Reference-based pricing: 3 models that cut health care cost inflation at its roots
April 12, 2021
Reference-based models address the root cause of high health care costs: the prices. Studies of health care costs reaffirm the…
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Christopher Whaley on opening the black box of employer health care spending
March 16, 2021
Julianne McGarry catches up with Christopher Whaley, PhD, Policy Researcher at RAND Corporation and one of the lead authors of…
How Employers Can Benefit from the Digital Health Explosion
March 01, 2021
Ryan Olmstead, MPH, wrote this blog. If I’d only stuffed a dollar in a jar every time I heard of…
It’s ok to not be ok: Mitigating the long-term mental health impacts of the pandemic
February 16, 2021
It’s 8pm and, as a supervisor at a grocery store, you’re making sure all employees working the cash registers and…
Stephen Furia on Mount Sinai’s principles of success for direct to purchaser relationships
February 01, 2021
CPR’s Program Director, Andréa Caballero, chats with Stephen Furia, Senior Vice President, Population Health at Mount Sinai Health System, one…
CPR Library Chocolate Box
January 31, 2021
As you’ve heard from CPR’s Executive Director Suzanne Delbanco, our three 2021 priorities are to help purchasers stimulate a more…
Any Way the Wind Blows: The Future of Heath Care Payment Reform
January 19, 2021
What does the future hold for health care payment reform models? Julianne McGarry wrote this blog, which was originally published…
Peering into 2021: Our Priorities to Support Employers and Other Purchasers
January 04, 2021
Suzanne Delbanco, CPR’s Executive Director, wrote this blog, which was originally published in November 2020. 2020 didn’t turn out the…
CPR’s Top 5 Free Resources
December 21, 2020
CPR’s mission is to help employers and other health care purchasers get better value for their health care dollar. We…
What Xavier Becerra’s nomination as HHS Secretary could mean for employer-purchasers
December 07, 2020
As we learn that President-elect Biden has nominated Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health and Human Services, the United States…