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Tahoe Forest Health System CEO outlines outpatient expansion, warns of federal payer cuts
Summary
Anna Roth, CEO of Tahoe Forest Health System, told a Truckee Chamber audience the system plans major outpatient expansions to improve access and affordability and cautioned that recent federal Medicare and Medicaid changes could cost the system more than $10 million annually without protective measures.
Anna Roth, chief executive officer of Tahoe Forest Health System, told the Truckee Chamber of Commerce onstage that the health system is expanding outpatient capacity across the north shore and is tracking federal changes to Medicare and Medicaid that could materially reduce revenue.
Roth said the system is increasingly focused on outpatient services: “87% of our revenue is actually coming from outpatient care,” she said, and described planned expansions at the Gateway Center, the Sierra Center (the former Rite Aid on Donner Pass Road) and a newly named North Shore Clinic. She said the Gateway Center, at full capacity, could handle about 80,000 visits a year.
The expansion plans are tied to access and affordability goals. Roth said leaders will use…
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