“Andy Slavitt was working as an executive at Optum in 2013 when he was called in to be part of the team tasked with repairing Healthcare.gov’s disastrous rollout, kicking off a two-year stint as acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Five years later, Slavitt is back in the private sector and again focused on fixing America’s healthcare system, this time from outside the government… Next up? The Medicaid Transformation Project, a plan to improve the way the 75 million Americans on Medicaid receive treatment at some of the country’s largest hospital systems…”
“Slavitt is pulling together the CEOs of 17 hospital systems around the country to commit to improving care for their Medicaid patients over the next two years in at least four areas: behavioral health, women and infant care, substance use…”
“To improve that communication, Slavitt has partnered with Chicago-based digital health firm Avia, which will help implement and scale…” Read the full article here.
Source: The Man Who Used To Run Medicaid Has A New Idea To Make It Better – By Michela Tindera, August 22, 2018. Forbes.
