The major problem holding back employers: Data
June 07, 2021
Introducing CPR’s data series and other initiatives to support employer-purchasers in accessing the data they need for high-value health care…
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Thi Montalvo on the challenges employers face in using their health benefits data
June 07, 2021
Suzanne Delbanco talks with Thi Montalvo, Health Analytics Practice Leader – Health and Benefits for Willis Towers Watson. In her…
Go Ahead, Ask us Anything… About Reference-Based Pricing
May 25, 2021
Improving health care affordability is a top priority for employers and other health care purchasers across the country. But navigating…
CJ Stimson on Improving Maternity Care for Nashville’s Public Schools through Bundled Payment
May 17, 2021
Suzanne Delbanco catches up with CJ Stimson, MD, JD, the Senior Vice President of Value Transformation at Vanderbilt University Medical…
Nathan Counts on what it’s like to buy health care for 1 in every 300 Americans
April 19, 2021
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Nathan Counts, a seasoned health benefits professional who recently joined Amtrak as Head of Total Rewards.…
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…
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…