Are you surprised to know that pharmacy costs are actually comparable to inpatient hospital spend? After all, pharmacy spend eats up 20 cents for every health care dollar a purchaser
Suzanne Delbanco checks in with Mike Stull, Chief Marketing Officer at Employers Health Coalition, to talk all things pharmacy. Listen in as Suzanne and Mike discuss what employers and health
Suzanne Delbanco, CPR’s Executive Director, checks in with Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer at Essentia Health, an integrated health system in the Midwest. Debbie and Suzanne discuss the definition
A new year always offers a chance for fresh perspective. Keeping the pulse on CPR’s leading edge employer-purchaser members, I truly sense that we are entering an era in which
As the availability and utility of big data continues to grow by the day, Catalyst for Payment Reform has set out to better understand how employers are using data to
2018 was a great year for health tech startups. According to Rock Health, venture capitalists invested in over 290 companies, giving a total of 6.8 billion dollars toward all aspects
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but
Suzanne Delbanco dials up Emily Transue, MD, Associate Medical Director for Clinical Quality and Care Transformation at the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). They discuss HCA’s shared decision making
Climate change is the greatest health concern of the 21stcentury. It threatens our national and global political, economic and social stability. It threatens the very existence of human life. Just
Suzanne Delbanco dials up Ann Greiner, President and CEO of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), to discuss the patient centered medical home (PCMH) model. Ann shares where the PCMH
Over the last several years, of all efforts to reform care delivery, health plans most prolifically adopted and implemented accountable care organizations (ACOs). As of August 2018, there were 1,011
Suzanne Delbanco checks in with David Schleifer, Ph.D.,Vice President and Director of Research at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and public engagement organization that works to strengthen democracy and
Suzanne calls Frederick Isasi, Executive Director of Families USA, to understand the aspects of today’s health care insurance landscape that are putting the greatest strain on families. They discuss prescription
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, once again Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2018 annual survey of employers demonstrated how health care costs in the United States continue to
Employers are getting increasingly creative when it comes to health care coverage. Whether that means covering benefits on the cutting edge of medical care or figuring out ways to
Suzanne Delbanco calls Mai Pham, MD, Vice President of Provider Alignment Solutions at Anthem Inc., and former Chief Innovation Officer at CMMI, to discuss the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. They
More than 1.6 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer each year. These diagnoses led to over 600,000 deaths in 2016 alone. Put another way, 38.4% of American men and women
Over the past several years, many large self-funded employers have been implementing value-oriented strategies in an attempt to bend the rising cost curve and improve care for their populations. Large
Suzanne dials up her provider payment “guru”- Bob Berenson of the Urban Institute. Bob draws on his 20 years experience as an internal medicine doctor to answer Suzanne’s questions about
Thinking about offering CDHPs? Read my story first. Looking back on open enrollment last year, I can see that my choice to enroll in a high-deductible health plan – also
