Virginia Task Force on Primary Care

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DEFINITION OF SUCCESS:

  • Clinicians and payers establish a better relationship in order to partner in seeking better health and lower costs for Virginians
  • Primary care services are accessible, integrated, equitable, convenient, and affordable for patients in all Virginia communities
  • Virginia promotes a positive primary care practice experience for clinicians, leading to retention and growth in the number of primary care providers
  • The viability of primary care practices is safeguarded, primary care payment is predictable and tied to meaningful performance measurement in order to advance better health care value, and primary care is less susceptible to changes in the economy
  • Positive primary care innovations, such as telehealth, adopted during the pandemic are maintained and advanced where needed

IN AUGUST 2020, VCHI LAUNCHED THE VIRGINIA TASK FORCE ON PRIMARY CARE TO:

  • Build a stakeholder coalition to direct primary care support and advance the use of data/communication systems for action;
  • Define payment models to better support primary care and support practice viability through systems that allow for predictability in financial support;
  • Describe the infrastructure needed to support primary care;
  • Identify markers of high value care in the COVID and post COVID era to function as quality metrics; and
  • Promote innovations in telehealth, population health management, and outreach to adapt to the changing COVID environment.

TASK FORCE MEMBERS

Sandy Chung, MD, Co-Chair

CEO, Trusted Doctors, Immediate Past President- AAP, Virginia Chapter; President, American Academy of Pediatrics

Monica Schmude, Co-Chair

President, Virginia, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

Chris Barker

Senior Director, Payer Relations & Value Based Care at Patient First

John Brady, MD

Newport News, Past Chair – American Board of Family Medicine

Suzanne Brixey, MD

Executive Director, Fortify Children’s Health

Laura Brooks, MD

General Pediatrician, F. Read Hopkins Pediatric Associates

Karen Elmore, MD

Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program Johnston Memorial Hospital | Ballad Health

Senator Barbara Favola

Democrat, 40th District

Charles Frazier, MD

Senior Vice President & CMIIO, Riverside Health System

Joel Gray

Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Better Health of Virginia

Linda Hines, RN, MSN, MBA

Virginia Medicaid Regional President, Humana

Delegate Keith Hodges

Republican, 68th District

Haroon Hyder, MD, MHCM

Medical Director for Primary Care Service Line and Population Health, Bon Secours Richmond

Gary Johnston

Director, Health Benefit Services, Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, Richmond

Janet Kelly

VA SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN RESOURCES

Robert Krebbs

Vice President, Network Management & Value Based Care at Sentara Health Plan

Jeff Lunardi

Chief Deputy Director, DMAS

Gordon Moore, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Goodside Health

Tayloe Negus, MBA

Managing Director, AON Richmond

Senator Todd Pillion

Republican, 6th District

Kenneth Qiu, MD

Founder, EuDoc Direct Primary Care

Zachary Rabovsky

Director, Population Health Strategy, CareFirst BCBS

Rachel Rees

Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Health Care Foundation

Taylor Rhodes

Regional Vice President – Market Development, Equality Health

Jenna Rolfs, PA

Dean, University of Lynchburg School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Virginia Academy of PAs

Karen Shelton, MD

Virginia State Health Commissioner

Delegate Mark Sickles

Democrat, 43rd District

Shelly Smith, DNP

Co-Director UVA Synergy Center

Marcus Stone

Chief Executive Officer, Connect Health + Wellness

Meredith Touchstone

Director, Benefits, Carmax, Richmond

Kevin Van Dyke, MPP

Executive Director, Virginia, Aledade

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