Newsletter

January 18, 2022

 

Leadership Spotlight:

Payer and Provider Joint Ventures Trending

Last week, Cigna CEO David Cordani said primary care would be a key target for the health insurer going forward, signaling that the payer is joining a growing trend in the insurance market of vertical integration with provider groups and practices.

Historically, the relationships between insurers and providers typically revolved around negotiating payments and navigating denials and related revenue cycle challenges. However, that dynamic is changing, as evidenced by an uptick in collaborative conversations, alliances and business arrangements between insurers and providers, according to John Poziemski, managing director, Kaufman Hall, in a feature in the latest issue of Healthcare Executive.

In our Jan/Feb 2022 cover story, we examine this growing trend of payer and provider joint ventures, such as a recent collaboration between Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and MaineHealth, and how these partnerships are not only driving increased value to patients/members and purchasers, but they are also helping insurers and providers achieve strategic and business goals.

“Payers and Providers: Partnerships Lead to Success” is now available on HealthcareExecutive.org, along with exclusive online-only Web Extras and the Healthcare Executive Podcast.

Creating a Culture of Replenishment and a Healthy Workplace Ecosystem 

As the healthcare workforce enters its third year of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, replenishment is sorely needed at healthcare organizations everywhere. At this year’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership, March 28–31, join Quint Studer for the ACHE/AUPHA Joint Address: Creating a Culture of Replenishment. He will provide insights into how leaders can assess the current state of well-being, stress and trauma at the individual and organizational levels, and discuss techniques to help refill and renew the sense of passion in healthcare leaders that can become temporarily depleted.

For those interested in attending the Virtual Leadership Symposium, April 11–12, Studer will also deliver a Hot Topic session on a similar topic, The Employee Well-Being Ecosystem: Reimagining the Workplace of the Future. During this session, Studer will describe the core components of a healthy workplace ecosystem and identify approaches for fostering such ecosystems to improve outcomes for employees, leaders, patients and organizations.

Studer, who is also the author of a new book, The Calling, has generously offered to donate $1.00 for each sale of his book to the Fund for Healthcare Leadership, which provides scholarships to ACHE members who seek resources to acquire the skills and training needed to effectively lead today and into the future.

Visit ache.org/Congress to explore all of this year’s offerings, and be sure to register by March 7 for early bird registration prices. Congress registrants who are interested in attending the Virtual Leadership Symposium can register for that event with a discount of more than 50% off the regular fee by adding it to their in-person Congress registration.

Earn Up to 24 Education Credits to Recertify Your FACHE®

If you are an ACHE Fellow whose credentials are set to expire this year, or were set to expire in 2021 or 2020, you can earn up to 24 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits by attending the 2022 Congress on Healthcare Leadership and the Virtual Leadership Symposium. Normally, the recertification application with payment is due between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of the year in which certification expires, but the recertification deadline has been extended for the 2020 and 2021 recertification classes to April 30, 2022. Fellows can recertify in three easy steps:

  • Complete continuing education activities or retake and pass the Board of Governors Exam.
  • Complete four volunteer activities.
  • Pay the recertification fee of $200 when you submit your recertification application by the April 30 deadline.

You can learn more about the recertification process by visiting ache.org/FACHE and selecting the Maintain/Recertify My FACHE button from the menu.

Additionally, if you are over the age of 60 and will retire within the next five years, you may be eligible for a one-time only five-year recertification waiver. For more information, please contact Customer Service at (312) 424-9400 or contact@ache.org.

Current Fellows who are in good standing and are retired from healthcare management may transfer to Retired Status or Life Status. Learn more about the FACHE(R) and LFACHE designations here.

Popular Reads Now Available as Audiobooks

Now, you can listen to some of your favorite Health Administration Press titles in an audiobook format. Leaders of all career stages will benefit from listening to the unabridged Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders, a James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award winner. Through stories, interviews and research findings, Amer Kaissi, PhD, professor of healthcare administration at Trinity University, offers an engaging exploration of evidence-based practices from an array of leaders in different settings.

For those in the early stages of becoming a healthcare leader, you’ll find The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide, Second Edition, also unabridged, to be an essential resource. Packed with tactics, tips and illuminating examples, this audiobook will become an indispensable guide to building your career in healthcare leadership.

Get your audiobook copies of Intangibles and The Emerging Healthcare Leader today.

2022 Early Careerist Coupons Available

When early careerists set their professional development goals for 2022, they have several special discounted education and career programs from which to choose. Members and Fellows under the age of 40 automatically belong to the Early Careerist Network and are entitled to select one coupon in 2022 from eight premier education and career development resource offerings now available.

Early careerists can recharge with fresh ideas and achieve their career goals in the new year by choosing from one of the coupon offerings for the following ACHE programs and resources:

Coupons must be used at time of registration or within 30 days of prior registration (must be within the same calendar year of program start date). Coupons expire Dec. 31 of the year they are issued.

Making a Difference as a Mentor

At ACHE, we believe that no matter where you are in your career, mentoring others—and being mentored—should be part of your professional growth. The pandemic has only accentuated the need for professional connectivity regardless of geographic location, and one related outcome has been the elevation of mentoring as a valid venue for such connection and innovative conversation at all stages, write Barbara Perez Deppman, FACHE, and Gina T. LaMantia, FACHE, in the Nov/Dec 2021 “Careers” column of Healthcare Executive.

With January being National Mentoring Month, there’s no better time than now to commit to becoming a mentor. The newly developed digital Leadership Mentoring Network will provide enhanced matching and support for successful mentor partnerships. Each formal mentor-mentee partnership will last six months, although we encourage the partnerships to extend beyond the formal timeline.

If you are a healthcare leader with a minimum of five years of experience at the director level or higher, we invite you consider becoming a mentor through the Leadership Mentoring Network. Being a mentor provides numerous benefits, which you can learn about in this ACHE Blog post.

If you are ready to starting giving back to the field, visit the Leadership Mentoring Network today to complete your mentor profile.