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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Potential to Foster Quality While Reducing Costs
Resources and Background Materials
A recording of this discussion forum is also available.
Presentations – May 25, 2010
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Potential to Foster Quality While Reducing Costs
David Lansky, Co-Chair, Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project and President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health
Models of Accountable Care: Medical Home, Episodes and ACOs – Making it work
Elliot Fisher, Director, Population Health and Policy, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Accountable Care Organizations: Taking Shape at the Local Level
Development of Vermont ACO Pilots: Community Health Systems To Control Costs and Improve Health - Jim Hester, Director of the Health Care Reform Commission in Vermont
ACOs: A Health Plan Perspective – Kirk Stapleton, Sr. Vice President, Network Planning UnitedHealth Networks
Federal Implementation/Reaction
Jon Blum, Director, Center for Medicare Management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (no PowerPoint slides)
Shared Decision-Making: Using Patient-Centered Decision Aids to
Improve Outcomes and Reduce Overuse
Resources &
Background Material
Presentations - July 1, 2009
Shared Decision-Making: Using
Patient-Centered Decision Aids to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Overuse
- Peter Lee, Co-Chair Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project and National
Policy Director of Pacific Business Group on Health
Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure
Project Shared Decision-making Forum - Lyn Paget, Director of
Communications, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making
Shared Decision-making at
Dartmouth - Kate Clay, Program Director, Center for Shared
Decision-making, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Shared Decision-Making
Program - Betsy Barbeau, Senior Vice President, Shared
Decision-Making, Health Dialog
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Understanding What It Is and
Helping to Shape the Future Course
Resources &
Background Material
Presentations - May 5, 2009
Comparative Effectiveness Research
in the Context of Health Care Reform - Peter Lee, Consumer-Purchaser
Disclosure Project and Pacific Business Group on Health
Comparative Effectiveness
Research: Key Issues and Controversies - Steven Pearson MD, MSc, FRCP,
Institute of Clinical and Economic Review
Using Comparative Effectiveness
Research in the Public and Private Sector - Sean Tunis MD, MSc, Center
for Medical Technology Policy
National Health Care Reform Promoting Better Quality and More
Affordable Care: Major Options and How to Translate Them for Beyond the
Beltway
Presentations - March 6, 2009
National Health Care Reform: Policy
Options that Can Promote Affordability and Higher Quality - Debra L.
Ness, Co-Chair, Consumer Purchaser Disclosure Project and President,
National Partnership for Women & Families; and Peter V. Lee, Co-Chair,
Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project and Executive Director for National
Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health
Voter Attitudes on
Health System Change Reforms - Lake Research Partners and The Herndon
Alliance
Materials on Messaging Health Reform
Key Messaging Lessons
About System Changes in Health Care Reform - This memo from The
Herndon Alliance and Lake Research Partners provides key findings and top
messages on reform issues such as comparative effectiveness,
evidence-based medicine, and overuse.
Quality and
Equality in U.S. Healthcare: A Message Handbook - A recent publication
from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this handbook was created to
provide the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities with
information and messaging on a range of reform policy strategies,
including consumer engagement, quality improvement, rewarding quality
care, and performance measurement and public reporting.
From Our Lips to Whose Ears?
Consumer Reaction to Our Current Health Care Dialect - This study
examines how the language of health policy and reform commonly used by
stakeholders actually gets "heard" by the lay public, with some surprising
results.
