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Dr. Daniel Beckles, Surgeon at Ochsner Health · Becker’s Payer Issues Podcast

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  This is Gracelyn Keller with the Becker's Healthcare
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  podcast, and we are live at the 2024
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  payer issues roundtable.
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  I'm currently joined by doctor Daniel Beckles, who's
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  a surgeon at Ochsner Health. So doctor Beckles,
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  thank you for joining me today. Let's start
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  our conversation by having you introduce yourself and
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  tell us a little bit about your role.
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  Absolutely. Good morning, and, you know, thanks for
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  having me here. I'm doctor Daniel Beckles,
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  a cardiothoracic surgeon employed at Ochsner Health in
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  Louisiana.
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  I am director of cardiac
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  cardiothoracic surgery services
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  in CHRISTUS Health, St. Pat's Hospital in Lake
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  Charles.
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  Wonderful. Well, thank you for taking the time
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  to be here. And let's start our conversation
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  talking about priorities.
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  So from improving member experience
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  and expanding value based care to controlling costs,
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  payer executives have ambitious growth goals for the
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  rest of 2024 and the new year ahead.
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  So in your role, what is your top
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  priority and how are you planning to get
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  there?
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  My top priority is
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  delivering value based care to our community
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  and beyond.
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  And so by using
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  and improving
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  our own
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  outcomes data,
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  we're able to do a root cause analysis
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  of a lot of these metrics that already
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  benchmark
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  nationally
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  and really come up with new processes
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  and structures of how to improve quality
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  and thereby decrease cost.
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  Absolutely. And going off of that, at an
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  industry level, how would you describe the biggest
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  barriers to effectively serving and engaging members? And
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  what opportunities
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  do you see for large scale improvements?
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  And how are you applying those in your
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  current strategies?
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  I think the biggest
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  barriers we see now is really, you know,
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  lifestyle choices
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  of a lot of, you know, our members.
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  And I think, you know, we just have
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  to put use what other industries are using.
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  We just have to put incentives on it,
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  you know, to incentivize
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  better choices. It's really that simple. And how
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  we go about that is gonna be very
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  innovative moving ahead.
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  Wonderful. And switching gears a little bit toward
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  growing leaders.
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  Keeping pace in today's dynamic health care landscape
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  is challenging.
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  So what is one piece of advice you'd
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  share with peer leaders to grow their businesses
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  while keeping members top of mind?
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  I think we have to focus
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  on people. I think we really have to
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  take care of our own people and the
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  people that we work with, the people that
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  are around us. I think if we just
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  start just start there,
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  start by really looking at their
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  at their health and how we can improve,
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  you know, one person at a time. But
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  starting really
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  at the people level, really what they want,
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  and and just
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  provided them with much better choices
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  to live a more happier and healthier lifestyle.
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  And as we wrap our conversation today, is
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  there any closing words you'd like to share
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  on the podcast?
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  No. I think this is these are really
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  exciting times, you know, in health care.
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  We have so much data. A lot of
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  hospitals
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  and industry have so much data today. What
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  we do with that data, I think, is
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  very important
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  moving forward where we can use it in
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  a very constructive way to really improve health
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  overall.
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  So thanks for having me. Wonderful. Well, thank
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  you for being here. Again, we're live at
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  the 2024 Payer Issues Roundtable.