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SUMMARY:Partnering for High-Value Care
DESCRIPTION:Delivering high-quality care in a cost-effective way is a shared goal among many in the health care industry. Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models aim to do exactly that through coordinated care across providers and payers. \nBlue Shield of California’s ACO program is nationally recognized and one of the country’s longest standing programs. They have partnered with the San Francisco Health Service System (SFHSS) to deliver low-cost\, high-quality care in San Francisco. This partnership is the subject of a recent study by researchers at the University of California – Berkeley (UC Berkeley)\, with support from Catalyst for Payment Reform via a grant from the Peterson Center on Healthcare\, which was recently published by Health Services Research \n \nOn Wednesday\, May 17\, join experts from SFHSS\, Blue Shield of California\, UC Berkeley\, and Catalyst for Payment Reform to learn about the ACO partnership between Blue Shield and SFHSS and see the results from the UC Berkeley study. Attendees will learn about the key features of an ACO program that creates better care experiences for patients\, while saving costs. \n\n \n 
URL:https://www.catalyze.org/event/partnering-for-high-value-care/
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SUMMARY:Webinar #4: Policies for Low-Intervention States & Policies to Protect Competition
DESCRIPTION:  \nMarket-based interventions have provided insufficient relief from rising commercial health care costs. As a result\, states have a unique and pressing opportunity to enact policies that place downward pressure on unit prices and rebalance market power toward health care purchasers and consumers. \nSome states may lack the resources to pursue complex policy interventions; others may operate in political climates inhospitable to government intervention; a small few may have health care markets that function reasonably well and don’t require major fixes. \nThis webinar\, the final in the series of four\, focuses on policies\, which\, if plotted on a spectrum of “degree of intervention” would land on the lower end of the scale. It also offers strategies for states to protect the erosion of market competition by bolstering and broadening antitrust oversight. Featuring Josephine Porter of the Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire and Jaime S. King\, the John and Marylyn Mayo Chair in Health Law at the University of Auckland. \nCPR’s white paper profiles five scenario-based policy menus\, designed to help state policymakers\, advocacy organizations and other stakeholders navigate through the multitude of policy intervention options and identify those best suited to meet their unique circumstances. \nDownload the FREE report here. \nDownload the corresponding issue briefs here\, this session will cover Issue Brief #3 and #6. \nRegister today. \n\n \n 
URL:https://www.catalyze.org/event/policies-for-low-intervention-states-policies-to-protect-competition/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Policy
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SUMMARY:Webinar #3: Policies to Regulate Prices
DESCRIPTION:Market-based interventions have provided insufficient relief from rising commercial health care costs. As a result\, states have a unique and pressing opportunity to enact policies that place downward pressure on unit prices and rebalance market power toward health care purchasers and consumers. \nFor some states\, the best and most viable path to improving health care affordability may be the direct route: regulating provider prices. That doesn’t mean that the only option on the table is to exert complete price control through all-payer rate setting. States might alternatively consider establishing price caps\, or applying controls to select sites of service\, markets or circumstances. By placing a selective clamp on health care prices\, policymakers and regulators hope to create an environment where negotiations between payers and providers proceed on a more even playing field. \nThis webinar\, third in a series of four\, focuses on policies for price regulation\, organized according to the degree of state oversight\, resources and sophistication required to administer them. \nFeaturing Anna Doar Sinaiko\, Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy at Harvard University\, Robert A. Berenson\, an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center\, and Robert Murray\, President of Global Health Payment\, LLC. \nCPR’s white paper profiles five scenario-based policy menus\, designed to help state policymakers\, advocacy organizations and other stakeholders navigate through the multitude of policy intervention options and identify those best suited to meet their unique circumstances. \nDownload the FREE report here. \nDownload the corresponding issue briefs here\, this session will cover Issue Brief #5. \nRegister today. \n\n \n 
URL:https://www.catalyze.org/event/policies-to-regulate-prices/
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CATEGORIES:Policy
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SUMMARY:Webinar #2: Policies to Prevent/Punish Bad Behavior and Empower Market Balancers
DESCRIPTION:Market-based interventions have provided insufficient relief from rising commercial health care costs. As a result\, states have a unique and pressing opportunity to enact policies that place downward pressure on unit prices and rebalance market power toward health care purchasers and consumers. \nIn consolidated health care markets (which comprise 90% service areas) powerful health systems can leverage their market power to further stymie competition and skew the playing field. This webinar\, second in a series of four\, focuses on policies to prevent would-be monopolists from engaging in anticompetitive behavior\, impose penalties on those that continue to do so\, and protect and preserve the independent actors that remain. \nFeaturing Aditi P. Sen\, Director of Research and Policy at the Health Care Cost Institute and Erin Fuse Brown\, the Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law\, Health\, and Society at Georgia State University. \nCPR’s white paper profiles five scenario-based policy menus\, designed to help state policymakers\, advocacy organizations and other stakeholders navigate through the multitude of policy intervention options and identify those best suited to meet their unique circumstances. \nDownload the FREE report here. \nDownload the corresponding issue briefs here\, this session will cover Issue Briefs #2 and #4. \n Register Today. \n\n \n 
URL:https://www.catalyze.org/event/policies-to-defang-bad-actors-and-empower-market-balancers/
CATEGORIES:Policy
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SUMMARY:Webinar #1: The Case for Multifaceted Public Policy Intervention
DESCRIPTION:NEWSFLASH: HEALTH CARE MARKETS ARE BROKEN \nEveryone is tired of hearing about how broken our health care system is. We know: prices keep rising\, hospitals keep merging\, quality falters\, disparities widen. And over the next few years\, the outlook remains bleak. Experts predict that health care premiums will jump 5.6 percentage points over the previous year. \nIt’s become painfully apparent that well-meaning\, market-based interventions (price transparency\, consumer-driven health plans\, innovative care delivery models\, even provider payment reform) cannot exert enough pressure to right this capsized ship. At this level of dysfunction\, we need a more powerful force to referee the marketplace and level the playing field.  We need government intervention – specifically\, state government intervention. \n\nCPR’s white paper profiles five scenario-based policy menus\, designed to help state policymakers\, advocacy organizations and other stakeholders navigate through the multitude of policy intervention options and identify those best suited to meet their unique circumstances. \nDownload the FREE report here. \n\nThis Webinar\, the first of four\, lays out the case for combinations of state policy interventions designed to place downward pressure on commercial prices and rebalance market power. \nDownload the corresponding issue briefs here\, this session will cover Issue Brief #1. \nRegister today. \n\n \n 
URL:https://www.catalyze.org/event/the-case-for-multifaceted-public-policy-intervention/
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