Collectively, state Medicaid agencies cover 74 million Americans, more than any other insurer by a longshot, including Medicare. To manage constrained budgets, growing enrollment numbers, and high utilization by high
What if people with substance use disorder could have a one-stop-shop for finding high-quality treatment options, including a list of providers in their health plan network? Suzanne checks in with
If you blinked on February 20 of this year, you may have missed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to loosen restrictions on
Suzanne catches up with Niall Brennan, President and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), to ask the tough questions on price and utilization data for employee-sponsored health care.
Suzanne calls John Bass, Founder and CEO of Hashed Health, who shares his insights on how and why blockchain can reduce costs, create trust, and improve competition in health care. Listen
CPR’s senior project and research manager, Roz Murray, calls Jaime King, Associate Dean and Faculty Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Science, Law and Health Policy, to learn about
Data is beautiful, even when you’re looking at a monstrous thing like the $2.10 trillion dollars spent in U.S. health care in 2013. If you don’t believe me, check out
As I sat down to write this, I took an inventory of all of the people I know who have had total hip or knee replacement procedures. It’s a lot
Since the early days, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) made it part of our mission to spur and track the growth of payment reform. And boy have we seen it
Suzanne speaks with Malini Nijagal, MD, MPH, of UCSF to learn what motivated her new call to action in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The April 2018 publication outlines how
In February of this year, Legislators introduced the Chronic Disease Management Act of 2018. If passed, the act would amend IRS requirements for all individuals with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs)
Can health care take a page from SpotHero’s playbook? CPR’s office is in the city of Berkeley, California, near the larger urban centers Oakland and San Francisco, and between local
Suzanne speaks with Larry Becker, former Director of Strategic Partnerships and Alliances for Xerox Corporation, and Jean Slutsky, Chief Engagement and Dissemination Officer at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI),
Why is America’s most common health care challenge the one we are least likely to talk openly about? Ryan Olmstead discusses mental health challenges with Mary Kay O’Neill, MD, MBA,
If you’ve played a role in managing health care benefits in recent years, you’re well aware that “wellness” has been a strategy du jour. Most health and wellness programs adopt
Listen in as Suzanne shares an intimate conversation with a health policy expert who has survived an opioid addiction. Though anonymous, her story shines a bright and personal light on
CPR’s Director of Member Services, Ryan Olmstead, chats with Andreas Mang, Chief Operating and Innovation Officer at Equity Healthcare (EH). Learn how EH broke new ground in streamlining care navigation,
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
