WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Joshua Rosenthal, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at RowdMap, Inc., will be speaking on how identifying, quantifying and reducing low-value care is key to achieving success in value based programs and risk arrangements in order to capture value from population health programs.
Rosenthal joins leaders from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American Medical Association (AMA) and providers like Johns Hopkins Healthcare including: Matthew J. Press, MD, Senior Advisor and Medical Officer, Office of the Director, Center of Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at CMS; Terri L. Postma, MD, Medical Officer and Advisor in the Center for Medicare (CM) at CMS; Trisha M. Frick-Hoff, Director, Bundled Rate Contracting, Johns Hopkins Healthcare; Richard Deem, Senior Vice President, American Medical Association.
The lecture is entitled, "Population Health in a Value-Based World: The Public and Social Impact of Low Value and No Value Care in Evolving Medical Economic Models" and will be delivered at the Auburn University Emerging Issues in U.S. Health Care Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.: http://bit.ly/250Vbry .
The lecture will focus on low-value and no-value care and its policy, market and consumer adoption. The lecture will address low-value care and its impact on value-based economic models and population health programs.
"Public and social good from population health gains economic viability through value-based arrangements, and the key its success is reducing low-value care," said Joshua Rosenthal, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at RowdMap, Inc.
About RowdMap, Inc.:
An Ernst and Young EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® winner, RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® benchmarks help health plans, physician groups, and hospital systems identify, quantify, and reduce no-value care that physicians deliver--a central tenet of successful pay-for-value programs.
Through practice pattern and referral analysis, RowdMap's benchmarks identify the health care entities that manage unwarranted and unexpected variation in care. This variation leads to more than $850 billion in no-value care annually. Payers and physicians use RowdMap's physician and population health benchmarks to create strategies that put these highest performing physicians at the center of networks and then design products, organize clinical programs, and coordinate sales and marketing around them.
RowdMap's platform comes preloaded with benchmarks for every physician, hospital, and zip code in the United States--no IT integration required. RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® Platform works across all market segments and has significantly larger returns than traditional medical economics approaches.
For more information, please visit http://www.RowdMap.com
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