The 30 Years’ War for value-based care: Archway’s Dave Terry

When Dave Terry started his career in healthcare three decades ago, he noticed something odd and disturbing. The fee-for-service model meant doctors were paid for quantity, not for quality or cost effectiveness. Since then he’s been working to do something about it: for the first twenty years at American Practice Management, then Partners Healthcare and Harborside Healthcare. He made progress, but also learned the limitations of acting against entrenched interests.

For the last decade he’s gotten even more serious, co-founding Remedy Partners in the wake of the Affordable Care Act and then Archway Health, where he is CEO. Archway helps physicians jump into the meaningful risk-based payment models that are finally on offer from the Feds and private carriers.

I compared Dave’s quest to the Thirty Years’ War, but reminded him that there was a Hundred Years’ War, too, so he better gird himself.

Show notes:

• Dave’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-terry-19b370/
• Archway Health https://www.archwayhealth.com/ 
• BPCI Advanced https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/bpci-advanced
• No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606529/no-rules-rules-by-reed-hastings-and-erin-meyer/ 
• The Everything Store by Bard Stone https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brad-stone/the-everything-store/9780316219266/ 
• Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ 
• David’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams/ 

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Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group.

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