Recent Conferences
October 14, 2010
Fall Forum
July 8, 2010
Summer Forum
April 15, 2010
Spring Forum
October 14, 2009
Accelerating High-Value Healthcare
September 16, 2009
Next Steps Toward a Robust Comparative Effectiveness Research Enterprise
July 20, 2009
Establishing a National Health Insurance Exchange
June 11, 2009
Federal Strategies for Promoting Affordable Biologics: Follow-On Biologic Competition
April 29, 2009
Implementing Bundled Payments for Health Care Services
November 24, 2008
Medicare Delivery System Reform
October 2, 2008
Specialty Pharmaceuticals: Policy Solutions for Encouraging Access and Affordability
July 16, 2008
Managing Specialty Pharmaceuticals
June 4, 2008
"Road Testing" Electronic Medical Records
April 30, 2008
Innovation Workgroup
April 10, 2008
Payment and Delivery System Reform
November 29, 2007
Comparative Effectiveness Congressional Briefing
November 27, 2007
Overview of Cost Management Strategies
October 24, 2007
Coverage With Evidence Development
October 2, 2007
Value-Based Payment for Medical Technologies
September 18, 2007
Personalized Medicine Conference
July 25, 2007
Comparative Effectiveness: Stakeholder Perspectives
April 11, 2007
Post Marketing Surveillance
February 14, 2007
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Congressional Briefing
November 30, 2006
Comparative Effectiveness Forum
October 12, 2006
Coverage Policy in an Era of Personalized Medicine
July 13, 2006
Pharmaceutical Benefit Management
May 1, 2006
Methodology Standards
April 4, 2006
Technology Assessment
October 3, 2005
Promoting Appropriate Utilization
April 1, 2005
Evidence-Based Health Care System
July 16, 2004
Correcting Underuse in Health Care
April 10, 2008
Payment and Delivery System Reform: Creating Conditions for More Efficient and Effective Health Care Services
The current structure of fee-for-service reimbursement in the U.S. has become a major impediment to reforms that could improve the quality and value of health care services. This Conference focused on recent attempts by payers to modify reimbursements in ways that enable delivery system improvements. It then examined the efficiencies these partnerships offer and the potential for exporting them to other settings.
Presentations:
What the US Must Do to Slow Growth in Spending
Stuart Altman, PHD, Dean, Heller School at Brandeis University
Transformation: A Collaborative Approach to Health Care
Andrew Dreyfus, Executive Vice President, Health Care Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
The Role of Payment Reform in a Multi-Year Health Care Transformation Initiative in Massachusetts
Jeffrey Levin-Scherz, MD, Harvard School of Public Health
Bruce H. Hamory, MD, FACP, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Emeritus, Geisinger Health System
21st Century Payment/Delivery Reform: What Have We Learned, What Haven't We Learned?
Lewis G. Sandy, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group
Payment Reform Critical for Accelerating Improvment
Bob Galvin, MD, Director, Global Healthcare, General Electric
