Dawn Alley, Carebridge, on scaling value-based payment models at CMMI and beyond

The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health

In this episode, I sat down with Dawn Alley, President of Decision Support at Carebridge, a company that works with health plans and states to care for individuals receiving long-term support services. Prior to joining Carebridge, Dawn spent about a decade working in the federal government as Chief Strategy Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and before that as Deputy Senior Advisor for Value-based Transformation at HHS. Dawn and I discuss: 1) The main initiatives she worked on at CMMI including the Accountable Health Communities Model and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program, 2) lessons learned during her tenure about implementing and delivering healthcare models at scale, and 3) why Dawn is excited about the future of long-term care services and why she believes in Carebridge’s model