Julianne McGarry catches up with Christopher Whaley, PhD, Policy Researcher at RAND Corporation and one of the lead authors of the RAND’s Hospital Price Transparency Study. The
The digital health explosion has left many employers wondering how to prioritize which bright, shiny new solution to chase, how to discern which solutions are really fool’s gold, and how to get the most from an existing program.
It’s 8pm and, as a supervisor at a grocery store, you’re making sure all employees working the cash registers and self-check-out stands are ready to change shifts and go on
CPR’s Program Director, Andréa Caballero, chats with Stephen Furia, Senior Vice President, Population Health at Mount Sinai Health System. The Population Health division is the business unit within Mount Sinai that works directly with employers and other health care purchasers, providing an array of services including primary care focused near-site health centers, Centers of Excellence arrangements for specialty care, executive health programs, and, more recently, assisting employers in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This 10-day daily email series will guide you around CPR’s resource library so you’ll see the range of topics and product types that we cover. Introducing the “CPR Library Chocolate Box” in the form of a free treat, aka CPR resource, every day leading up to Valentine’s Day.
A tornado is what comes to mind when thinking about the future of alternative payment models (APMs). It’s not because the health care ecosystem (let alone APMs) are poised to wreak horrific destruction upon us all. Rather, the tornado analogy derives from the powerful and influential forces blowing the APM movement in multiple and conflicting directions.
Catalyst for Payment Reform will focus on three strategies in 2021.
The first is to help purchasers stimulate a more competitive and cost-conscious health care system.
CPR’s mission is to help employers and other health care purchasers get better value for their health care dollar. We publish numerous free resources intended to benefit stakeholders across the
During the economic recovery, we need competitive health care markets as a counterweight against health care price inflation. With the economy struggling, employers and other health care purchasers have less money than ever to spend on health care and need every tool at their disposal to keep expenses under control. Employers across the country will be watching to see if the Sutter case will serve as a warning to other dominant providers, or if anticompetitive behavior will be given a COVID hall pass. As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Becerra’s understanding of these dynamics will inevitably shape his work on health care delivery and payment reforms, policies regarding transparency of price and quality information, and much more.
CPR is grateful to both our guests and audience who have contributed to our Listening In (with Permission) podcast series. Since CPR launched the podcast in the spring of 2017,
According to the CDC, 51.8% of Americans age 6 months or older received the flu vaccine during the 2019-2020 flu season; yet, the CDC recommends all individuals in this age range get the vaccine, with limited exceptions. Consumers regularly get the vaccine as part of a primary care visit or at their local pharmacy. In prior years, employers would offer their employees, and sometimes dependents, the added convenience of getting their flu vaccine on-site. This year, however, many employers have limited or eliminated any widescale effort to offer on-site flu vaccines. This means that some consumers will have to seek out their vaccine elsewhere. So, what’s the appropriate site of care for the flu vaccine?
The onset of COVID-19 brought new challenges to San Francisco Health Service System (SFHSS) in its mission to preserve and improve sustainable, high quality health benefits for City and County employees, retirees, and their dependents.
Andréa Caballero, MPA, speaks with Linda Schwimmer, JD, President and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (Quality Institute) to learn about a pressing issue: the health of New Jersey’s Small Group Insurance Market.
When the health care payment reform movement began, the first thing CPR saw was an uptick in pay for performance. Because payers had some experience with providing bonuses to health
Would 2020 be the year that health care purchasers finally abandon broad PPO networks in favor of curated solutions like narrow, tiered or high-performance networks? Julianne McGarry review’s KFF’s 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey to find out.
The economic downturn has only heightened the need for Colorado employers to implement high-value health care purchasing strategies. This is challenging due to Colorado’s market dynamics. We decided to revisit the recommendations in CPR’s Denver-Area Market Assessment Report to explore how Colorado can overcome the stalemate with large health systems.
Simply put, it’s not easy for employer-purchasers to put the RAND study results to use. That’s why Employers’ Forum of Indiana asked CPR to help build out its Employer Price Transparency Project website as a companion to help guide more employers on taking action.
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Rick Abbott, VP of Product and Market Solutions at Premera Blue Cross. Suzanne and Rick discuss if narrow networks, also known as high-performance networks, represent a viable way to lower prices in the employer-sponsored health insurance market.
“What I see now is confusion, disorientation, uncertainty, and anxiety. That creates an opportunity, but it doesn’t provide a direction.” – David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund, speaking at
Suzanne Delbanco connects with Chris Cigarran, CEO of Imagine Health, an alternative health plan offering curated provider networks in select markets across the country. Prior to Imagine Health, Chris built the employer and government sales division of a wellness company and has also served as Chief HR Officer.
