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Category Archives: Payment Reform

Healthcare Quality Coalition

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Michael Richards, Executive Director of External Affairs at Gundersen Lutheran Health System and Brian Vamstad, Legislative Policy Analyst and Coordinator of the Healthcare Quality Coalition discuss the HQC’s work. Organization Overview The Healthcare Quality Coalition (HQC) began in 2009 as an ad-hoc group of healthcare organizations advocating for reform to the healthcare delivery and payment […]

Medical home pilots spur delivery and payment reform

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Patient-centered medical home models have proven that they reduce hospital admission and emergency room use in recent pilots. WellPoint and other payers were involved in medical home test models in Colorado and New Hampshire that demonstrated not only higher-performing care delivery but an example of payment reform with its incentives for care coordination and improved […]

The DIAMOND Program

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Pam Pietruszewski, M.A., a health care consultant at the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement’s (ICSI) Professional Partnerships division, explains how a program in Minnesota is changing the way depression care is delivered and paid for. ICSI brought together medical groups, health plans, employers and patients to discuss barriers to establishing a collaborative approach for patients […]

Lessons from the Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform Part 2

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Karen Timberlake, director of the Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform (PHPR) in Wisconsin, shares her insights on implementing new payment reform pilots.The Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform (PHPR) is a unique collaboration of healthcare providers, payers, employers and consumers dedicated to tackling the complex challenge of providing quality healthcare, while reforming a frequently cumbersome payment structure. PHPR, […]

Webinar: Payment Reform – State & Private Sector Collaborations

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This webinar will explore current approaches to payment reform that offer insight for future federal and state policies. While uncertainty remains regarding the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, there is intensifying pressure for a system-wide focus on controlling health care costs. The U.S. spent nearly 18 percent of GDP on health care in […]

Building the Case for Change

John Toussaint, MD, summarizes the three core elements needed to dramatically improve healthcare value in the U.S. John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and author of the recently published Potent Medicine: The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare is featured in this presentation summarizing the three core elements needed to dramatically improve […]