Jade Gong Co-authors PACE Article in Advance for Long-Term Care Management Magazine

Jade Gong, MBA, RN, vice president of strategic initiatives at HDG, and Richard Burke, MA, MBA, president of senior care services at Fallon Community Health Plan in Worcester, Mass. co-authored an article that recently appeared in Advance for Long-Term Care Management. The article, Going the Distance, addressed ways PACE leaders can remain financially strong during this financial storm, with a focus on seven key considerations:

1. Proactively reinforce and monitor doing the basics well. 
2. Top-line revenue must reflect participant acuity.
3. Manage utilization of medical services with a best practices approach.
4. Scrutinize the appropriateness of expenditures.
5. Understand the unit costs of your medical expenses.
6. Seek opportunities to leverage technology.
7. Create an operations management dashboard.

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