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Understanding Payment Reform
If you know the basics of payment reform and why it's important to change the way that providers are paid, learn more about the nuances of payment reform, such as why the context in which it is implemented is important and potential operational challenges. -
Pairing Payment Reforms and Benefit Design
If you know the basics of payment reform and benefit design, you should start to think about how incentives on the provider side and the consumer side can work together to improve how care is delivered. Check out this Get Started Brief to start thinking about how to align these incentives. -
Get Started with Aligned Sourcing
When employers and other health care purchasers try to push the market to make it function in a better way, they have a better chance when they send consistent signals to their health plans. Learn more about why aligned sourcing is important and what tools purchasers can use to move the market. -
Telehealth
Telehealth allows patients to interact with the doctors without going into the provider's office. Telehealth is a low-cost and high-value health benefit offering that purchasers are incorporating into their employee benefits across the country. Learn more about telehealth and its potential value for health care purchasers. -
Market Competition
Market competition among both health care providers and health plans is critical for innovations in the cost and quality of care. Learn why employers should care, about the current trends, and a few tips to ensure that there is competition in the marketplace. -
Specialty Pharmacy
Specialty pharmaceuticals are extremely high-cost medications, which are the fastest growing sector of pharmacy spending today. Learn more about these high cost drugs and strategies that stakeholders can look to in an attempt to curb the high costs of specialty pharmaceuticals. -
Market Dynamics
While national payment and delivery reform efforts are afoot, a one size-fits-all solution is not likely to succeed across markets. Health care markets vary based on the dynamics of the key players (health plans, providers, and purchasers). Learn more about how market dynamics can impact reform efforts. -
Quality Measures That Matter
The quality of health care varies significantly across the nation. Quality measures were developed to assess whether providers were delivering appropriate care and their patients were having positive outcomes as a result. However, now there are so many measures that it's difficult to know which ones matter the most. CPR conducted an analysis to identify the 30 most relevant measures for employers and health care purchasers. Get Started with the Quality Measures that Matter. -
Evaluating Transparency Tools
The price and quality of health care can be displayed in a price and quality transparency tool. However, not all transparency tools have the key functionalities to make shopping for care easy for consumers. Learn about the key capabilities a transparency tool should possess.