In August 2020, the Virginia Center for Health Innovation (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.
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
Core Task Force Members
Sandy Chung, MD, Co-Chair | Fairfax Pediatrics Associates, Immediate Past President- AAP, Virginia Chapter; President-Elect, American Academy of Pediatrics
Jeff Ricketts, Co-Chair | President, Anthem Virginia
Heather Anderson | Division Director, Primary Care and Rural Health, VDH
Julie Bilodeau, MBA | CEO, CrossOver Healthcare Ministry
John Brady, MD | TPMG, Newport News, Immediate Past Chair – American Board of Family Medicine
Suzanne Brixey, MD | Executive Director, Fortify Children’s Health
Senator Siobhan Dunnavant, MD | Republican, District 12; OBGYN
Charles Frazier, MD | Senior Vice President and CMIIO, Riverside Health System
HoChong Gilles, NP | McGuire Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Immediate Past-Pres Va Council of NPs
Ann Harbour | Virginia Director, Government Affairs, CareFirst
Bryan Haynes | CEO, Southwest Virginia Community Health System
Stuart Henochowicz, MD, MBA, FACP | Internal Medicine and Allergy Associates; Governor ACP, Virginia Chapter
Cornel Hubbard, JD, CCEP | VP and General Manager, Magellan of Virginia
Gary Johnston | Director, Health Benefits Services, DHRM
Russell Libby, MD | President, Virginia Pediatric Group
Sec. John Littel | Secretary Health and Human Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia
Jerry Mammano | Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Better Health of Virginia
Melissa Mannon | Senior Policy Manager, Office of Value Based Purchasing
Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services
Gordon Moore, MD | Chief Medical Officer, Goodside Health
Katherine Neuhausen, MD, MPH | CMO, UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchanges
Sara Nicely, PA | Chair & Program Director, Radford University & President Virginia Academy of Physician Assistants
Theresa Noe | VP Strategic Innovations and Partnerships, Patient First
Katie Nunn, MBA, CMPE | Owner, Bright Ideas Medical Consulting
Deborah D. Oswalt | Executive Director, Virginia Health Care Foundation
Mike Pasterick | Senior Vice President and Health Solutions Leader, Aon
Jennie Reynolds | Plan President, Virginia Medicaid, Anthem Virginia
Delegate Mark Sickles | Democrat, 43rd District
Christina Stasiuk, DO | Mid-Atlantic Market Medical Executive, Cigna, Mid-Atlantic
Meredith Touchstone | Director, Benefits, Carmax
JP Verderese, MD | Health & Public Policy Chair, ACP, VA Chapter
Lisa Woods | VP Physical and Emotional Wellbeing, Walmart
Committees
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