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 in the individual marketplace. Prior to serving as Covered California’s first Executive Director, Peter Lee served as Deputy Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as well as the Pacific Business Group on Health.
Find out what surprises people the most about Covered California and how you need to be creative with benefit design to succeed today. As the only state exchange to participate in CPR as a membership organization, Covered California sets the bar for what a progressive purchaser of health care can do to create a stable and high-functioning health care marketplace.
CPR published this podcast in May of 2017- one of the first episodes in CPR’s Listening In (With Permission) series. Are you subscribed on Itunes?