Health Affairs Briefing: Delivery System Innovation

In a constantly changing political and policy environment, innovative efforts to improve the quality and value of health care are proliferating. The impetus comes from many sources: leading health care systems seeking to improve their own performance; public and private payers increasingly relying upon value-based payment methods; and clinical leaders and patients demanding change.

The March 2017 edition of Health Affairs contains a broad look at what we have learned about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to delivery system innovation. Please join us on March 7 at a forum at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, featuring authors from the journal who will present their studies.

WHEN:
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 
9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

WHERE:
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC (Metro Center)

Register Today!

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Panels will cover:

• Promoting & Measuring Innovation
• Commercial Insurance and Benefit Design
• Medicaid & The Safety Net
• Medicare

The program will feature presentations from the following authors:

• Maria Alva, Health Economist, RTI International, on Impact of the Y-USA Diabetes Prevention Program on Medicare Spending and Utilization
• Scott Ashwood, Associate Policy Researcher, RAND, on Direct-To-Consumer Telehealth May Increase Access To Care But Does Not Decrease Spending
• Michael Barnett, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, on Los Angeles Safety-Net Program eConsult System Increased Specialist Consults, Decreased Wait Times To See Specialists
• David Bates,Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on Innovative Environments In Health Care: Where And How New Approaches To Care Are Succeeding
• Michael Chernew, Senior Research Associate, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, on CareFirst Total Cost And Improvement Program: Largely Budget Neutral During First Three Years
• Erin Colligan, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, on Innovative Oncology Care Models Improve End-Of-Life Quality, Reduce Utilization And Spending
• Dori Cross, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, on Outcomes For High-Needs Patients: Practices With A Higher Proportion Of These Patients Have An Edge
• Heather M. Dahlen, Research Associate, Medica Research Institute, on Texas Medicaid Payment Reform: Fewer Early Elective Deliveries And Increased Gestational Age And Birth Weight
• Melvin Ingber, Principal Scientist, RTI International, on Initiative To Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents Shows Promising Results
• K. John McConnell,Director, Center for Health Systems Effectiveness, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, on Oregon’s Medicaid Reform And Transition To Global Budgets Associated With Reductions In Expenditures
• Mary Reed, Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente, on Value-Based Insurance Design Benefit Offsets Reductions In Medication Adherence Associated With Switch To Deductible Plan
• Sarah Ruiz, Program Officer, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, on Innovative Home Visit Programs Associated With Reductions In Costs, Hospitalizations, And Emergency Department Use
• Anna Sinaiko, Research Scholar, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on Evaluation Of Synthesis Of Research On Patient-Centered Medical Homes Brings Systematic Differences Into Relief
• Kevin Smith, Senior Research Public Health Analyst, Center for Advanced Methods Development, RTI International, on Impact Of Health Care Delivery System Innovations On Total Cost Of Care
• Christopher Whaley, University of California, Berkeley, on Reference Pricing Changes The Consumer Choice Architecture Of Health Care 

Health Affairs is grateful to Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Colorado Health Foundation, Missouri Foundation for Health, and New York State Health Foundation for their support of the issue and briefing.

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