse financing and reveals why recourse financing can be the ultimate strategy for enhancing patient care and ensuring provider financial health. Watch now below!

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Mark your calendars! The 2024 Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) Value Analysis Week is just around the corner. Join us from July 15-19 as we gather healthcare professionals from around the world to explore the latest advancements and strategies in value analysis. Don't miss out! To learn more: https://lnkd.in/eJZSWUVa. #AHVAP2024ValueAnalysisWeek #HealthcareValueAnalysis #HealthcareEvent

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More in the world of #340B shenanigans. Hospitals claim that if they lose their massive 340B subsidies, they will be forced to cut services to the poor... Well, it turns out that the only hospitals which actually expand services to the poor with 340B funds are public hospitals. Private, nonprofit hospitals show no increase in unprofitable services aimed at the poor (substance abuse, psychiatric and obstetrical services) with 340B participation. Why does this huge financial subsidy go to the institutions and not follow the patients? This strange quirk in the law makes it so large, consolidated health systems can use 340B to pad their revenue without increasing services for the poor. They instead use the proceeds to increase their market share and drive independent practices out of business. Don't fall for the argument that they'd have to cut services. They haven't used the 340B funds to increase them in the first place! Larry Bucshon, M.D. Deborah Williams Lisa Grabert Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS Cheerag Upadhyaya, MD, MBA, MSc, FAANS, FACS Michael Wang Joanne Spetz Adam Fein Sanat Dixit MD, MBA, FACS John Paul Kolcun https://lnkd.in/ga54etMy

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Calling all eligible The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives (CTAHE) members on the journey to become a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives consider registering for FACHE Overview Webinar June 13, 2024 1 –2 p.m. Central time Whether you’ve determined now is the time for you to begin the process toward FACHE or you’re still deciding, the next stop on your journey is our FACHE Overview Webinar. #FACHE #BOGExam #regentlife

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Important work from Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP). Our health system must adopt financial incentives that prioritize primary care and consumer directed technologies that ultimately empower people to make informed decisions about their health and wellness. While hospitals play an important role in healthcare, we must transition away from sick care and invest in primary care, as well as services that advance health, wellness and lower the cost of care. #health #primarycare #healthnotsickcare #healthcare #wellness #affordability #lowercosts

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An Outpatient Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program offers substantial advantages to healthcare organizations by elevating patient care and operational efficiency. By integrating risk stratification with chronic conditions, enhancing quality measures, addressing social determinants of health, and establishing a collaborative team empowered by technology, such strategic initiatives result in improved patient outcomes and streamlined operations.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced the first states to participate in their new #PopulationHealth-focused payment model. The States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model is a voluntary, state total cost of care (TCOC) model designed to address population health in specific regions, reduce health disparities and lower #healthcare costs. States participating in this model will be responsible for the quality, coordination and cost of healthcare while receiving funding and additional tools to address current payment and equity challenges in their state. 💡 My thoughts: It's exciting to see how we continue evolving our thinking around value and innovation, looking across payers, states and state agencies to push some of these practices forward. Not only that, but the timeline of these models has also been extended from 3 years to 10 years – allowing us a longer period to gather more comprehensive learnings and understand if these interventions are having a true impact. Efforts like these help us more accurately assess if the current work we’re doing is making a difference. I look forward to following the development of this model and seeing how it plays out with the first cohort (Maryland and Vermont) in 2026! 

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If you build it, will they come? I’ve heard countless organizations - #MA plans, #Medicaid plans, risk-bearing providers, vendors, PBMs, and retail players - say “we need to build the capabilities to XX”. Many are looking to vendors for solutions, but few vendors are ready to invest in new capabilities without contracts.  Anyone else sensing this (problematic) new conundrum? Here’s my quick take and a few ideas to break through this barrier. Many sales meetings are often held with functional departments, and often do not include the #MedicareAdvantage #StarRatings, #RiskAdjustment, #HEDIS, IT or P&L owners. We must collaborate to get those departments’ urgent needs integrated into new vendor purchases in order for new activities to meet new and emerging needs, remembering that: 🌟 Vendors are vital to your success.  🌟 Vendors operate in a more volatile environment than plans. 🌟 Vendors have smaller budgets than plans. 🌟 Vendors need signed contracts to make significant investments.   🌟 Vague RFPs waste vendors’ time and resources. Collaboration creates win-win contracts which expand capabilities of both parties. I encourage plans to: ✅ Ask vendors about their roadmap; including timing and certainty of planned enhancements. ✅ Include the #Stars, Risk Adjustment and #PartD teams in new vendor discussions. ✅ Consider adding a vendor's roadmap capabilities to contracts. ✅ Co-create with trustworthy vendors. I encourage vendors to: ✔ Ask about the customer’s unmet needs. ✔ Offer to co-create solutions to new and emerging needs with willing customers. ✔ Offer to accelerate roadmap capabilities with willing customers.   ✔ Articulate the things you would be willing to do if a customer would be willing to contract for it. This is a #MarketMakingMoment as #CMS has thrown down the gauntlet with #NewNeedsOfStars and #NewNeedsOfMA. This is a stellar time for vendors to review current and planned capabilities with a broader lens on new and emerging MA, #Compliance, Stars, #ECDS, #Interoperability, #HealthEquity, Medicaid & #SNP Aligment, and Risk Adjustment needs. If you need help, reach out to us.  #WhatGotYouHereWontGetYouThere  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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Are you confident your Facility Assessment will meet the standards starting 8/8/24? 🌟 Join Maureen McCarthy's session with CAHCF on 7/30 to discover effective strategies for conducting a thorough Facility Assessment in line with new regulations. 📅✨ Let Celtic Consulting support your team to stay ahead of these upcoming changes!💼✅ Reach out today and let’s explore how we can assist you. 🤝 #Healthcare #FacilityAssessment #Compliance #CMS #HealthcareLeadership #CAHCF #Strategy #ClinicalOperations

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We are receiving a lot of great feedback on the new "Pediatrics by PRG" module in the Pinson & Tang CDI Pocket Guide, which is the preeminent resource in the CDI space. If you haven't checked it out yet, take a look at the detailed review of over 40 topics that provide guidance to CDI specialists, coders, & clinicians on pediatric and neonatal conditions. This partnership is a key element of how Pediatric Resource Group (PRG) can help hospitals understand the CDI opportunity in the peds/neonatal space and tackle it confidently. If there are other topics you'd like to see, let us know, we can develop and publish those quickly. #CDI #pediatrics #Clinicaldocumentation

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If you have started a new GME program in the last seven years you should reciew these and comment.

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Sullivan senior consultant Shawn Craddock, DNP, RN, CNOR, NE-BC, discusses procedural sedation and analgesia considerations for ASC leaders and the effect on patients in this article from OR Manager. Hear from Shawn about balancing anesthesia practices based on therapeutic effects, patient safety, practitioners' skills and credentials, and cost-effectiveness. Read more from OR Manager here.

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