A payment reform thought leader and expert in healthcare analytics, with more than 12 years experience in the payer and hospital arenas, Jay Sultan is responsible for developing value-based reimbursement, ACO, and analytics solutions.  Prior to joining TriZetto, Sultan was the architect and principal author of two payment-bundling programs chosen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as Acute Care Episode demonstration project sites. As the chief operating officer of MedAlign, he developed a number of innovative payment-reform programs, including episodic provider payment, for which he is the author of a patent.

Areas of Expertise
Payment bundling and episode-of-care payment
Accountable care organization (ACO)
Patient-centered medical home (PCMH)
Value-based reimbursement strategies
Payment reform
Physician and hospital incentives
Quality measurement
Clinical analytics
Data management for analytics

Recent Presentations
• Episode of Care Payment – A Business Imperative Whose Time (and Technology) Has Come (National Pay for Performance Summit)
• What a Plan Knows: The Mandate to Use Provider and Plan Data to Become Accountable (ACO Summit)