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
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
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Frank Opelka, MD, FACS, Medical Director for Quality and Health Policy with the American College of Surgeons, to understand how surgeons across the United States view
Suzanne Delbanco calls Rachel Brodie, Director of the Performance Information programs at Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) to discuss patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Listen in to learn how PROs work
Listen in to Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Health Practice at Accenture, as he discusses recent research on the associated costs of the United State’s
Suzanne Delbanco catches up with Sam Arsenault, Director of National Treatment Quality Initiatives for Shatterproof, on the latest milestones in the work to bring provider quality ratings into the substance
Listen in as Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chats all
Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco chats with Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, President and CEO of the Employers’ Forum of Indiana. They discuss one of the hottest studies in health care: the
Listen in as CPR’s Executive Director, Suzanne Delbanco, chats with Google’s Former Healthcare Delivery Benefits Manager, Rob Paczkowski. Just like the HR department of many employers, the benefits team at
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Jeffrey Davis, MD, MPH, Senior Health Management Consultant with Willis Towers Watson, about a rapidly expanding area of intrigue for employers: genetic testing. He breaks down
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
Suzanne Delbanco calls up Lisa Woods, Senior Director of Health Care Benefits at Walmart Stores, Inc., to discuss Walmart’s efforts to control costs and deliver high-value health care using a
Suzanne Delbanco checks in with Mike Stull, Chief Marketing Officer at Employers Health Coalition, to talk all things pharmacy. Listen in as Suzanne and Mike discuss what employers and health
Suzanne Delbanco, CPR’s Executive Director, checks in with Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer at Essentia Health, an integrated health system in the Midwest. Debbie and Suzanne discuss the definition
Suzanne Delbanco dials up Emily Transue, MD, Associate Medical Director for Clinical Quality and Care Transformation at the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). They discuss HCA’s shared decision making
Suzanne Delbanco dials up Ann Greiner, President and CEO of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), to discuss the patient centered medical home (PCMH) model. Ann shares where the PCMH
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
Suzanne calls Frederick Isasi, Executive Director of Families USA, to understand the aspects of today’s health care insurance landscape that are putting the greatest strain on families. They discuss prescription
