Betsey Rhynhart, Executive Director, New Hampshire Accountable Care Partners

Today’s guest is Betsey Rhynhart, the Executive Director of New Hampshire Accountable Care Partners, an Accountable Care Organization or ACO headquartered at Concord Hospital in Concord New Hampshire. New Hampshire Accountable Care Partners was formed as a partnership between four community health systems in Southern New Hampshire: Concord Hospital, The Elliot Health System, Southern New Hampshire Health System, and Wentworth-Douglas Health System. In this podcast Betsey talks about her career, and how her education in public health and her background in insurance and strategy merge in her current role leading the ACO’s efforts. She talks about how the ACO is a learning organization that is helping the participating partners move toward a strategy of providing value-based care, a recurring theme we have been hearing from a number of leaders in recent interviews. Betsey provides an inside view of how the ACO was formed, how it operates, what the organization’s goals and objectives are, and what the participating organizations hope to gain from their collaboration. Betsey’s career and current role are great examples of how public health and direct care are beginning to merge as direct care delivery systems become more involved in population health models.

Links to the Podcast:

Soundcloud

        Unabridged: https://soundcloud.com/healthleaderforge/betsey-rhynhart-executive-director-new-hampshire-accountable-care-partners

        Abrdiged: https://soundcloud.com/healthleaderforge/abridged-betsey-rhynhart-executive-director-new-hampshire-accountable-care-partners

Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-health-leader-forge

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/healthleaderforge/id981989377

Podcast Outline

Time		Topic
0:02:00		Education and early career
0:17:50		Concord Hospital
0:21:02		Executive Director of Accountable Care
0:24:28		About the ACA, the Triple Aim, and the Triple Problem
0:37:04		New Hampshire Accountable Care Partners
0:41:15		Establishing the ACO
0:45:25		The broad strategy of moving to value
0:53:07		Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) Act of 2015
0:57:16		How are beneficiaries assigned to an ACO?
1:01:31		Primary Care in an ACO Medical Home
1:04:15		Generating shared savings
1:14:05		Listening to the data - the importance of analytics
1:22:17		Shared learning, sharing best practices
1:25:24		Sharing the shared savings, evolving to achieve success
1:30:44		Leadership, mentorship, and advice to early careerists

Links to Topics Discussed:

Concord Hospital

New Hampshire Accountable Care Partners

CMS on Accountable Care Organizations

Medicare and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA)

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps

Boston University's Masters of Public Health

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

American's Association of Health Plans (AHIP)

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