Crystal Run Healthcare Hosts Inaugural New York Regional Accountable Care Organization Summit

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y., Oct. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- On October 13-14, 2014, Crystal Run Healthcare hosted its inaugural New York Regional Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Summit. The Summit was designed to help new and prospective ACOs learn from the experience of regional ACO leaders. The event engaged more than 125 physicians and healthcare executives from throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut for a two-day discussion of strategies, informed by the experience of ACO pioneers, including Crystal Run Healthcare.

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The audience of professionals, leaders, and decision-makers included representatives of leading regional health care organizations, insurance providers, vendors, community organizations, healthcare policy organizations, legislators, congress and media.

Crystal Run Managing Partner & CEO Hal Teitelbaum, MD, JD, MBA, kicked off the Summit with a plenary session. Better Health: The Transformation Imperative outlined Crystal Run's journey to becoming an ACO. Crystal Run's early adoption of electronic health records and the philosophy of value-based care allowed it to become a leader among ACOs.

Breakout sessions provided attendees with tips and tools necessary to succeed in an ever-changing and complex healthcare environment. Sessions included:

Ready, Triple Aim, Align: Using the Triple Aim to Align Providers and Transform Care

Speakers: Jonathan Nasser, MD and Scott Hines, MD

There's No Place Like Home: Care Management, Transitional Care, and Medical Neighborhoods

Speakers: Betty Jessup, RN, BSN and Helen Portalatin, RN, MSN, FNP-C

How Can Joint Commission, Patient Centered Medical Home, and NCQA ACO Accreditation Transform Your Practice Into an ACO and MSO?

Speakers:Hal Teitelbaum, MD, JD, MBA and Michelle A. Koury, MD

Building The Necessary Technological Infrastructure to Succeed as an ACO

Speaker:Gregory Spencer, MD, FACP

Day one concluded with remarks by Jeremy Boal, MD, EVP, and Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System: A Health System's Perspective on Accountable Care – The Mt. Sinai Experience.

The summit's second day focused on the regulatory, legal, and financial aspects of running a successful ACO. Sessions included:

Variation Reduction:  A Process to Improve Quality, Engage Physicians, Improve Access, and Reduce Cost

Speakers:Scott Hines, MD and Jonathan Nasser, MD

How to Successfully Negotiate Risk Based Contracts with Commercial Payers and Achieve Value

Speakers:Douglas Sansted and Gregory Spencer, MD, FACP

Building a Value Based Compensation Model

Speakers:Hal Teitelbaum, MD, JD, MBA and Scott Hines, MD

Physician Engagement: The First Step in Building a Successful ACO

Speakers: Michelle A. Koury, MDand Jonathan Nasser, MD

The summit concluded with a panel session with leaders from a cross-section of healthcare, government, and policy organizations. The session outlined state and local issues and legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.

Panel speakers included: Courtney Burke, Deputy Secretary for Health for New York State, Kavita Patel, MD, Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery at the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform at the Brookings Institution and Robert D. Belfort, Partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

About Crystal Run Healthcare:Crystal Run Healthcare is a premier multispecialty group practice with more than 300 providers in more than 40 medical specialties and more than 20 practice locations in the Hudson Valley and lower Catskill region. Crystal Run has a strong commitment to primary care, employing an outstanding group of physicians in the specialties of Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Family Practice, Geriatrics and Pediatrics. The practice also includes unsurpassed sub-specialists in a wide variety of medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties.

In addition to accreditation by The Joint Commission, Crystal Run is designated by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a Level 3 Patient Centered-Medical Home. The practice is among the first 27 health care organizations in the nation to participate as an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Crystal Run Healthcare achieved NCQA Level 2 ACO Accreditation in 2012, becoming the first health care organization to be so designated in New York State and among the first six in the United States.

Leveraging its ACO experience, Crystal Run has entered into value-based care/shared savings arrangements with numerous commercial payers and a Medicaid Managed Care organization. As a result, contracts that reward Crystal Run for health outcomes now cover approximately 50 percent of the group's attributed primary care patients. Crystal Run has demonstrated its ability to manage population health, improving quality while simultaneously lowering per capita cost for the patients it serves.

Crystal Run Healthcare and Mount Sinai Health System recently established the Mount Sinai-Crystal Run Alliance for Healthcare Transformation, a groundbreaking partnership to share and implement best practices, invest and share financial and intellectual resources, strengthen provider networks, and employ innovative approaches to the creation of health care value—all in furtherance of the "Triple Aim" of Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Cost.

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Media Contact:Mark Trocino, PCI, 845-615-6832, mtrocino@pcicom.com

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