REPORTS
Virginia Primary Care Spend Report
Virginia Total Cost of Care Report
Virginia Behavioral Health Report
Virginia Primary Care Scorecard
Virginia Telehealth Report
VCHI Comprehensive Report SFY 2023
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
Task Force Members
Sandy Chung, MD, Co-Chair
CEO, Trusted Doctors
Immediate Past President- AAP, Virginia Chapter; President, American Academy of Pediatrics
Jeff Ricketts, Co-Chair
Former President, Anthem Virginia
Heather Anderson
Division Director, Primary Care and Rural Health, VDH
Julie Bilodeau, MBA
CEO, CrossOver Healthcare Ministry
John Brady, MD
Newport News, 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 & CMIIO, Riverside Health System
HoChong Gilles, NP
McGuire Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chesterfield, Immediate Past-Pres Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners
Bryan Haynes
CEO, Southwest Virginia Community Health System, Saltville
Stuart Henochowicz, MD, MBA, FACP
Internal Medicine & Allergy Associates; Governor ACP, Burke
Cornel Hubbard, JD, CCEP
VP and General Manager, Magellan of Virginia, Richmond
Gary Johnston
Director, Health Benefit Services, Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, Richmond
Russell Libby, MD
President, Virginia Pediatric Group
John Littel
VA Secretary of Health & Human Resources
Jerry Mammano
CEO, Aetna Better Health of Virginia
John Morgan, MD
Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services
Gordon Moore, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Goodside Health
Katherine Neuhausen, MD, MPH
CMO, UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchanges, Richmond
Sara Nicely, PA
Chair & Program Director, Radford University and 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 Leaders, 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, Richmond
JP Verderese, MD
Health and Public Policy Chair, American College of Physicians, Virginia Chapter, Division Chief, Community Health, Inova, Falls Church
Lisa Woods
VP Physical and Emotional Wellbeing, Walmart, Arkansas
COMMITTEES
Clinician Retention & Wellbeing
Establishes recommendations for workforce retention to ensure adequate primary care access for Virginians.
Key Projects:
- Establish the Primary Care Innovation Hub to share best practices and resources
- Launch pilot to become the first state to implement a statewide AMA Joy in Medicine ™ Program
Performance Measurement
Defines performance measures to evaluate high value and high quality primary care
Key Projects:
- Pilot a Person-Centered Primary Care Measure (PCPCM) and What Matters Index (WMI) pilot in at least 40 Virginia primary care practices
Spend Reports
Describes trends in the primary care landscape in Virginia and identifies resource needs
Key Projects:
- Develop reports on total cost of care, primary care spend, behavioral health and telehealth
- Develop a Primary Care Scorecard for Virginia
Payment Reform
Convenes stakeholders to define and align payment strategies and priorities for innovative payment approaches to support primary care.
Key Projects:
- Design and implement a pilot to integrate behavioral health into primary care for the pediatric population