## Apr 5 Yale Healthcare Conference - Recap: Morning Keynote

## **Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD – President & CEO Geisinger**

Dr. Ryu gave a talk jam-packed with data and efforts making a difference in the value-based world.

Key takeaways: Get upstream of issues and use data to optimize resource utilization.

Topic of note:  We all know equitable access to care is a problem throughout the country.  But particularly enlightening is that we have clear data to compel leaders and innovators to dedicate resources and support where it’s needed most.  Dr. Ryu shared a visual from U.S. News ([at this link](https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/second-opinion/articles/2021-07-27/analysis-of-racial-gaps-in-hospital-care#:~:text=But%20that%20demographic%20profile%20could,more%20than%201%25%20were%20Hispanic.)) that told the story of how cities are doing with regards to care access when the percentage of the pocket community was predominantly black:

- Doing Poorly: Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia  
- Doing Better: Chicago, Atlanta

Certainly, that’s not to say there isn’t plenty of work left to do in the ‘doing better’ cities.  But as I have more and more conversations on the topic of innovations in healthcare technology, I do wonder if this information could equitably guide the location of pilot projects aimed to demonstrate new solution efficacy.

Other compelling nuggets:

- Montana has jaw-dropping Medicaid reimbursement rates compared to Medicare – 150%! _Probably due in part to their bucket of funding being larger per capita than most states, but stunning, nonetheless._
- Geisinger removed RVUs from compensation models largely due to healthcare access issues. _Procedural scheduling and imaging read wait times dropped precipitously for care previously less profitable under the RVU model_
- Health benefits of fresh food pharmacies led to double or triple efficacy when compared to traditional pharmaceutical interventions.
- Supplementing care coordination with services in the home brought PMPM down $400/month.
- Every CT at Geisinger gets read by an ML algorithm first to prioritize physician reads.
- Colorectal cancer is discovered every 150 screenings on average across the industry, through the implementation of pre-screening segmentation analytics, Geisinger has brought such discoveries down to every 13 screens!

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