Sixteen states received a passing grade in CPR’s 2020 Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws. While it is a win that more consumers have access to price information to select lower-cost providers, consumer shopping is not the silver bullet to the nation’s health care cost problem.
On top of health care’s already complex landscape, significant legislative and regulatory activity is expected over the next few years to address health care priorities at the federal and state
Public, immutable, and secure. Those are the three strengths of blockchain technology that John Bass, the founder of Hashed Health, stressed to the CPR staff when he visited our offices
Did you know that the U.S. spends over $200 billion on mental health disorders, ranking it as one of the costliest areas of health care, even above heart conditions and
Twenty-nine percent of payments to doctors and hospitals are through “alternative payment models” (APMs), according to the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN). This includes payment reforms that
Are we really transitioning away from fee-for-service? Suzanne calls Bob Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, to discuss the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, why it’s flawed and why
Listen in to CPR’s Director of Member Services, Ryan Olmstead, catch up with Lynn Quincy, Director of the Altarum Healthcare Value Hub. They discuss Lynn’s favorite issue brief, the pitfalls
Suzanne dials up Farzad Mostashari, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aledade, an innovative organization with the mission to support primary care providers (PCPs) in the shift to value-based payment.
Why is it so important that employers pay close attention to their formularies? Emily Roesing calls Lauren Vela, Senior Director of Member Value at the Pacific Business Group on Health,
Suzanne chats with Larry Levitt, Senior VP for Health Reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation, about employers’ role in health care coverage given the passage of the recent tax law.
Tricky question. As this Slate article explains, measuring the effect of providing insurance is difficult because those with insurance and those without may differ in many ways that cannot be controlled. Luckily, there
Roz Murray, CPR’s Senior Project and Research Manager, called Jeff Rideout and his team, Lindsay Erickson and Ginamarie Gianandrea, to learn about the Integrated Healthcare Association’s (IHA) effort to standardize
You’re probably aware that the U.S. spends a lot on cancer, but do you know how much? In 2014 roughly $88 billion was spent in the U.S. on cancer-related health care.
Suzanne is curious to learn from Michael Chernew, Health Economist and Professor at the Harvard Medical School, about employers’ role in demanding and participating in evaluations of payment and delivery
What do patients think makes for high-quality care? This is the question that the Public Agenda’s July 2017 report “Qualities That Matter: Public Perceptions of Quality in Diabetes Care, Joint
Suzanne calls Jeff Goldsmith, President of Health Futures, Inc and National Advisor to Navigant Healthcare, to learn why he has long been cynical of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and inquire
With the passage into law of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on December 22, 2017, this bill is now in the rear-view mirror. While the tax impact on corporations
When Suzanne Delbanco called Dana Goldman, Director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California, she learned about what leads to waste in
Andréa Caballero dials up Jonathan Mathieu, VP of Research and Compliance & Chief Economist at the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC). They discuss the provocative research using
Any benefit communications expert will advise you of the importance of having a year-round benefit communications and marketing strategy, as opposed to focusing your communication efforts only during annual enrollment.
