Decoding Healthcare

Putting pop health into practice: Making it work

Episode Summary

Closing out with a peek into building an ACO and a retrospective look at season one through our "snow globe".

Episode Notes

Building an ACO is a multilayered challenge — but it can be done. Kevin Hoppe, Chief Operating Officer of the Lahey Clinical Performance ACO, talks about the trial-and-error process his organization went through as it developed a clinically integrated network, from figuring out the right physician incentives to putting operational structures in place.

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