Earl P. Steinberg, M.D., M.P.P. is a nationally known expert in evaluation and improvement of the quality and efficiency of health care.He currently is CEO of xG Health Solutions. From 2011 to 2015, Dr. Steinberg was Executive Vice President of Innovation and Dissemination at Geisinger. Prior to joining Geisinger, Dr. Steinberg, was Sr. VP for Clinical Strategy, Quality & Outcomes at WellPoint, Inc. and President and CEO of Resolution Health Inc. (RHI), a leading health care data analysis company that provides innovative quality improvement and cost reduction services to health plans, employers, PBMs and disease management companies.Prior to joining RHI, Dr. Steinberg spent six years as Vice President of Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services Inc., Director of its Quality Assessment and Improvement Systems (QAIS) Division, and Co-Director of its Outcomes Studies Group (OSG), 12 years on the full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Management and Director of The Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment, four years on the Federal Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) and 20 years as a member of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association’s National Medical Advisory Panel.

Carla Smith, MSN, RNC is the Manager of Bundled Payments for Care Initiative, for St. Bernards Medical Center, is a registered nurse that has 25 years of progressively responsible experience working both directly and indirectly with various patient populations within the St. Bernards Healthcare Center.

St. Bernards Medical Center is licensed for 438 beds and has been serving residents of the region for well over a century. The bundled payment initiative is a part of a very progressive population health program offered by St. Bernards that allows Carla to work within the hospital system using actionable data to reduce care variances, implement evidence based care redesign for acute and post-acute care and provide case management and care transition expertise for selected populations.

Carla has been managing the bundled payment program since 2015 and prior to this spent 13 years serving as the nurse manager and case manager of the area’s first Senior Health Clinic staffed exclusively by geriatricians. She received her gerentological nurse certification in early 2002.

Ms. Eccleston is the Director, Payment Innovation Solutions for Altarum's Center for Value in Health Care, formerly HCI3, where she is responsible for management and oversight of the Institute’s ECR analytic and bundled payment implementations as well as the Bridges to Excellence programs. Ms. Eccleston has more than 25 years experience in analyzing health care data and deriving solutions to improve the efficiency and quality of health care delivery systems.

Prior to joining Altarum, Ms. Eccleston was the assistant commissioner for Health Research and Policy at the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy where she was responsible for providing strategic leadership to provide high-quality, objective analysis on various issues related to health care in the Commonwealth.