Industry leaders call for national movement to advance accountable care

Eleven healthcare industry leaders have called on hospital and healthcare systems to work together to advance accountable care across the country by sharing their own population health management solutions.

“The transition from volume- to value-based payments is inevitable. While many providers are learning how to adapt to this new world, the vast majority don’t know how to proceed,” Michael Leavitt, co-chairman of the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative, said in an announcement. “The ACLC will provide a forum for collecting ideas from the industry and share them broadly.”

The ACLC's “Call for Collaborative Action," was signed by healthcare leaders from Premier, Inc., Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Trinity Health, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, National Business Group on Health, Duke University, Heritage Provider Network, Integrated Healthcare Association and DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.

To help accelerate accountable care, the group also released a series of seven competency papers that are essential to value-based care. The papers include information on:

“While extensive work has already been done on competencies, this is just the beginning of what a collaborating organization must accomplish. The work will continue as ACLC members continually refine,” Leavitt and colleagues said in a letter (.pdf) accompanying the release of the papers. The letter further calls for contributions from healthcare providers, researchers and payers.

The ACLC also named a number of institutions and providers that can serve as models of the type of accountable care advancements it’s calling for, including The Aspen Group, the Health Care Transformation Task Force, Premier Inc., and the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care.