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Robert Smith on how a purchaser alliance can change Denver’s market dynamics
November 12, 2019
Robert Smith, Executive Director of the Colorado Business Group (CBGH) on Health, checks in with Suzanne Delbanco on what’s new…
Got hospital “lemons” in your network? Ditch them or make lemon-“aid”?
October 22, 2019
A few weeks ago, we published a blog post on the challenges of building a high-performance network (HPN). We landed…
Chapin White on the Employer Hospital Price Transparency Project
October 14, 2019
Price transparency is not one-size-fits-all. The optimal price information for a patient is different from the price transparency a physician…
Finding value with CPR’s Data Warehouse & Analytics Evaluation project
October 07, 2019
Data warehouse and analytics vendors are important partners for the employers and other health care purchasers who self-fund health care…
Tricia McGinnis on how Medicaid MCOs approach Social Determinants of Health
September 24, 2019
How and why are social determinants of health programs making their way into the Medicaid managed care realm? To find…
Mark Fendrick on unveiling a cost-neutral Value-Based Insurance Design option
September 10, 2019
Listen in as Mark Fendrick, Director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a practicing general…
Brooks Daverman on Tennessee Medicaid’s bundled payment success
August 26, 2019
Listen in to Brooks Daverman, Deputy Director of TennCare (Tennessee’s Medicaid program), debate Catalyst for Payment Reform’s Suzanne Delbanco on…
Cheryl DeMars on achieving longevity in group health care purchasing
August 19, 2019
Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco calls Cheryl DeMars, President & CEO of The Alliance – a cooperative of 240 self-funded…
You can’t build a network by casting a net
July 29, 2019
Unpacking the complexity of high-performance network design The National Business Group on Health (NBGH) predicted that by 2018 a staggering…
Trent Haywood on BCBSA’s role in addressing community barriers to health
July 29, 2019
Listen in as Trent Haywood, MD, JD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Blue Cross Blue Shield…