Nominations Open: Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers of 2024

Top 50 VBC Thinkers: Nominations Open Now

New York City, December 14, 2023

Pearl Health today opened up the nomination process for its third annual Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers list, an honor that recognizes healthcare providers, policy makers, academics, and thinkers across disciplines who are leading the US healthcare system’s transition to value-based care.

We’re proud to elevate the voices of healthcare leaders who are asking hard questions, challenging outmoded assumptions, and innovating to deliver better outcomes for patients, providers, and the healthcare system.”
Michael Kopko
Michael Kopko CEO & Co-Founder, Pearl Health

“We’re proud to elevate the voices of healthcare leaders who are asking hard questions, challenging outmoded assumptions, and innovating to deliver better outcomes for patients, providers, and the healthcare system,” said Michael Kopko, CEO and Co-Founder of Pearl Health. “It’s a critical moment for healthcare sustainability and access in the US, and new payment models, risk-sharing partnerships, and emerging technologies are coming together in ways that have real potential to transform how healthcare is delivered and reimbursed. 2024 is going to be another big year for value-based care, and we’re excited for the road ahead.”

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2024 Top 50 VBC Thinkers

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Included in the most recent edition of Pearl Health’s annual Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers list were insights and quotes submitted from leaders such as: Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google; Seema Verma, Former CMS Administrator; Corbin Petro, CEO & Co-Founder of Eleanor Health; Sachin Jain, President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan; Mario Schlosser, President of Technology and Board Member at Oscar Health; Elliott Fisher, Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at The Dartmouth Institute; Vivek Garg, Chief Medical Officer and SVP Primary Care at Humana; and many others.

My years as a physician have taught me that health is human. Treating the whole person and taking account of how social determinants impact them is key to ensuring better health outcomes for that individual and the healthcare system as a whole.
Karen DeSalvo, MD MSc
Karen DeSalvo, MDChief Health Officer, Google
Value based care is the future of health care. It’s not just a different way of paying providers but its construct can solve many of the problems facing our health care system, from reducing provider burden to making our citizens healthier. It creates financial alignment between payers and providers to drive better outcomes while lowering costs.
Seema Verma, MPH
Seema Verma, MPHConsultant & former CMS Administrator
Value and population-based care is the future — approaches that focus on health improvements, address care longitudinally, are driven by high-touch patient-provider relationships, and incorporate the whole person. For complex populations, like those with addiction and mental health needs, incorporating specialists in these payment and care delivery models can dramatically improve health and outcomes and are only just emerging.
Corbin Petro, MBA
Corbin Petro, MBACEO & Co-Founder, Eleanor Health;
Board Member & Advisor
We need to move beyond the “all-good” toxic positivity around value-based care.
Sachin Jain, MD MBA
Sachin H. Jain, MD MBAPresident & CEO, SCAN Group & Health Plan
Value-based care has been optimized into a corner. One with too little impact on outcomes, and too much focus on risk score extraction.
Mario Schlosser
Mario SchlosserPresident of Technology & Board Member, Oscar
For value-based payment to achieve its promise we must work to create a system where all play by the same rules and uniform benefits, enrollment with primary-care focused systems, capitation, and meaningful measures create competitive markets that reward only those who deliver better, cheaper care.
Elliot Fisher
Elliot FisherProfessor of Health Policy and Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute
The values of the physician profession center on beneficence, patient autonomy, justice, and non-maleficence. We seek to create positive action for our patients, address inequities support their decisions, and avoid harm. These values have never been more challenged, by misinformation, burnout, unsupportive systems and financial pressure. We need to reimagine what’s possible in value-based care, to ensure it is values-based care as well.
Vivek Garg, MD MBA
Vivek Garg, MD MBAChief Medical Officer & SVP of Primary Care, Humana

Along with quotes from the Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers, Pearl releases an accompanying report that identifies and explains major themes, news, and trends driving innovation in healthcare. In 2023, this industry coverage included: the central role of physician enablement technology; TEFCA and increasing healthcare data interoperability; Medicare’s ACO REACH and the future of provider-led risk management; the Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) Final Rule; and the rise of ChatGPT and implications of artificial intelligence in Healthcare.

For more information on Pearl Health’s Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers of 2024, the nomination process, or timeline, please visit www.pearlhealth.com/top50vbc.

For any other questions, please contact our team at [email protected].

About Pearl Health

Pearl Health is powering the future of healthcare. Led by provider enablement, risk-bearing, and technology experts, Pearl offers software and services that help providers reimagine how they visualize, understand, and care for their patients. Pearl supports primary care organizations and providers in their transition to value-based care and surfaces data and insights that help them deliver better, more proactive care, decrease total cost of care across patient panels, and optimize performance in risk-bearing models like Medicare’s ACO REACH. Since its founding in 2020, Pearl has raised approximately $100M in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global Investors, AlleyCorp and SV Angel, and has grown to serve providers across the United States.

Learn more at www.pearlhealth.com.

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Madison Klein
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Pearl Health
Madison Klein
Head of Marketing, Pearl Health
562-310-6219
[email protected]

Madison Klein

Madison Klein

Head of Product Marketing, Pearl Health

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