Hospital Performance: The Expansion of Public Reporting,
Performance-based Payment, and Quality Improvement in Public and Private
Sectors
Resources & Background Material
Presentations - June 24, 2008
Hospital Performance: The
Expansion of Public Reporting, Performance-based Payment, and Quality
Improvement in Public and Private Sectors - Peter V. Lee, Co-Chair,
Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project and National Policy Director,
Pacific Business Group on Health
CMS' Progress Toward Implementing
Value-Based Purchasing - Thomas B. Valuck, MD, Ph.D., Medical Officer
& Senior Adviser, Center for Medicare Management, CMS
The Public Reporting and Payment
Landscape - Barbara Rudolph, PhD, Director, Leaps and Measures, The
Leapfrog Group
Consumer Decision Support:
Challenges and Issues Related to Chooser Tools for Helping Individuals
with Health Care Transactions - Ted von Glahn, Director, Performance
Improvement and Consumer Engagement, Pacific Business Group on Health
Private Sector Reporting:
Stakeholders Helping Consumers Manage Their Health - Christine
Muldoon, MBA, Director of Product Management, WebMD Health Services
The Medical Home and Physician Payment Reform
Resources & Background Material
The Medical Home and
Physician Payment Reform
Resources and Background Materials, October 2007
Presentations - October 17, 2007
Overview of the
Medical Home and Physician Payment Reform - Peter Lee,
Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project
The Patient
Centered Medical Home: A New model for Primary and Principal Care -
John Tooker, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the
American College of Physicians (ACP)
Patient-Centered Medical
Home: Knowing When We See One - Greg Pawlson, Executive Vice President
of the NCQA
Medical Home
Demonstrations: Rhode Island Experience - Deidre Gifford, Chief of
Health Policy and Programs at href="http://www.riqualitypartners.org/">Quality Partners of Rhode
Island
Medical Home
Demonstrations: Private Health Plan - Lisa Latts, Vice President,
Programs in Clinical Excellence for WellPoint, Inc.
Medical Home
Demonstrations: CMS and Federal Initiatives - Linda Magno, Director of
the Medicare Demonstrations Group in the Office of Research, Development
and Information at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Measuring Patients' Experiences with Care: Practical and Policy
Issues
Resources & Background Material
Measuring
Patients' Experiences with Care
Resources and Background Materials, July 2007
Presentations - July 12, 2007
Importance of Measuring Patients'
Experiences with Care
Peter Lee, Disclosure Project
Measuring Patients'
Experiences with Care: An Overview
Dale Shaller, Shaller Consulting/ National CAHPS Benchmarking Database
Regional Initiatives Using Patient Experience to Assess Physician
Performance
Todd Osbeck,
Priority Health
Ted vonGlahn, Pacific
Business Group on Health
Melinda Karp, Massachusetts
Health Quality Partners
Models for Widespread
Adoption of Measuring Patients' Experiences with Physicians
Robert Krughoff and Paul Kallaur, Center for the Study of
Services/Consumers' CHECKBOOK
Medicare's Physician Performance Reporting Agenda
Resources & Background Material
Medicare's Physician
Performance Reporting Agenda
Background Information, February 2007
Presentations - February 28, 2007
Medicare's Physician
Performance Agenda: Understanding Next Steps and Shaping the Future
Course
Peter Lee, Disclosure Project
2007 Physician Quality Reporting
Initiative (PQRI)
Herb Kuhn and Tom Valuck, CMS
Building for the Future: Moving to Administrative Sources and Electronic
Health Records
Marc Overhage,
Regenstrief Institute
David Bates, Partners
Healthcare
Using Electronic Data to Assess Physician Quality & Efficiency
Resources & Background Material
Using
Electronic Data to Assess Physician Quality and Efficiency
Resources and Background Materials, September 2006
Presentations - September 29, 2006
Promise and Perils
of Electronic Data
Peter Lee, Disclosure Project
Physician Performance
Measurement
Earl Steinberg, Resolution Health
Efficiency Performance
Measurement
Mark Rattray, President of CareVariance
Provider Payments: How They Work, Implications for Cost & Quality
Resources & Background Material
Provider
Payments: How They Work, Implications for Cost & Quality, and Creating a
Consumer/Purchaser Policy Agenda
Resources & Background Material, August 2006
The Widening Primary
Care and Specialty Income Gap
Presentation by Dr. Tom Bodenheimer, University of California, San
Francisco
Supporting Health Care
Re-engineering
Pacific Business Group on Health
Presentations - July 26, 2006
The
"Basics" - Medicare Physician and Hospital Payments
Peter Lee, Disclosure Project
Physician Payment
by Private Sector Health Plans
Michael Ile, United Health Care
Structuring Hospital and
Physician Payment: Policy Options
Paul Ginsburg, PhD, Center for Studying Health System Change
Cost & Price Transparency
Resources & Background Material
Cost & Price Transparency:
Presenting Health Care Costs to
Consumers
Resources & Background Material, May 2006
Presentations - May 25, 2006
Understanding the
Issues
Peter Lee, Disclosure Project
Prescription Drug
Pricing
Steve Findlay, Consumers Union
