MYTHBUSTER: Fee-for-service has no place
May 30, 2017
Raise your hand if you agree with this statement—one of the flaws in the United States health care system is our method of paying for care. We pay doctors for
Jay Want on the provider perspective
May 29, 2017
Listen to Suzanne dial up Jay Want, General Internist, Executive Director for the Peterson Center on Healthcare and formerly the Chief Medical Officer at the Center for Improving Value in Health Care,
Mental Health Awareness Month–Continue the Conversation!
May 23, 2017
Mental Health Awareness month is coming to a close. Did you do anything to raise awareness? An estimated 46 percent of adults experience mental illness or a substance abuse disorder
Mary Bradley on how employers can work together
May 22, 2017
Listen to Suzanne chat with Mary Bradley, Director of Healthcare Strategy at Pitney Bowes, about how and why she works with other employers to get stronger and smarter in her
Throwback Thursday: Quality Measures That Still Matter
May 18, 2017
Over the last seventeen years, one of the questions I have heard most often from employers and other big purchasers of health care is “Which quality measures matter the most?”
MYTHBUSTER: We’ve Solved the Problem of Lack of Transparency
May 16, 2017
Back in 2012, CPR issued a statement on behalf of our purchaser members and other health care organizations affirming that information about the price and quality of health care services
Jeff Selberg on the Peterson Foundation’s ambitions
May 15, 2017
Suzanne Delbanco, Executive Director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, dials up Jeff Selberg, Executive Director of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, to chat about the foundation’s goal to make health
The Perks of Having a CPR Account
May 10, 2017
Open enrollment showers follow spring flowers? Perhaps a lesser known idiom, but if you are a benefits manager or HR professional working to provide health care to a population, you
Peter Lee on Covered California’s benefit design strategy
May 9, 2017
Listen in as Suzanne dials up Peter Lee, Executive Director of Covered California. He runs one of the country’s most successful state exchanges, putting private sector purchasing strategies to use
MYTHBUSTER: Consumers won’t choose insurance products that restrict choice
May 8, 2017
Some benefit designs are more intuitive than others. When considering the range of complex benefit designs employers and other health care purchasers use to steer their employees to high-value care,
Are Centers of Excellence a Win-Win?
May 4, 2017
Dorothy Parker once said, “There is no cure for curiosity.” Unless you’re curious about Centers of Excellence, that is! So, what’s a center of excellence? Let’s start with the basics.
Bob Galvin on why he founded CPR
May 1, 2017
Listen in as Suzanne dials up Bob Galvin, Chief Executive Officer of Equity Healthcare and one of Catalyst for Payment Reform’s founders, to discuss why he founded CPR, where we