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.
Medicaid Managed Care is a fascinating and important laboratory for health care payment innovation and reform.
Listen in to Brooks Daverman, Deputy Director of TennCare (Tennessee’s Medicaid program), debate Catalyst for Payment Reform’s Suzanne Delbanco on the need for standard bundled payment definitions. They draw on
Like so many others in the industry, CPR staff are monitoring the buzz about Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway/ JP Morgan Chase’s Haven Healthcare. We noticed that the role of primary care is
Let’s face it. Something has got to give. While employers and health care purchasers have long tried to implement market-based solutions, catalyzing consistent and long lasting system-wide change in health
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
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
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
Early findings from the Vitals for Change Scorecard, a guide for employers from Mercer and Catalyst for Payment Reform Frustration with the US health care system is mounting. There’s a
Did you know the state of Maryland is home to the nation’s only all-payer, global budget hospital system? Despite the fact that over the years, other states have tried to
Collectively, state Medicaid agencies cover 74 million Americans, more than any other insurer by a longshot, including Medicare. To manage constrained budgets, growing enrollment numbers, and high utilization by high
Since the early days, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) made it part of our mission to spur and track the growth of payment reform. And boy have we seen it
Suzanne speaks with Malini Nijagal, MD, MPH, of UCSF to learn what motivated her new call to action in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The April 2018 publication outlines how
Twenty-nine percent of payments to doctors and hospitals are through “alternative payment models” (APMs), according to the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN). This includes payment reforms that
Are we really transitioning away from fee-for-service? Suzanne calls Bob Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, to discuss the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, why it’s flawed and why
Suzanne is curious to learn from Michael Chernew, Health Economist and Professor at the Harvard Medical School, about employers’ role in demanding and participating in evaluations of payment and delivery
Will we continue to see huge mergers and acquisitions in 2018? What impact will they have on consumers? What should employers be optimistic about for next year? Emily Roesing, CPR’s
Andréa Caballero dials up the joint sponsors of the Virginia Scorecard on Payment Reform pilot, Doug Gray, Executive Director of the Virginia Association of Health Plans, and Beth Bortz, President
