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April 28, 2020
Mother’s Day is around the corner, and one of the greatest gifts the United States can give to mothers is…
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Bob Galvin on what COVID-19 means for health care purchasers
April 28, 2020
Listen in as CPR’s Executive Director, Suzanne Delbanco, dials up Bob Galvin, MD, Operating Partner of Equity Healthcare and former…
If Tools Could Talk: Spotlight on the Evaluating Mental Health Solutions Toolkit
April 20, 2020
For the past three years, Suzanne Delbanco and other CPR staff have interviewed health care thought leaders as part of…
Marilyn Bartlett on Montana’s “Medicare Plus” contracting strategy
March 31, 2020
Recorded on February 28, 2020. Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Marilyn Bartlett, CPA, CMA, CFM, Senior Policy Fellow…
Michael Chernew on evaluating APMs in terms of sustainability
March 10, 2020
Suzanne calls Michael Chernew, PhD, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at…
Scott Weingarten on reducing low-value care with EHRs
March 03, 2020
Can Electronic Health Records (EHRs) help reduce unnecessary health care spending? Suzanne speaks with Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, consultant to…
Why many employers have primary care on their mind
March 02, 2020
Last year, Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway/ JP Morgan Chase’s Haven Healthcare made a splash across the health care industry, not only for the…
Christopher Koller on using insurance levers to bring down hospital prices
February 25, 2020
Suzanne Delbanco calls Christopher Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, to discuss top strategies for containing health care cost…
A Blueprint for Action
January 28, 2020
In the commercial market, health plans negotiate rates on behalf of health care purchasers; they use purchasers’ collective volume to…
Mythbuster: Direct contracting will never become a real trend.
January 14, 2020
The health care marketplace continues to evolve, as health care organizations consolidate and experiment with new value-oriented models. As these…