Catalyst for Payment Reform

Aggregated Health Care Purchasing: Models for Success

Thursday, May 20 from 1pm-3pm EDT/ 10am-12pm PDT Frustrated by the continued erosion of health care affordability, some purchasers have taken matters into their own hands by pooling their volume of covered lives with other health care purchasers. There is a three decades-long history of purchasers banding together to aggregate their member volume to achieve

What’s Next? Purchaser Priorities with CPR and Willis Towers Watson

As the pandemic winds down in the U.S. with the availability of vaccines, employers and other health care purchasers are looking critically at their health plans, their benefits programs, and where their members are getting care. What's in store Attend this free webinar to learn how to address purchaser needs in payment reform, care delivery

Q3 2021 Health Plan User Groups

CPR’s Members and Coalition Partner Members regularly meet with major national and regional health plans, allowing participants to align their expectations and plans an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers.  In this Series of meetings, plans will share MSK program impact using one of CPR’s Reform Evaluation Frameworks and present on their MSK

Q4 2021 Pharmacy Benefit Manager User Groups

CPR’s Members regularly meet with major pharmacy benefits managers, allowing participants to align their expectations and PBMs an efficient means to deliver information to participating purchasers.  In this meeting series, PBMs will present their latest progress using CPR’s progress report and present on a topic Member interest. If you are a CPR Member and do

Health Policy Developments Impacting Employer-Purchasers with Suzanne Delbanco, Catalyst for Payment Reform, Katy Spangler, Spangler Strategies and Tracy Watts, Mercer

  After a decade of pushing for greater transparency and payment reform in health care, employers and other health care purchasers need to know how the latest federal policy developments impact these efforts. Employers and other health care purchasers have pushed for over 10 years to have greater transparency into health care prices for themselves

Data is the New Health Care Currency: Are Purchasers Getting Short-Changed?

JANUARY 27, 2022 @ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST EASTERN Health care data provide invaluable information to self-insured purchasers, helping them engineer, administer, and refine their benefits purchasing strategy. Unfortunately, purchasers experience challenges in accessing and using the data that they and their business associates require. As a result, purchasers remain stymied in their efforts to actualize obligations

Q2 2022 Health Plan User Groups

Catalyst for Payment Reform’s Health Plan User Groups (HPUGs) offer a forum for a substantive and nutrient-rich two-way dialogue between CPR Members and Coalition Partner Members on a variety of current and high-priority topics. In this the Spring of 2022, plans will share how they measure the success of their High Performance Networks using a