Catalyst for Payment Reform

Events

High-Value Maternity Networks: Designing for quality, equity, and patient experience

A free 90-minute webinar to mark the release of the Building a High-Value Maternity Network Toolkit. Tune in to learn how the 32BJ Health Fund developed and launched its High-Value Maternity Network and accompanying Maternity Program in New York City and Northern New Jersey in July 2020. You’ll also hear a health system leader describe

Q1 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 monitor each health plan's progress toward payment and delivery reform. These "User Group" meetings also offer the health plans an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers, which include both current and prospective customers. In

The New Evidence Behind Direct-to-Employer Bundled Payments

Why a new Health Affairs study on bundled payments has purchasers talking.
Join CPR, a panel of purchaser representatives, and lead researcher, Christopher Whaley of the RAND Corporation for a free, 60-minute webinar exploring the first-ever independent evaluation of a direct-to-employer bundled payment program.

Q2 2021 Pharmacy Benefit Manager User Groups

CPR’s Members regularly meet with major pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), allowing participants to monitor each PBM's progress toward transparency and other reforms. The User Group meetings also offer the PBMs an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers, which include both current and prospective customers.  In this meeting series, PBMs will present their latest

Anchoring to Medicare: Can Reference Pricing Turn the Rising Tide of Health Care Costs?

Thursday, April 29 from 2pm-3:30pm EDT/ 11am-12:30pm PDT According to the Health Care Cost Institute, approximately 75% of the increase in per-person spending in the U.S. is explained by growth in prices for health care services, as opposed to increased utilization. Reference-based pricing presents a new opportunity for purchasers to attack health care cost inflation at

Q2 2021 Health Plan User Groups

CPR’s Members and Coalition Partner Members regularly meet with major national and regional health plans, allowing participants to monitor each health plan's progress toward payment and delivery reform. The User Group meetings also offer the health plans an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers, which include both current and prospective customers. In this

Aggregated Health Care Purchasing: Models for Success

Thursday, May 20 from 1pm-3pm EDT/ 10am-12pm PDT Frustrated by the continued erosion of health care affordability, some purchasers have taken matters into their own hands by pooling their volume of covered lives with other health care purchasers. There is a three decades-long history of purchasers banding together to aggregate their member volume to achieve

What’s Next? Purchaser Priorities with CPR and Willis Towers Watson

As the pandemic winds down in the U.S. with the availability of vaccines, employers and other health care purchasers are looking critically at their health plans, their benefits programs, and where their members are getting care. What's in store Attend this free webinar to learn how to address purchaser needs in payment reform, care delivery

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