Suzanne calls Kelsey Brykman, Senior Program Officer at the Center for Health Care Strategies to talk about the intersection of primary care and health equity.
Suzanne calls Kelsey Brykman, Senior Program Officer at the Center for Health Care Strategies to talk about the intersection of primary care and health equity.
Suzanne calls Kelsey Brykman, Senior Program Officer at the Center for Health Care Strategies to talk about the intersection of primary care and health equity.
New Morgan Health-NORC analysis reveals important insights about the largest source of health insurance coverage in the U.S. — employer-sponsored insurance. The study is a snapshot of health outcomes and
Suzanne calls Rachael Jones, Senior Vice President, Performance Analytics & Quality at Cotiviti, to discuss health equity and what employers and other health care purchasers can do to advance it.
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Suzanne calls up Bob Galvin, CMO of Blackstone and chairman of CPR’s board of directors, to follow up on their previous discussion on the state of payment reform. So where are we at? Progress is slow, yet steady — we’ve had rain delays, changing pitchers, changing managers, but the game isn’t over.
In full disclosure, at the moment, I (thankfully) do not need knee surgery. But I might easily need it someday. I run a lot, my neighborhood is very hilly, and
Being a member of CPR is about so much more than being a leading national voice in the fight for more access, equity, and quality in health care. It’s about being a part of a team who band together to strategically push the health care system. How do members achieve this? CPR creates the space where members can engage with experts, health plans, and CPR staff to incubate trailblazing health care strategy.
Suzanne calls up Dr. Jeff Wells, CEO and co-founder of Marathon Health to talk about advanced primary care models and how it fits in with onsite and near-site clinic, and virtual care.
Suzanne and Jeff dive into the term advanced primary care and how it differs from prior terminology used to describe high-value primary care strategies. In addition, they discuss why there is a lack of primary care providers compared to most other developed countries and what the future looks like for primary care.
At the risk of appearing tone deaf, we think it’s time for employers and other health care purchasers to give high-performance network plans a serious look. Yes, we realize employers
Suzanne calls up Peter Lee, the former Executive Director of Covered California to talk about the last twenty years in health care reform. He explains how many of the payment reforms executed in the commercial space have really been on the margins, and many employees are spending more for worse care than ever before.
So what’s the problem? Lack of real alignment on measures, and not enough dollars at play at the right level. “We focused a lot on provider level payment…not at the health plans. Health care is a team sport, if we aren’t making the quarterback of the team, the health plans, accountable for quality and value, nothing is going to happen.”
Suzanne calls up Aneesh Chopra, Co-Founder and President of CareJourney, to talk about the current state of health care transparency policy and how the US is faring. So, what’s the mood on current regulations and government oversight? “The general feeling in the field is one of skepticism,” says Chopra, but he’s much more bullish on it. According to Chopra, based on research CareJourney conducted in partnership with Turquoise Health, “two-thirds of hospitals as of the spring of 2022…actually have meaningful, high-quality transparency data.” The question now is are we going to see this information put to use?
If you go to any job search site and look at open positions for a Director of Benefits, you’ll likely see common themes: the ideal candidate will develop and implement
Suzanne calls Alice Hm Chen, Chief Medical Officer at Covered California, and asks about her work in quality measurement and health equity.
As the nation’s largest state-based health insurance exchange, how is Covered California thinking about its responsibility to deliver equitable care to its member population?
“I think a key thing for everyone to embrace is, equity is quality…you won’t get to true high-quality care unless you are addressing equity.”
Purchasers, brace yourselves for a radical idea: the time has come for state governments to restore balance, competition and affordability to health care markets. Recognizing that regulation is usually considered
If ever there was a worldwide phenomenon that perfectly captured the concept of “two sides of the same coin” it would be COVID-19. The pandemic exploited the weaknesses of our
Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Roslyn (Roz) Murray, a doctoral candidate at The University of Michigan School of Public Health and former Catalyst for Payment Reform employee.
Roz delves into her first peer-reviewed paper in Health Affairs, which concludes that the evidence on commercial value-based payment models is mixed. This is the first systemic review of the quality, spending, and utilization effects of commercial models, extracting results from fifty-nine studies.
Suzanne and Roz dive into why there is such little research in the commercial sector on value-based payment and compare Roz’s findings to research done in the public sector.
Catalyst for Payment Reform, like many employers or teams, has operated in a fully remote work environment since the start of the pandemic. Last week, our team had our first
April 11-17 is Black Maternal Health Week, which shines a spotlight on the disproportionately poor maternal health care and health outcomes Black mothers experience. While these outcomes are the proof,
