2023 Hospital @ Home Leadership Summit Speaker Bio
Jatin K. Dave, Chief Medical Officer, Director, Associate Professor, Office of Clinical Affairs, For Health Consulting at U Mass Chan Medical School
In his dual medical leadership roles, Dr. Dave is the primary clinical liaison between MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid) and For Health Consulting at U Mass Chan Medical School, emphasizing the close working relationship between the organizations. In addition to helping guide the leadership team in the Office of Clinical Affairs, Dr. Dave is a key part of the MassHealth executive team. As chief medical officer, he provides medical, clinical, policy, and strategic oversight of all health care services for MassHealth members and represents the program on clinical matters.
Dr. Dave joined MassHealth and For Health Consulting at U Mass Chan Medical School from New England Quality Care Alliance, where he served as a chief medical officer, a member of the executive leadership team, quality committees, and the board of trustees. He is also a consultant for the palliative care team at Tufts Medical Center and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine with Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to that, he served as medical director of geriatrics and Senior Care Options at Tufts Health Plan.
Previously, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Dave served as both a primary care physician and consultant geriatrician, as well as director of education. While there, he received the Geriatric Academic Career Award and the Clinical Innovation Award.
After his training in internal medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dr. Dave completed a general internal medicine fellowship at New York University. Dr. Dave then completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard University. He also received a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and earned a bachelor's degree in medicine and in surgery at Gujarat University in Gujarat, India.
Session(s)
Panel: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 2:30pm – 3:15 pm
The Payer’s Perspective: A Broader Definition of Value (PANEL) : While healthcare challenges in the first wave of COVID-19 sparked interest, the value proposition of in-home hospitalization alternatives is fueling the model's momentum as we move out of the public health emergency. Although, early in the pandemic, large academic medical centers and health systems adopted the shift through the government's Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, payers are increasingly leaning into strategies that include high acuity healthcare in the home. However, to create sustainable reimbursement mechanisms, we first need a better definition of the value provided by this model of care. This panel presentation will explore the considerations from the perspective of a payer including how to clinical comfortability (quality and safety), member experience of care, and figuring out mundane logistics like billing procedures.