dilemma and required her to draft a meeting agenda with proposed ideas to address the problem. Just before graduating in Novem-
ber, aspiring graduates were sched- uled to meet in person for a final cap- stone event to review the course and to conclude with an overview of the business and legal aspects of account- able care, such as contracting options and forming governance committees.
LEADING WHERE YOU ARE Keller family physician Gregory Fuller, MD, enlisted in TMA’s Accountable Care Leadership Program after his practice joined Catalyst Health Net- work. The Dallas-Fort Worth network of independent primary care physi- cians banded together to form their own accountable care-type organiza- tion (ACO) in an area of the state dom- inated by hospital-run ventures. Catalyst asked Dr. Fuller to serve on its board of directors, “so I felt like
this course would really help prepare me for that kind of role. Looking at different leadership styles, you be- come introspective and ask yourself: What qualities do I already have in place as a leader? What do I need to improve? And how do we make our organization better?” The course content on population
health management and performance improvement, he adds, was critically relevant “because those are important components of what we are going to have to do at Catalyst” to secure value- based care contracts with commercial payers. The program is not just for physi- cians aspiring to join an ACO. It dovetails with the TMA Council
on Health Care Quality’s overall goals to prepare physicians for any type of value-based payment proposition and ensure those efforts are physician-led and patient-focused, says Dr. Fuller, the council’s chair.
“In Texas, we feel very strongly that physicians — not nonmedical folks
— need to be leading quality and the definition of quality and development of quality programs,” he said. “The big leap physicians are going to take — es- pecially primary care doctors — is in getting away from reactionary medi- cal care and moving toward proactive, patient-centered medical care. That’s going to be the difference to succeed.” Indeed, payers are quickly transi-
tioning from traditional fee-for-ser- vice payments to a variety of perfor- mance-based models, and physicians play a key collaborative role in making that shift successful, says Thomas J. Quirk, chief executive officer for Unit- edHealthcare in Texas and Oklahoma. Payers have the means to provide comprehensive data and analytics to physicians to better manage their pa- tient panels, and TMA’s Accountable Care Leadership Program gives physi- cians the means to act on it.
Academic Physicians: Receive the Recognition You’ve Earned!
TMA Award for Excellence in Academic Medicine
TMA knows the difference a good educator makes in the life of a physician.
TMA will honor one Gold-level recipient with the Platinum Award — and $5,000 from the TMA Foundation!
Help us recognize physicians who excel in teaching with a Bronze, Silver, or Gold award. Applications are due by Dec. 7, 2015. Nominations are due Nov. 20, 2015, so nominees can apply by Dec. 7.
Apply today, or nominate a qualified physician at:
www.texmed.org/AcademicAward
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