Presentation delivered by Renato Suntay, Chief Financial Officer, Meadville Medical Center at the marcus evans National Healthcare CFO Summit Spring 2016 held in Palm Beach, FL
2. Industry Dynamics:
• Payment and Delivery becoming more
interdependent
• Health care becoming more retail
• New clinical care models transforming
care delivery
3. Industry Dynamics:
• Technology changes creating business
models to change
• Government is playing a larger role
• Local competitive dynamics shifting
4. Why is Change so Difficult:
• Fee for service engrained in existing
architecture/reimbursement
leadership is required to change
• Uncertainty of what future state looks like
• Value based models and measures are still
developing in some specialties and settings
5. Why is Change so Difficult:
• Transformation requires funds for support
and infrastructure
• Health IT infrastructure needed to share
health information to new models to be
successful
• Difficult to communicate with patients,
doctors, employers, payers and others
6. How Do Companies Reduce Health
Care Cost:
• Through benefit design
• Pass through costs
• Incentive fees
• Company subsidy of copayments
7. How Do Providers Reduce Cost:
• Cost reduction does not work!
• Need to keep up with new costly technology
• Expert Labor costs are unsustainable
• New generation drugs always in demand
• Providers need to change the way care is
delivered!
8. Things that you do not want to see!
• You do not want to see how Democracy works
• You do not want to see how sausage is made
• You do not want to see how healthcare is
developed
9. What is the Problem in Healthcare
• Money’s worth vs. Cost
• Care vs. Value
• Reimbursement vs. Outcome
• Compassionate care vs. Technology
• As you can see, it is very difficult to define the
overall objective of Healthcare
22. Opportunities
• Maximize HACHPS value based scores
• Maximize quality incentives and Gain Share
programs
• Develop Community Care Networks
• Expand services in growth areas
• Look for opportunities to allocate overhead in
other service lines
• Develop Rural Health Centers in appropriate
areas