“We have to figure out ways to collaborate with them and align the incentives across all of these systems of care,” she said. “Some of that comes top down from payers, but much of that can happen at the local level as well.”
Yet, she noted that she often senses trepidation.
“I always get the question: ‘Well, how do we do this? How do we make this change? It’s not something that we’re necessarily trained for,’ ” Dr. Goodrich said. “There are people out there who are doing this well. This is actually spreading across the country. So seek out those high-performers and learn from them. There’s a lot of learning networks out there that you can access to learn how to make some of these changes.”