Webinar: Can Health Plans Improve the Quality of Transitions From Hospital to Home?

The Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and Avalere Health are hosting a webinar to discuss their new report, Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home, which examines how health plan initiatives break down care silos to improve care through direct engagement with patients and care coordination between providers. Participants will examine five practices identified by ACHP member plans as key to successfully implementing programs to improve patient transitions from hospital to home.

When:  Tuesday, April 24, 12–1 pm ET

The expert panel will include:

• Dan Mendelson, CEO and Founder, Avalere Health
• Patricia Smith, President and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans
• Kim Horn, President and CEO, Priority Health
• Patrick Courneya, MD, Medical Director, HealthPartners

Why: 

•  Hospital readmissions are high - nearly one in five Medicare patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within 30 days, leading to high costs of care, poor quality and low patient satisfaction, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine1.
• Health plans can play a vital role in coordinating patients’ care transitions, especially as a centralized source of patient information that increasingly spans across a variety of settings.
• Avalere’s new report for ACHP found that health plans credit their care transition initiatives for positively improving health outcomes, costs of care, and patient satisfaction.

Register:  To register for this webinar and view log-in information, click here and follow the instructions on the screen.