| With the recent announcement of 500 provider organizations selected to participate in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, believed to be the largest demonstration project ever run by CMS, both payer and provider interest in the adoption of payment bundling is at an all-time high.
Listen to pre-conference comments from Jay Sultan.
Moving Forward with Payment Bundling, a 45-minute webinar on March 13, 2013, now available for replay, features Jay Sultan, associate vice president and chief product portfolio architect for TriZetto®. Sultan provides perspectives on the emerging bundled payment trend, including:
- An overview of payment bundling rationale, trends, and outcomes. Why does payment bundling work? What is the evidence that it works?;
- Specific administrative and organizational challenges created with bundled payment programs for healthcare payers, such as contracting challenges, processing claims and payments under payment bundling, and problems with product design and member responsibility; and
- Address provider issues with bundled payments, including the importance of clinical transformation, forms of organization among providers delivering an episode of care, and administrative requirements around payment and incentive processing.
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WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS CONFERENCE?
CEOs, medical directors, physician practice leaders, business development and strategic planning directors and consultants.
ABOUT OUR PANELIST:
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Payment bundling is one of the few policy alternatives available to healthcare that offers wins for payors, providers and patients alike.
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Jay Sultan is the associate vice president and product manager for value-based reimbursement at
TriZetto®. With more than 12 years of consulting and development experience in the payer and hospital settings, Sultan is responsible for developing innovative solutions such as payment bundling and other forms of value-based reimbursement. He is also providing leadership on the adoption of clinical analytics into TriZetto solutions.
Previously, as a principal of Healthcare Transformations, he was the architect and principal author of two payment-bundling programs that were chosen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as Acute Care Episode demonstration project sites. Sultan is a thought leader on payment reform; when serving as the chief operating officer of MedAlign, he developed a number of innovative payment reform programs, including episodic provider payment. He is the author of two patents related to episode of care payment. He is also an expert in healthcare analytics. Sultan received a master’s degree in international economics/policy from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and political science from the University of Georgia. |
