Speaker; Leading Expert in Payment Reform, Focusing on Intersection of Higher-Value Health Care and Price Transparency; Nine-time Selectee of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare
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About Suzanne
One of the country’s foremost experts and thought leaders on payment reform, Suzanne F. Delbanco is the executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, an independent, non-profit corporation working to catalyze employers, public purchasers, and others to implement strategies that produce higher value health care and improve the functioning of the health care marketplace.
Since its inception in 2010, Suzanne has led CPR in its commitment to help employers and other purchasers send a clear signal to the market about the need for higher quality, lower cost health care. Though initially focused on advancing payment reform to achieve this goal, Suzanne’s efforts have expanded to include price and quality transparency, benefit design, provider network design, provider consolidation and market power, among other topics.
Speeches & Podcasts
2021
Price Transparency: Achieving Compliance and Creating Meaningful Member Experiences May 2020, AHIP Webinar
Preparing for the New Normal: Getting to Lower Costs without Sacrificing Outcomes August 2020, Midwest Business Group on Health Webinar
Paying for Health: A Community Perspective June 2020, Cambia Grove Webinar Series
Transformation of the US Health System May 2020, UCLA Lecture
The Role of Entrepreneurial Non-Profits in Creating a Better Health Care System May 2020, National Clinician Scholars Program Yale University School of Medicine
The Buy Side of the Market: Employers, Other Purchasers and Payers and Strategies for Market-Based Reform December 2019, Stanford University School of Medicine
Employer Strategies for Driving Value-Based Care October 2019, LAN Summit
How Self-insured Employers Can Find Value in the Face of Provider Market Power October 2019, Self-Insurance Institute of America, Inc.’s National Conference & Expo
Effective Value-Based Payment Strategies September 2019, The Alliance Annual Meeting
CPR’s Accountable Care Organization Strategy – Focus on Accountability September 2019, Houston Business Coalition on Health
Vitals for Change September 2019, MACHC: Employer Directed Healthcare – ACO Summit
Moving from Short-Term Cost Cutting and Expense Reduction to Sustaining Solid Margins March 2019, Modern Healthcare Leadership Symposium
A View from the Private Sector – Direct to Employer Contracting and Value Based Care for Employers March 2019, Premier Winter 2019 Collaborative Meeting
The impact of consolidation among health care providers and what employers can do March 2019, Milliman Elite Employer Summit
Effective Value-Oriented Payment Strategies March 2019, National Hospital Price Transparency Conference