Guy Masters

Guy Masters serves as Senior Vice President at the Camden Group. He described how new health care payment and delivery systems will work and reviewed lessons learned from early adopters of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Mr. Masters presented a “Healthcare Reform Strategy Check List”, divided into five parts: 1) Reduce operating costs; 2) Prepare for bundled payments; 3) Prepare for an ACO (delivery system); 4) Invest “smart” in IT and Care Models; and 5) Assess your market, stay close to payer activity, follow the money, help set the rules.