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Adaptive Business Leaders Invite Margolin to Discuss Life Beyond the ACO – San Francisco, CA

California’s leading Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL, asked Margolin to join a leadership roundtable discussion regarding Accountable Care Organizations. In her talk, entitled “Beyond Current Reality: Virtually Integrated Networks and the Power of Fully Partnered ACOs – Bridging the Gap Between ‘Care’ and ‘Coverage’” Margolin engaged with hospital, physician, business and government leaders to consider the impacts and opportunities under Health Care Reform.

Long Beach Rotary Features Margolin on Health Care Transformation 10.06.10

Leslie Margolin was the featured speaker at a gathering of the Long Beach Rotary addressing individual, business and community impacts and opportunities under the recently enacted Health Care Reform legislation. Among other critical issues, Margolin focused on the need, and the way, to address system-wide misaligned incentives that, unaddressed, have the crippling effect of separating health care from health coverage, resulting in clinical and administrative duplication, fragmentation and redundancy that […]

UCLA Faculty and Corporate HR Leaders Gather to Discuss “Health Care in the New Normal” at HARRT Round Table – Los Angeles, CA – 09.29.10

In a presentation entitled “Transforming Health Care: A New Agenda for Reducing Costs and Improving the Quality and Safety of Care,” Margolin spoke with leading health economists and academicians as well as top level HR leaders from a wide variety of local, national and multi-national corporations, regarding health care reform and health transformation. Together, attendees discussed the critical roles employers and individual consumers must play in driving for system-wide improvements […]

The Margolin Group applauds Anthem Blue Cross for its partnership with 7 LA/OC health systems to launch Vivity

This first-in-the-nation partnership between an insurer and seven competing hospital systems will align to share financial risk and gain and aims to enhance the health of all Anthem Blue Cross Vivity members. The seven hospital systems – all have hospitals ranked in the top 30 in Los Angeles County by U.S. News & World Report – are Cedars-Sinai, Good Samaritan Hospital, Huntington Memorial Hospital, MemorialCare Health System, PIH Health, Torrance […]