Introducing new tools from CPR to standardize the evaluations of Centers of Excellence, High Performance Networks, Reference Based Pricing programs, Bundled Payments. Each tool is tailored to measure relevant program performance in terms of cost of care savings, quality outcomes, changes in utilization, and member experience.
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Anna Sinaiko, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Anna Sinaiko studies patient or individual decision making in health care settings, a concept known as “consumerism” in health care.
Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Peter Lee, Executive Director of Covered California Health Exchange, to discover how Covered California plans to accelerate positive change in the health care system. Hint: Alignment with other large health care purchasers is at the center.
Sixteen states received a passing grade in CPR’s 2020 Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws. While it is a win that more consumers have access to price information to select lower-cost providers, consumer shopping is not the silver bullet to the nation’s health care cost problem.
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Zach Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Zach Brown used a quasi-experimental approach to analyze the impact of New Hampshire’s price
What we’ve learned from health care economists, policy experts, and business leaders has begun to illuminate the contours of a new health care economy, re-shaped in the wake of the global pandemic.
Health equity provides the principles and framework to address the maternal health disparity crisis in the U.S. The premise is simple: By improving care for those most likely to face poor outcomes, stakeholders can ensure that the health system is preventing poor outcomes for all patients.
Bob Galvin MD, Operating Partner of Equity Healthcare and former Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer for General Electric, suggests that the novel coronavirus paired with a challenging economy offers employer-purchasers a powerful inflection point.
For the past three years, Suzanne Delbanco and other CPR staff have interviewed health care thought leaders as part of CPR’s Listening In (With Permission) podcast. Each new podcast garners
Recorded on February 28, 2020. Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Marilyn Bartlett, CPA, CMA, CFM, Senior Policy Fellow with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP). Prior
Suzanne calls Michael Chernew, PhD, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. They discuss his December 2019 publication in
Amazon is far from alone as an employer interested in rolling out a primary care strategy for their plan members. CPR is ready to help employer-purchasers understand the latest evidence on high-value primary care and the dynamic primary care marketplace.
Can Electronic Health Records (EHRs) help reduce unnecessary health care spending? Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, consultant to the CEO at Cedars-Sinai and Professor of Medicine, and former Senior Vice President at Cedars-Sinai.
Suzanne Delbanco calls Christopher Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, to discuss top strategies for containing health care cost growth. They discuss the insurance rate review process that Rhode
In the commercial market, health plans negotiate rates on behalf of health care purchasers; they use purchasers’ collective volume to command better value for our health care dollars – or
The health care marketplace continues to evolve, as health care organizations consolidate and experiment with new value-oriented models. As these new strategies emerge to drive high-value purchasing, there has been
This is going to be quite a year. At CPR we’ve fastened our seatbelts for full speed. The core of what we do remains the same: we are pushing for
Tune in to hear from Mediquire’s CEO, Emily Chen, on using data in direct contracting arrangements between employers (and other health care purchasers) and providers
Listen in as CPR’s Director of Projects & Research, Julianne McGarry, checks in with Beth Waldman, JD, MPH, Senior Consultant with Bailit Health. Beth Waldman is one of the leading
Medicaid Managed Care is a fascinating and important laboratory for health care payment innovation and reform.
