Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco dials up Mike Thompson, President and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, to get his two cents on the evolution of consumerism
One year ago, CPR highlighted the importance of shaping health care payment and delivery reforms to the local market based, in part, on the relative position of key stakeholders—health plans,
If you’re an HR or health benefits manager, Catalyst for Payment Reform is on a mission to empower you to take the next step in your career. We know you
Suzanne Delbanco dials up Jen Benz, founder and CEO of Benz Communications, to tackle a range of topics related to employee benefits communication, including personalized messaging, technology trends, privacy concerns,
Everyone knows how this story goes: You’re not feeling well and decide you need to see a doctor. You call up your doctor’s office, make an appointment, take time off
We know employers and other health care purchasers have a lot on their minds. The cost of specialty pharmaceuticals seems ever increasing and the new political health care environment is
Listen as Suzanne calls Vince Kerr, previously the President of Care Solutions, National Accounts at UnitedHealthcare, to discuss how employers and other health care purchasers can better utilize their health insurance plan
We’re going to find out. If you’ve seen any of our Scorecards on Payment Reform, you know that CPR has a history of tracking our country’s progress on health care payment
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
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 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
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
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?”
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
