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…
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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…
2020: CPR’s Agenda to Reform the Health Care Marketplace for Employers-Purchasers and their Plan Members
January 07, 2020
This is going to be quite a year. At CPR we’ve fastened our seatbelts for full speed. The core of…
CPR’s Top 5 Free Resources
December 23, 2019
CPR’s mission is to help employers and other health care purchasers get better value for their health care dollar. While…
Emily Chen of MediQuire on using data in direct contracting arrangements
December 17, 2019
CPR’s Program Director, Andréa Caballero, calls up MediQuire’s CEO, Emily Chen, to learn why purchasers are choosing to directly contract…