About

The Work

Most clinical operations were not designed for value-based care — they were adapted to it, incrementally, under pressure, without the structural changes that would have made the adaptation work. Care management programs were layered onto existing workflows rather than built for them. Team roles were preserved rather than redesigned. The result is organizations that are accountable for outcomes their operational infrastructure was not built to produce, and the distance between those two things is measurable in performance gaps, team strain, and the persistent sense that something is not working the way it should.

The Perspective

Tara Braun, RN, BSN, MS, CCM founded Core Care Consulting after more than 15 years working on the payer side of care management. That experience meant living inside the operational systems that determine whether a care management program actually functions — not evaluating them from the outside, but building, running, and troubleshooting them from within. What that work made clear is that the distance between a program that performs and one that does not is almost always operational, not clinical, and that closing it requires someone who understands both what the data is measuring and what is actually happening on the ground.

Who This Work is For

Core Care Consulting works with health plans, provider organizations, clinically integrated networks, and value-based care programs accountable for clinical performance and patient outcomes. The organizations that get the most from this work are usually the ones that already know something is not functioning the way it should — and need someone who can identify exactly what that is and build something that actually holds.