Description
Attendees will learn:
- Benefits of clinical integration for the marketplace, physicians and hospitals
- The key drivers of clinical integration
- The key aspects of an ACO contract
- Approaches to clinical integration and contracting
The information in this program should not be considered legal advice applicable to a specific situation. Legal guidance for individual matters should be obtained from a retained attorney.
Contributors
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Mark Shields, MD, MBA, FACP, Senior Advisor, Navigant Healthcare
Dr. Mark Shields, a Board Certified Internist, has over 25 years of experience in management roles with medical groups, insurance companies, hospitals, and integrated delivery systems. He served for eleven years as Senior Medical Director for Advocate Physician Partners and Vice President of Medical Management for Advocate Health Care. Dr. Shields had been in this role since the start of APP’s nationally recognized Clinical Integration program in 2004, and APP’s launch as one of the nation’s largest Accountable Care Organizations in 2011 serving over 365,000 commercial patients and over 100,000 Medicare patients.
Prior to joining Advocate Physician Partners, Dr. Shields held the position of Chief Medical Officer for Kaleida Health in New York, was the Chief Medical Officer at Dreyer Medical Clinic, Consulting Medical Director of HMOI and President and Co-founder of a primary care group where he practiced general internal medicine and geriatrics.
Dr. Shields has served on the boards of directors of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC), the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and on the Committees on Health Professions and Clinical Leadership of the American Hospital Association. He is the recipient of the Ethel Weinberg Award from AIAMC. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago Business School.