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Healthier You With Value Based Arrangements

February 15 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Free – $25.00

Join the Wichita Area Benefit Professionals as Dr. Edward J. Hett presents on value-based arrangements and how they may lower costs while improving health. He will discuss the Healthier You Accountable Care Organization,  its clinically integrated network and care management services, as well as value-based arrangement partnerships. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions.

Dr. Hett started in 1981 as a Family Medicine resident at St. Joseph Medical Center, which became part of Via Christi Health when the system was formed in 1993. While he still maintains a family medicine practice as an employed physician within the Via Christi Clinic, Dr. Hett assumed an administrative role in 2012 as Medical Director for New Models of Care and later became the Chief Executive Officer for Via Christi Health’s accountable care organization.  As the physician leader for the health systems’ population health initiatives, Dr. Hett is responsible for new and redesigned models of care, the integration of cost with quality network performance, patient centered medical home transformation, clinical integration across ACO care sites, and leading the subsidiary company in its’ efforts to expand the physician network regionally. In July 2017 he also assumed the role of Chief Clinical Officer for the Ascension Kansas Market and continues to presently serve in that role.