While health care challenges in the first wave of COVID-19 sparked interest, the value proposition of in-home hospitalization alternatives is fueling the model’s momentum as we move out of the public health emergency. Although, early in the pandemic, large academic medical centers and health systems adopted the shift through the government’s Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, payers are increasingly leaning into strategies that include high-acuity health care in the home. However, to create sustainable reimbursement mechanisms, we first need a better definition of the value provided by this model of care. Permanente physician leader Vivian Reyes, MD, join the panel, “The Payer’s Perspective: A Broader Definition of Value,” which will explore the considerations from the perspective of a payer including how to clinical comfortability (quality and safety), member experience of care, and figuring out mundane logistics like billing procedures. Join this panel on June 6, at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Learning objectives

• Discussing the key metrics to better understand bottom line value 
• Exploring the payer’s perspective on the value of high-acuity healthcare in the home, including quality and safety; measuring medical cost savings; and the value beyond direct medical cost savings 
• Understanding the obstacles to ongoing scaling of these programs  
• Learning more about the monthly reporting requirements including unanticipated mortality, transfer to inpatient care at brick-and-mortar hospitals, and volume of patients treated 

Speakers

• Vivian Reyes, MD, national physician lead, Kaiser Permanente Care at Home, The Permanente Federation; regional medical director, The Permanente Medical Group
• Patrick Kneeland, MD, vice president of Medical Affairs, DispatchHealth 
• David Brumley, MD, MBA, senior vice president and chief medical officer, Fallon Health 
• Jatin Dave, MD, MPH, chief medical officer, MassHealth and Associate Professor, Population and Quantitative Health Science, UMass Chan Medical School