Health equity provides the principles and framework to address the maternal health disparity crisis in the U.S. The premise is simple: By improving care for those most likely to face poor outcomes, stakeholders can ensure that the health system is preventing poor outcomes for all patients.
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.
California is leading the charge to defy the distressing maternal mortality trends nationwide. While nationally the rate of maternal deaths rates rose from 2006-2013, California achieved a 55 percent reduction.
Lea Tessitore calls up George Schwartz to learn more about how palliative care positively impacted his and his late wife Judy’s experiences dealing with serious illness. After Judy was diagnosed
The baby boomers are aging the United States’ population at an unprecedented rate. Some are calling it the Silver Tsunami. Approximately 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day and, by
Are you surprised to know that pharmacy costs are actually comparable to inpatient hospital spend? After all, pharmacy spend eats up 20 cents for every health care dollar a purchaser
Suzanne Delbanco checks in with David Schleifer, Ph.D.,Vice President and Director of Research at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and public engagement organization that works to strengthen democracy and
More than 1.6 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer each year. These diagnoses led to over 600,000 deaths in 2016 alone. Put another way, 38.4% of American men and women
Catalyst for Payment Reform has teamed up with The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) to help make employers and other health care purchasers aware of the opportunities to get
Suzanne speaks with Malini Nijagal, MD, MPH, of UCSF to learn what motivated her new call to action in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The April 2018 publication outlines how
Suzanne dials up Farzad Mostashari, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aledade, an innovative organization with the mission to support primary care providers (PCPs) in the shift to value-based payment.
What do patients think makes for high-quality care? This is the question that the Public Agenda’s July 2017 report “Qualities That Matter: Public Perceptions of Quality in Diabetes Care, Joint
Have we made headway in addressing the quality of maternity care, or haven’t we? Suzanne calls Elliott Main, obstetrician and Medical Director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC),
Suzanne talks to Diane Meier, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) about a specialty that is not getting the attention it deserves yet–palliative care. Learn what it
In CPR’s column in Health Affairs last September, Suzanne and experts, Malini Nijagal and Jeff Levin-Scherz, highlighted how efforts to improve the rate of cesarean sections in the U.S have stagnated.
Because CPR typically works with employers seeking to improve the value of the health care they buy for an employee population, we tend to focus on cost drivers impacting the
Listen as Suzanne calls Dr. Neel Shah, Obstetrician and Professor of Obstetrics at Harvard Medical School, to learn about the issues surrounding maternity care in the United States and what opportunities
We all know that the U.S. health care system needs fixing, especially when it comes to cost and access, but many of us still hold on to the notion that
Take this special opportunity to listen to Suzanne talk to her father Tom Delbanco, MD, Professor at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of OpenNotes. He discusses his efforts break down
