LUMINA Podcasts

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COVID-19 has left healthcare leaders scrambling to adjust to a new normal. As organizations navigate the post-pandemic landscape, leaders are looking for ways to drive margin enhancement while safely ramping up service delivery.

In this two-part series, Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee Chopra first talk with colleague Kathy Najarian to learn her top strategies for working with payers to claim the revenue lost from decreased volume during the pandemic. Next, Rick Howard shares his insights on reducing cost by managing variable costs and doing more with what leaders already have.

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In this episode of Value-Based Care Insights by Lumina Health Partners, hosts Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee J. Chopra provide commentary on Dr. George Mayzell and Doug McKinley’s webinar about physician burnout and dissatisfaction. The episode dives into pre-COVID issues, post-COVID realities, and how to create a culture of wellness.

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As physicians prepare to re-emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown, they’re facing the challenge of adapting their practice to new realities. Hosts Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee J. Chopra speak with Doug McKinley to discuss how physicians can change their mindset around the “old normal” and pivot to align with the new normal that includes new telehealth environments, new rulings, new financial realities, and new healthcare systems.

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While pneumonia can be prevented, not every patient older than 65 or diagnosed with chronic diseases receives the pneumococcal vaccine (PV). Some practices aren’t even aware of their current vaccination rates or what rates they should be targeting. In this episode of Value-Based Care Insights, Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee J. Chopra talk with Vince Keenan, the chief executive officer of Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, about how a quality improvement project that Lumina Health Partners assisted with. The project focused on increasing PV rates, which gives us insight on how to address other public health issues clinicians face.

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The current COVID-19 pandemic is putting new pressures on healthcare infrastructure and providers, challenging them to meet increasing patient care demands while maintaining the safety of staff, patients, and even entire communities.

As a result, providers are being called on to pivot their care delivery models and leverage technology, providing patient care at a distance while meeting the health and safety needs of the community.

In this two-part series, Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee Chopra first revisit Lumina’s “Patient Care in Crisis: How to Launch, Code and Bill Telehealth Services” webinar to review Dr. George Mayzell’s insights on setting up telehealth visits within a practice. Then we’ll hear Lucy Zielinski’s suggestions for documenting and billing for telehealth visits to ensure practices are reimbursed appropriately.

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In today’s climate, academic medical centers (AMCs) struggle to understand where they fit in the value-based care arena. Leaders from AMCs across the country are challenged with finding the value proposition for their specialty services. As a continuation of the conversation in Episode 10, Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee Chopra introduce Brent Estes, senior vice president of business development for Advocate Aurora Health. Brent dives into the challenges that AMCs face when moving to a value-based care model, the different type of value-based care models that can help them advance, how to find the right structure of governance, and how healthcare leaders can manage the shift from the top down.

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In this episode of Value-Based Care Insights, Daniel J. Marino and special guest John Marren discuss value-based care strategies in academic medical centers (AMC). The conversation explores the inherent challenges that exist with academic medical centers as they think about shifting to value-based care, identifying success drivers and how to create a burning platform for change within the AMC structure.

John Marren is the owner of Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose, Ltd. and a healthcare lawyer. John contributes 30 years of experience to this topic, sharing some of the approaches academic medical centers must consider as they pivot into value-based care.

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As part of VBCI’s ongoing coverage of clinical variation reduction (CVR), Episode 9 “How to Start CVR,” focuses on proven approaches for integrating the concept to an organization’s operations.

Lumina Health Partners Principal George Mayzell MD, MBA, FACHE joins co-hosts Daniel J. Marino and Shaillee Chopra to share an effective two-pronged approach that relies on strong physician engagement and adapting organizational infrastructure to support needed changes.

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Managing Principal Daniel J. Marino and Managing Principal John Malone discuss why it is important for organizations to focus on clinical variation strategies to manage and reduce the cost of operations. John shares various data-driven approaches to manage variation in processes, training and operations that lead to decreased costs across lines of service. 

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Lumina Health Partners Principal Daniel J. Marino welcomes Dr. Alvia Siddiqi, the vice president of population health for Advocate Aurora Health in Chicago, to discuss how provider incentives and leadership governance opportunities can engage – and retain – employed physicians.

The conversation is part of Lumina Health Partners’ ongoing study of how to align provider incentives and build a practice model that ensures sustainability and success under value-based care.