Debbie Welle-Powell has 30-plus years of leadership experience working for large and small health systems and physician organizations in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, helping them to strategically position themselves for financial, clinical, and operational successes in patient finance, capitation, and value-based care.
If you are looking for inspiration and leadership in your “value” journey, look no further. As a thought leader, educator, and content expert in innovative delivery systems of clinical models of care and population health strategy, Debbie believes the value-based care movement is our future moving us from a primarily fee-for-service model of care to one that focuses on the patient, improved quality outcomes, and value.
As a healthcare leader and recent patient herself, Debbie is passionate about healthcare access, excellence, and affordability.
Working with Debbie means taking the path least traveled to discover the greatest potential in people and their organization and why value transformation is a noble journey to undertake in healthcare.
Rita Marti
VP Hospital Partnerships
USA Senior Care Network
How Debbie Can Bring Value to Your Organization.
Debbie can help position your organization for growth and new clients by assisting in developing a population health strategy with health systems, payers, and clinicians that enhance your market position. This includes reviewing analytics to prioritize which providers and ACOs to approach and prioritize with a value-based business plan.
As a skilled negotiator with a proven track record of over thirty years, she can help you identify and negotiate all the important elements of a financially and operationally successful value-based contract with payers, providers, and employers ultimately driving better outcomes and efficiencies. The proven results process includes a current assessment of your organization with scenario building for growth models, new service lines, actuarial models, reporting, care management programs, and telehealth technologies.
She can help build a business plan for a Hospital-at-Home program for your organization. This includes assisting with the CMS Application process, identifying services, DRGS, and workforce and staffing needs. The implementation plan includes tasks in a RACI format to ensure accountabilities and deadlines are achieved on time.
She has expertise and can help you build care management programs that identify focus areas for health disparities, programs to integrate community health, screening tools for social needs, and longer-term commitment to the social determinant of health for a defined population.
Debbie can help you develop risk-bearing payment and growth models for payer partnerships through a variety of network options including integrated delivery systems and ACOs.
Debbie brings energy and optimism to her roles as chair and panel moderator. She deftly drives conversations towards productive dialogues and actionable strategies. We enjoy working with her and value her involvement in our multi-stakeholder events.
The event content and production team of The Healthcare Innovation Congress have had the honor of having Debbie’s involvement and presence in our events as a conference chair and facilitator on multi-stakeholder healthcare executive-focused events.
In her most recent role at our Value-Based Care Summit as conference chair, Debbie brings invaluable experience and expertise in her contribution to validating our programs’ content and recommending thought leaders who are spearheading innovative initiatives. The Healthcare Innovation Company values her experiences in having held leadership roles at large and small health systems and physician organizations in multiple states and her deep understanding of the strategic, financial, clinical and operational considerations involved in transitioning to value-based care models that positively impact the health of diverse populations.
Haritha Krishnarathnam
Vice President Content and Strategy
The Healthcare Innovation Company, Validation Institute