
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
Members
Jill Age | EVP Towne Insurance, Past President Virginia Association of Health Underwriters, Tidewater
Delegate Lashrecse Aird | Democrat, 63rd District, Chesterfield/Petersburg
Danny Avula, MD, MPH | Director, Richmond & Henrico Health Depts., VDH
Kevin Barger | Director Network Management, Anthem
Chris Barker | Director, Value-Based Care Contract Performance Management, Patient First
Samuel Bartle, MD, FAAP, FACEP | Emergency Medicine Pediatrics, VCU Health
Andrew Bazemore, MD | SVP Research and Policy, the American Board of Family Medicine and Co-Director, Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care
Eric Beyer | President, Privia Medical Group, Mid-Atlantic
Julie Bilodeau, MBA | CEO, CrossOver Healthcare Ministry
John Brady, MD | TPMG, Newport News, Immediate Past Chair – American Board of Family Medicine
Laura Brooks, MD | F. Read Hopkins Pediatric Associates
Michael Bucci | Market President, Aetna, Maryland, DC, and Virginia
Colette Chichester | VP, CareFirst, DC, and Past President, Virginia Association of Health Plans
Sandy Chung, MD, Co-Chair | Fairfax Pediatrics Associates, Immediate Past President- AAP, Virginia Chapter; President-Elect, American Academy of Pediatrics
Senator Siobhan Dunnavant, MD | Republican, District 12; OBGYN
Rebecca S. Etz, PhD | Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Co-Director of the Larry A. Green Center
Gerard Filicko, MHA, CMPE | Executive Director, Virginia Care Partners
Charles Frazier, MD | Senior Vice President and CMIIO, Riverside Health System
Vaishali Geib, MD | Mid-Atlantic Market Medical Executive, Cigna
Wina Giddens | Director, Benefits & HRIS, Port of Virginia
HoChong Gilles, NP | McGuire Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Immediate Past-Pres Va Council of NPs
Neeta Goel, MD | CMO, Ambulatory Services, Inova Health System
Vanessa Walker Harris, MD | Deputy Secretary Health and Human Resources
Bryan Haynes | CEO, Southwest Virginia Community Health System
Stuart Henochowicz, MD, MBA, FACP | Internal Medicine and Allergy Associates; Governor ACP, Virginia Chapter
Joe Hilbert | Deputy Commissioner, Governmental and Regulatory Affairs, VDH
Cornel Hubbard, JD, CCEP | VP and General Manager, Magellan of Virginia
Gary Johnston | Director, Health Benefits Services, DHRM
Anthony Keck | EVP for System Innovation & Chief Population Health Officer, Ballad Health
Alex Krist, MD, MPH | Family Physician & Primary Care Researcher, VCU, Inova; Immediate Past Chair, USPSTF
Russell Libby, MD | President, Virginia Pediatric Group
Jesus Lizarzaburu, MD | Legislative Chair, Virginia Academy of Family Physicians
Thomas Lundquist, MD | SVP and CMO, Optima
Daniel McCarter, MD | National Director of Primary Care Advancement, ChenMed
Moss Mendelson, MD | Medical Director, Sentara ACO, Information Technology Medical Director, Sentara Healthcare
Mitchell Miller, MD |, Owner Coastal Family Practice PC
Ellen Montz, PhD | Chief Deputy and Chief Health Economist, DMAS
Gordon Moore, MD | 3M Health Information Systems, Senior Medical Director, Clinical Strategy and Value-based Care
Holly Mortlock, MSE | Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources
Katherine Neuhausen, MD, MPH | CMO, UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchanges
Theresa Noe I VP Strategic Innovations and Partnerships, Patient First
Deborah D. Oswalt | Executive Director, Virginia Health Care Foundation
Mike Pasterick | Senior Vice President and Health Solutions Leader, Aon
Kristina Powell, MD | Pediatrician, Pediatric Associates of Williamsburg, CHKD
Jennie Reynolds | Plan President, Virginia Medicaid, Anthem Virginia
Beth Rhinehart | President & CEO, Bristol Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Ricketts, Co-Chair | President, Anthem Virginia
Nicole Riley | Virginia State Director, National Federation of Independent Businesses, Richmond
Joydip Roy, MD | Market CMO (D.C. MD, VA, WV), UnitedHealth
Kyle Russell, MSDA | Director of Strategy and Analytics, Virginia Health Information
Christina Stasiuk, DO | Mid-Atlantic Market Medical Executive, Cigna, Mid-Atlantic
Scott Strayer, MD, MPH | Harris-Mayo Chair and Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine & Population Health, VCU
Melissa Thomason | Patient Advocate
Meredith Touchstone | Director, Benefits, Carmax
Rusty Walker | Director Office of Value Based Purchasing, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services
E. Mark Watts, MD | Family Medicine Physician, Carilion
Jeremy Welsh, PA-C, JD, DHSc | Dean & Chair, School of PA Medicine, University of Lynchburg; Pres. Virginia Academy of Physician Assistants
Mary Lindsay White, MHA | Executive Vice President, VAFP
Lisa Woods | VP Physical and Emotional Wellbeing, Walmart