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