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.
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.
Suzanne Delbanco interviews Ashok Subramanian, CEO and Founder of Centivo Health, an alternative Third-Party Administrator (TPA) that emphasizes value-based direct contracting and utilization of high-quality providers.
Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco connects with Alan Muney, MD, MHA, former Chief Medical Officer of Cigna, former CEO of Equity Healthcare, and current health care advisor to multiple venture equity firms. This interview is part of CPR’s current work to understand whether group purchasing efforts can secure better health care value for employer-purchasers.
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Anna Sinaiko, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Anna Sinaiko studies patient or individual decision making in health care settings, a concept known as “consumerism” in health care.
Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Peter Lee, Executive Director of Covered California Health Exchange, to discover how Covered California plans to accelerate positive change in the health care system. Hint: Alignment with other large health care purchasers is at the center.
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Zach Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Zach Brown used a quasi-experimental approach to analyze the impact of New Hampshire’s price
Bob Galvin MD, Operating Partner of Equity Healthcare and former Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer for General Electric, suggests that the novel coronavirus paired with a challenging economy offers employer-purchasers a powerful inflection point.
Recorded on February 28, 2020. Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Marilyn Bartlett, CPA, CMA, CFM, Senior Policy Fellow with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP). Prior
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
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
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
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
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
