Mar 14, 2019
Arshad Rahim, MD, MBA,
FACP, is a practicing physician and a health economist at
his core. He enjoys a track record of building innovative health
care businesses, including Mount Sinai Health Partners,
Healthgrades, and Sg2. As the senior medical director for
population health at Mount Sinai Health System, Dr. Rahim is
responsible for driving physician performance for 3000 physicians
within the Mount Sinai Clinically Integrated Network, focusing on
key utilization, cost, and quality metrics. Dr. Rahim has a
bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University, an MD from the
University of North Carolina, and an MBA from Emory University. He
completed his internal medicine residency at Yale University and
Northwestern University and is an actively practicing hospitalist
at the Mount Sinai Hospital.
01:14 The most important aspect of population health that you
really have to get right.
01:53 Having great ideas with terrible execution.
02:35 “In pop health … you gotta make sure that you [have] your A
and B players … at the front.”
02:56 “For your core processes, you gotta make sure the people
aspect is right.”
03:14 “Anything transformative is probably going to be 3 times
harder.”
06:24 Measuring and setting metrics.
08:37 “The clock is always on.”
09:51 “Excellent due diligence in technology is … not as common as
it should be from the purchaser.”
11:01 Making population health sustainable.
16:03 “It’s a very rational choice to just … focus on a
fee-for-service model.”
19:48 Negotiating a population health management contract that
enables health organizations.
21:36 “Most of them don’t have all the answers.”
22:31 “You also want to make sure that the rules don’t change on
you as you start to get better.”
24:20 “It just makes sense … the devil is in the details.”
24:52 The importance of financial integration.
27:13 “If you really get down to it, no one disagrees with the
change in care delivery.”