May 06, 2019 Michael Kasper, CEO of Downers Grove, Ill.-based DuPage Medical Group, died May 4, according to a statement from DMG spokesperson Marianne Geiger. Kasper, 46, led DMG as CEO since 2010. With a heavy heart and profound sadness, DuPage Medical Group (DMG) announced that its beloved CEO, Michael A. Kasper, passed away tragically on Saturday, May 4. DMG issued the following statement: “ We are shocked and saddened by the tragic passing of our beloved leader and colleague, Mike Kasper.
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DuPage Medical Group has named a new CEO, about 14 months after its former leader died by suicide.
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DuPage, which is the largest independent doctors’ group in Illinois, announced Steve Nelson as its new CEO on Tuesday. Nelson was previously CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Group.
“Steve is a visionary healthcare leader who is aligned with our mission of taking great care of patients,” said Mike Pacetti, who has served as interim co-CEO during the last 14 months, in a news release. “We conducted a selective and thoughtful search for a new CEO and are confident that Steve will lead our organization to its next phase of growth and success.”
Nelson, 62, has also served in executive roles with Henry Ford Health System and Intermountain Healthcare.
Nelson replaces Michael Kasper, DuPage’s former CEO, who died by suicide at the age of 46 in May of last year. Kasper also ran health insurance plans before joining DuPage.
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Kasper joined the Downers Grove-based medical group in 2010, leading the practice through a period of rapid growth. During Kasper’s time at DuPage, the group grew from a few hundred doctors to more than 700. Under Kasper’s watch, DuPage became the largest independent doctors’ group in Illinois at a time when many small, independent practices have been joining larger hospital systems.
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Specific Strategies to Embrace MACRA Without Missing a Beat - On-Demand
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Now available ON-DEMAND
Presented on:
March 20, 2017
Presented by:
Mike Kasper, CEO, DuPage Medical Group
DuPage Medical Group (DMG), the largest independent multi-specialty physician group in the midwest, based in suburban Chicago is built on four basic, but supremely important principles: high quality, efficient service, value and high access care. Focusing on these four values, the organization was prepared when MACRA became law. DMG has outperformed their peers on many MACRA-related metrics, is proactive in adopting new technologies, and has formed important relationships with other local healthcare organizations, leading them to be one of the best performing organizations in the US on the clinical side.
With MACRA implementation well underway, there is considerable confusion within the industry. What is the best payment model for your organization? How to successfully execute important checklist items? How to overcome the challenges unique to physician organizations? Use this webinar on-demand to hear directly from Mike Kasper, CEO of DuPage, as he outlines the specific strategies that allowed DuPage Medial Group to embrace MACRA without missing a beat.
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Participants of this on-demand webinar will discover:
- Common challenges of MACRA compliance, and how DuPage Medical Group overcame them
- How one organization met and exceeded the challenge of each scoring area of the MACRA
- MACRA payment models: what’s the best fit for your organization?
Agenda
- Meeting MACRA challenges: How DuPage is surviving and thriving
- A detailed case study about how DuPage worked through MACRA-related challenges
- Checklists and major milestones
- Partnerships with hospitals, healthcare systems, ACOs, and other entities
- Challenges unique to Physician Organizations
- MACRA payment models
- MIPS: Why they're the most common choice
- APMs: It’s good to be different
- Scoring high: How to achieve measureable success
- Why ambulatory care is the key to achieving best cost efficiency
- Physician-led programs and quality of care: the unseen relationship
- Modernizing the physician office and healthcare
- Continuous process improvement and clinical practice improvement activities
Webinar system requirements and program materials:
To fully benefit from the webinar experience, please note you will need a computer equipped with the following:
Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, with JavaScript enabled
Internet: 56K or faster Internet connection (high-speed recommended)
Streaming: for audio/video streaming, Adobe Flash plug-in or Safari browser on iOS devices
Four days prior to the webinar, you will receive an e-mail with detailed system requirements, your log-in information, presentation slides, and other materials that you can print and distribute to all attendees at your location.
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No problem. The on-demand version is now available! Use it as a training tool at your convenience—whenever your new or existing staff need a refresher or need to understand a new concept. Play it once or dozens of times! $299 value!
PLEASE NOTE
Participation in the webinar is just $299 per site. All materials must be retrieved from the Internet.
Agenda
- Meeting MACRA challenges: How DuPage is surviving and thriving
- A detailed case study about how DuPage worked through MACRA-related challenges
- Checklists and major milestones
- Partnerships with hospitals, healthcare systems, ACOs, and other entities
- Challenges unique to Physician Organizations
- MACRA payment models
- MIPS: Why they're the most common choice
- APMs: It’s good to be different
- Scoring high: How to achieve measureable success
- Why ambulatory care is the key to achieving best cost efficiency
- Physician-led programs and quality of care: the unseen relationship
- Modernizing the physician office and healthcare
- Continuous process improvement and clinical practice improvement activities