Collaboration with providers is a surefire way for payers to ensure success in the post-reform healthcare marketplace. A strong payer-provider partnership is the key to improving quality, boosting member engagement and improving care and outcomes. It's not an easy task, but to keep members healthy and costs down, payers must form relationships with providers that are based on open communication, clear standards and trust.

Join this one hour webinar to learn how two of the nation’s largest healthcare payers are collaborating with providers to drive down costs and improve outcomes. Dr. Dick Salmon, who oversees Cigna's national performance improvement initiatives, will describe how Cigna collaborates with providers to achieve positive health outcomes. And Julie Schilz, WellPoint's director of patient-centered care, will share how her organization creates a direct link between reimbursement and quality.
 

Specific topics of discussion will include:

• The specific benchmarks Cigna uses to reward quality improvement
• How Cigna builds collaborative care programs that outperform in several markets, reducing readmission rates and avoidable ED visits
• WellPoint's system for rewarding doctors who achieve patient outcome targets
• The tactics WellPoint used to attract 18,000 new physicians to its network within a few short months and how it maintains those relationships

Speakers:

Julie Schilz, BSN, MBA Director of Care Delivery Transformation, WellPoint Julie's experience collaborating with healthcare organizations and industry stakeholders drives her expertise in care management, quality office system redesign programs, and value based reimbursement programs.

Dick Salmon, M.D., Ph.D. Vice President and National Medical Executive, Performance Management and Improvement, Cigna Dr. Salmon oversees a broad range of corporate initiatives, including the evaluation of physician and hospital quality and cost efficiency, pay-for-performance programs, accreditation, population health improvement, credentialing, and the company’s collaborative accountable care programs.

Christopher Mathews, MD Senior Vice President and CMO, ZeOmega Dr. Christopher Mathews, MD joined ZeOmega in 2012 as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, and serves on the Board of Directors. He is a board certified internal medicine physician and physician executive with over 25 years experience in health care delivery systems and managed care.