Coordination, Not Competition: Achieving Value-Based Care Through Shared Governance with Jessica Mantel

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2025-04-01 12:00:00 2025-04-01 13:00:00 Coordination, Not Competition: Achieving Value-Based Care Through Shared Governance with Jessica Mantel Event Description Value-based payment (VBP) aims to transform healthcare by incentivizing providers to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs through better care coordination, preventive strategies, and increased efficiency. Yet VBPs have struggled to deliver on their promise. Mantel will discuss a key reason for this limited progress – a regulatory framework that relies on market forces and grants payers significant autonomy in designing and implementing VBP models. This decentralized, bottoms-up approach leads to misaligned payment policies that create barriers for providers seeking to redesign how they care for patients. Mantel advocates for an alternative approach: value-based governance. This model emphasizes collaboration among government agencies, payers, providers, patient advocates, and other stakeholders, replacing fragmented, market decision-making with coordinated public-private efforts that foster payment alignment. Value-based governance can address other systemic challenges to health reform by advancing technical assistance programs that support providers transitioning to value-based care, improving health data-sharing infrastructures, and promoting a workforce equipped to deliver value-based care. Through shared responsibility for policy outcomes and horizontal coordination across the public and private sectors, value-based governance offers a pathway to successfully transforming the healthcare delivery system. Speaker Bio Jessica Lind Mantel joins the Health Law & Policy Institute as co-director after eight years of service with two government agencies in Washington, D.C. She worked most recently as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services. In that position she advised Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on legal issues dealing with Medicare matters, including implementation of the prescription drug benefit, hospital payments, incentive payments for the adoption of electronic health records, and health care reform. She previously worked as a health policy analyst in the Government Accountability Office evaluating Medicare payment issues. Prior to her service with government agencies, she practiced as an associate in the Health Care Department of the firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston and clerked for the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cleveland. Her research interests include the impact of various legislative and regulatory schemes on emerging trends in the health care delivery system and the allocation of limited health care resources. In 1997, Mantel received both her JD from the University of Michigan Law School and an MPP from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy. She also holds a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Case Western Reserve University School of Law George Gund Hall Room A59, Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 School of Law School of Law America/New_York public