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Welcome to the CEO Advisory Network Newsletter!
When I stepped down as CEO of Summa Health System after 15 rewarding years, I knew I wasn’t truly done. Leadership is a lifelong calling, and in 2015 I reached out to a trusted circle of colleagues. The first was Frank Lordeman, former COO of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and my longtime partner at both Meridia and Cleveland Clinic. Frank was instrumental in shaping the Cleveland Clinic health system into the success it is today, and together we took the first steps toward what has become the CEO Advisory Network.
Today, our team of 15 partners brings more than 400 years of combined healthcare leadership experience to support executives through one of the most complex eras in our industry. Our mission is simple: help leaders lead better.
This newsletter marks the start of a quarterly communication where we’ll share insights, strategies, and stories from the field. On behalf of all 15 partners, thank you for being part of the journey.
Tom Strauss & Frank Lordeman
CEO Advisory Network
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Welcome Joe
The CEO Advisory Network is pleased to announce that Joe Damore LFACHE has joined us as a partner specializing in value-based care and payment, and population health. Joe has spent the past 15 years focused in assisting hundreds of health systems, ACOs, health plans, and companies in implementing and improving value-based care and payment performance. He has worked in 47 states with several hundred health systems and ACOs in successfully implementing value-based care and payment models.
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He previously served as the VP of Strategy, Innovation, and Population Health (SIPH) at Premier Inc., helping to build the SIPH team into a nationally recognized “Best in KLAS” organization with 80 value-based care consultants. Prior to that he served as CEO of both the Sparrow Health System and Mission Health System for two decades and previously served as an executive at both what are now known as Prisma Health and Trinity Health. He has extensive experience in hospital management, health plan strategy, and health system strategy, and value-based care.
He is currently assisting health systems and ACOs in improving value-based care performance, venture capital firms in evaluating health care investment opportunities, and health care companies in building and taking to market health care value-based products and services.
Full list of CEO Advisory Network Partners
| | Affiliate Spotlight- MedSetGo | |
Meet CAN Affiliate: MedSetGo!
CEO Shrey Kapoor saw a painful gap in healthcare: a lack of accessibility, efficiency, equity, and transparency. What started as problem identification grew into a bold opportunity, and MedSetGo was born.
MedSetGo now sits at the center of the patient care journey. Using a seamless blend of AI and excellent human support, MedSetGo brings simplicity and speed to the referrals, bookings, and service delivery process across the care continuum
Check out Shrey Kapoor's Becker's interview
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Leading Through Washington’s Big Beautiful Bill Implementation
By Blair Childs
Blair Childs has been at the center of healthcare policy issues in Washington, D.C. for more than four decades. He has run some of the nation’s most high profile and successful public policy campaigns that have shaped our healthcare system. This includes the reimbursement reforms in the Affordable Care Act, the creation of Medicare Advantage, the EMR interoperability requirements, defeat of the Clinton healthcare plan, supply chain responses and reforms during and after COVID 19 pandemic, as well as a host of other healthcare issues. Childs has served on the executive leadership team for Premier, Inc., and in leadership positions in trade and advocacy associations, his own businesses, and Aetna.
Read full article here
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Washington Disruption: Implications of OBBBA and What More to Expect from Washington- Webinar Recording
Blair Childs gave a presentation on the implications of the Big Beautiful Bill and covered:
✅ what are the major healthcare reforms in the legislation and how will it impact healthcare providers?
✅ What steps should providers be taking in response?
✅ What other healthcare reforms should be expected from Congress and the administration?
Watch Blairs OBBBA Webinar
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Making Sense of Healthcare Policy & the Big Beautiful Bill
Blair Childs joins Angela Adams, RN, BSN, and Kandice Garcia Tomkins on Success in Chaos to talk about the ever-changing world of U.S. healthcare policy.
In our conversation, I share a brief history of U.S. healthcare and why understanding where we’ve been helps leaders navigate where we’re going.
We also break down the Big Beautiful Bill, exploring its impact on rural healthcare, value-based models, and the funding shifts that organizations need to prepare for now.
Thanks to Angela and Kandice for having me. It’s a conversation I hope sparks proactive engagement in shaping healthcare’s future.
Listen to the Podcast Here
| | | Webinar: How Not to Succeed in the CMS TEAM Bundled Payment Program |
Webinar | Wednesday, September 3, 2025 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET
The CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) is a bundled payment program for five types of surgical care that 740 hospitals will be required to participate in starting on January 1, 2026. This webinar begins with a practical, fast-paced overview of TEAM’s structure. We will then cover common misconceptions about how to succeed in bundled payment models such as TEAM. From there, we’ll go into the key strategies for success, discuss the tools and technology that can be game changers, and share how to approach physician engagement and internal alignment to avoid penalties and maximize earnings in TEAM.
We’ll cover:
- Why most hospitals are misreading the TEAM rulebook - and how to avoid their mistakes
- How to use AI to predict your future performance before CMS does
- How to create alignment with physicians using data transparency and gainsharing
- What your peers are doing now to prepare and what you should do next
Speakers:
Derek Haas, Founder & CEO, Avant-garde Health
Ann Conrath, Director of Sales, Avant-garde Health
Dr. Porter Jones, Vice President of Clinical Transformation, Avant-garde Health
| | CEO Healthcare Roundtable | |
Fall 2025 Meeting | October 15 - 17, 2025
Denver, CO
Our Fall Roundtable will continue to explore the concept of “Disruptions” with a focus on ways that healthcare organizations are being disrupted in response to the growing emphasis and expansion of Value Based Care programs.
We will be exploring lessons learned from successful, as well as some unsuccessful, implementations of Value Based Care models from a hospital and health system perspective, physician perspective and payor perspective.
Keynote Speaker:
Farzad Mostashari, MD
President & CEO, Aledade
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Mostashari will share ways that Aledade is re-inventing relationships with primary care physicians including how physicians are paid. Aledade operates in 46 states; 2100 participating primary care practices; 200+ Value Based Care contracts and 2.8 million lives under management. 93% of Aledade's PCP partners earned shared savings bonuses in 2023.
| | For more information on attending the October Roundtable or becoming a Member of the CEO Healthcare Roundtable contact Marty Hauser, Director & Facilitator, at marty.hauser@ceoadvisorynetwork.com | |
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