Suzanne calls Michael Chernew, PhD, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. They discuss his December 2019 publication in
Amazon is far from alone as an employer interested in rolling out a primary care strategy for their plan members. CPR is ready to help employer-purchasers understand the latest evidence on high-value primary care and the dynamic primary care marketplace.
Can Electronic Health Records (EHRs) help reduce unnecessary health care spending? Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, consultant to the CEO at Cedars-Sinai and Professor of Medicine, and former Senior Vice President at Cedars-Sinai.
Suzanne Delbanco calls Christopher Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, to discuss top strategies for containing health care cost growth. They discuss the insurance rate review process that Rhode
In the commercial market, health plans negotiate rates on behalf of health care purchasers; they use purchasers’ collective volume to command better value for our health care dollars – or
The health care marketplace continues to evolve, as health care organizations consolidate and experiment with new value-oriented models. As these new strategies emerge to drive high-value purchasing, there has been
This is going to be quite a year. At CPR we’ve fastened our seatbelts for full speed. The core of what we do remains the same: we are pushing for
Tune in to hear from Mediquire’s CEO, Emily Chen, on using data in direct contracting arrangements between employers (and other health care purchasers) and providers
Listen in as CPR’s Director of Projects & Research, Julianne McGarry, checks in with Beth Waldman, JD, MPH, Senior Consultant with Bailit Health. Beth Waldman is one of the leading
Medicaid Managed Care is a fascinating and important laboratory for health care payment innovation and reform.
Robert Smith, Executive Director of the Colorado Business Group (CBGH) on Health, checks in with Suzanne Delbanco on what’s new in Colorado’s capitol since CPR and CBGH released the Denver-Area
Price transparency is not one-size-fits-all. The optimal price information for a patient is different from the price transparency a physician would find useful and different, too, from what an employer-purchaser
Data warehouse and analytics vendors are important partners for the employers and other health care purchasers who self-fund health care coverage for their employees and their dependents. A data warehouse
How and why are social determinants of health programs making their way into the Medicaid managed care realm? To find out, Suzanne Delbanco calls Tricia McGinnis, MPP, MPH, Executive Vice
Listen in as Mark Fendrick, Director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a practicing general internist, provides an overview of the new developments in the
Listen in to Brooks Daverman, Deputy Director of TennCare (Tennessee’s Medicaid program), debate Catalyst for Payment Reform’s Suzanne Delbanco on the need for standard bundled payment definitions. They draw on
Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco calls Cheryl DeMars, President & CEO of The Alliance – a cooperative of 240 self-funded employers pooling their purchasing power to control costs and improve
Unpacking the complexity of high-performance network design The National Business Group on Health (NBGH) predicted that by 2018 a staggering 61% of employers would offer narrow or high-performance networks (HPNs).
Listen in as Trent Haywood, MD, JD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, outlines key initiatives and goals for addressing social determinants
Last week, we told you about a $4,999 surprise bill. I didn’t have a $4,999 surprise, but it was close. At 30 years old, I had a tonsillectomy. I was
