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September 21, 2021 - October 5, 2021 Eastern
Q3 2021 Health Plan User Groups
CPR’s Members and Coalition Partner Members regularly meet with major national and regional health plans, allowing participants to align their expectations and plans an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers. In this Series of meetings, plans will share MSK program impact using one of CPR’s Reform Evaluation Frameworks and present on their MSK strategy. If you are a CPR Member and do not have the meeting invites on your calendar, please reach out to Ryan Olmstead, director of member services. Contact us if you are interested in learning more about CPR Membership.
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November 3, 2021 - November 18, 2021 Eastern
Q4 2021 Pharmacy Benefit Manager User Groups
CPR’s Members regularly meet with major pharmacy benefits managers, allowing participants to align their expectations and PBMs an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers. In this meeting series, PBMs will present their latest progress using CPR’s progress report and present on a topic Member interest. If you are a CPR Member and do not have the meeting invites on your calendar, please reach out to Ryan Olmstead, director of member services. Contact us if you are interested in learning more about CPR Membership.
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November 16, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Eastern
Health Policy Developments Impacting Employer-Purchasers with Suzanne Delbanco, Catalyst for Payment Reform, Katy Spangler, Spangler Strategies and Tracy Watts, Mercer
After a decade of pushing for greater transparency and payment reform in health care, employers and other health care purchasers need to know how the latest federal policy developments impact these efforts. Employers and other health care purchasers have pushed for over 10 years to have greater transparency into health care prices for themselves and their plan members. This push has made it from the commercial sector to state legislatures and now to federal law. But now that a federal law has passed, will we ever see it fully implemented? Few are fans of the practice of surprise...
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December 8, 2021 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern
Q4 2021 CPR Member Strategy Meeting
CPR Member Strategy Meetings offer CPR member organizations the opportunity to share and learn from one another and hear from other marketplace thought leaders. During these sessions, CPR members receive early access to CPR programming updates and the opportunity to offer perspective and shape CPR's agenda. If your organization is a CPR Member and you do not have the CPR Member Strategy invites on your calendar, please reach out to Ryan Olmstead, Director of Member Services. Contact us if you are interested in learning more about CPR Membership.
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January 27 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern
Data is the New Health Care Currency: Are Purchasers Getting Short-Changed?
JANUARY 27, 2022 @ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST EASTERN Health care data provide invaluable information to self-insured purchasers, helping them engineer, administer, and refine their benefits purchasing strategy. Unfortunately, purchasers experience challenges in accessing and using the data that they and their business associates require. As a result, purchasers remain stymied in their efforts to actualize obligations as Plan fiduciary. Over the past two years, Catalyst for Payment Reform gathered information from a diverse group of stakeholders – employer-purchasers, vendors, consultants, and even health plans – to discuss the purposes and challenges of data stewardship. Pursuant to these findings, CPR developed a...
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March 30 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern
Health Care Data: How to Assess whether Your TPA and Vendor Partners will Play Nice in the Sandbox
Employers and other health care purchasers: Have you struggled with obstacles and foot-dragging when you request data to serve your plan participant population? Consultants, Vendors and TPAs: are you tired of playing tug-o-war over accessing the data you need to serve your clients? If so, this webinar is for you. Over the past year, CPR has researched the barriers purchasers and their business associates encounter when they request data from a health plan or other vendor. We gathered information from a diverse group of stakeholders – employer-purchasers, vendors, consultants, and even health plans to inform a 360° view of data...
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April 14 - April 30 Eastern
Spring 2022 Webinar Series: Breaking Ground with Innovative Purchasers
CPR is hosting a FREE webinar series featuring innovative health purchasers. Sign up by clicking "Register" below! Each webinar will be recorded and distributed to all that RSVP, regardless of whether you attend. April 20, 2022 | 1pm - 2pm PT Join Jon Schloemer, Cargill's Senior Consultant, Health and Welfare Plans / North America, and Jeff Wells, Marathon's CEO and co-founder, as they discuss the successful partnership in their near-site health center program. More than 12,700 Cargill employees have access to incremental, accessible, and affordable healthcare -- a reality thanks to these health centers across the country. By supplementing existing...
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May 17 - June 1 Eastern
Q2 2022 Health Plan User Groups
Catalyst for Payment Reform’s Health Plan User Groups (HPUGs) offer a forum for a substantive and nutrient-rich two-way dialogue between CPR Members and Coalition Partner Members on a variety of current and high-priority topics. In this the Spring of 2022, plans will share how they measure the success of their High Performance Networks using a standardized tool and uniform set of metrics. The HPN Reform Evaluation Framework (or HPN REF) measures performance in terms of the difference in total cost of care, quality outcomes, changes in utilization, and member experience between an HPN and the health plan’s standard broad network. ...
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May 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern
Q2 2022 CPR Member Strategy Meeting
CPR Member Strategy Meetings offer CPR member organizations the opportunity to share and learn from one another and hear from other marketplace thought leaders. During these sessions, CPR members receive early access to CPR programming updates and the opportunity to offer perspective and shape CPR's agenda. If you are a CPR Member and do not have the meeting invites on your calendar, please reach out to Ryan Olmstead, Director of Member Services. Contact us if you are interested in learning more about CPR Membership.
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June 2 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern
2022 Aligned Sourcing Toolkit Webinar: The more we work together, the more we’ll achieve
June 2nd | 12pm - 1pm PDT It's that time of year again, and now more than ever employer-purchasers need to send a deliberate and direct message to the marketplace that they expect provider competition, more price and quality transparency, more reform in payment and care delivery, more innovative benefit and network design, more action in addressing health disparities, and better collaboration. It cannot be done alone. By sending a strategic and unified message, employer-purchasers multiply their strength. This session will orient you to this year's updates - the 2022 Health Plan Request for Information Questionnaire (RFI), the Model Contract...
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