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Physician-Hospital Incentive Alignment Options Including Gainsharing:  Proof Points to Why It’s Gaining Acceptance

Speaker: Joane Goodroe, Founder of Goodroe Healthcare Solution, a VHA Company, and Senior Vice President of Innovation at VHA
Moderator: Michelle Robbins, CMRP, Senior Consultant, OMSolutions 

Overview: Physicians control 85 percent of hospital costs in specialty service lines. That’s why hospital efforts to reduce waste through increased productivity and standardization can only reduce costs so much.  True cost savings can only be realized by achieving physician buy-in. Providing physician-level data and national benchmarks is one way to facilitate improvements. But hospitals must also maintain physician choice and preserve clinical outcomes.  Demonstration projects by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid in acute care episodes, bundled payments, and physician-hospital collaboration provide evidence toward new solutions. Gainsharing has also experienced increased acceptance. In this presentation, Joane will reveal hospital-physician alignment options and the results of peer-reviewed research on gainsharing’s impact on costs, hospital-physician alignment, patient outcomes and access to new technologies.

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This program was recorded October 7, 2009.

 

Speaker Bio

Joane H. Goodroe
Joane H. Goodroe is credited with helping to change the landscape of the health care industry by developing innovative solutions that allow hospitals to reap long-term rewards. Her goal has always been to empower those who are on the front line of delivering patient care and provide them with the tools to improve clinical quality and reduce costs.

Joane’s groundbreaking work led to creating a gainsharing model that is the first and only one approved by the United States Office of Inspector General (OIG). Since this landmark decision in 2001, she has since been instrumental in securing 10 additional approvals for gainsharing programs in hospitals throughout the United States. Her testimony at a Congressional hearing on gainsharing was helpful to the continued acceptance of gainsharing.

It is because of Joane’s innovative approach to solving health challenges that led to Joane’s current role in VHA as Senior Vice President of Innovation. In this role Joane continues to influence monumental change efforts for healthcare, specifically developing innovative decisioning resources for healthcare executives.

Joane is a sought-after speaker and subject-matter expert and has published and guest-authored numerous articles on topics related to hospital-physician economic alignment programs, clinical patient care and product line development. In 2007, Healthcare Purchasing News named Joane as a supply chain influencer to watch.

Prior to forming Goodroe Healthcare Solutions, Joane was the Vice President of Cardiovascular Services and Director of The Heart Institute at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that she worked in several key roles in cardiovascular medicine at Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Emory University Hospital. She received a bachelor of science in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia and a master's degree in business administration from Mercer University.