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Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform - A Framework for Improving Care and Slowing Health Care Cost Growth

April 2013

Past Event

Physician Leadership in Payment Reform

April 10, 2013

Past Event

Accessing and Communicating Device Information: UDI as a Tool for Improved Patient and Provider Connectivity

March 18, 2013

In the News

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) at their heart are about aligning providers’ financial incentives with patients’ needs for better health and lower cost care. Unlike traditional third-party, fee-for-service insurance, which pays more for doing more, the payment models underlying accountable care pay more for achieving better care at lower cost.

March 4, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, Wall Street Journal

Past Event

Incentives for Change: Addressing the Challenges in Antibacterial Drug Development

February 27, 2013

Past Event

Payer Involvement in the Sentinel Initiative

February 21, 2013

Past Event

Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop

January 31, 2013

In the News

It’s the biggest expansion of Medicaid in a long time, and the biggest ever in terms of adults covered. Although the federal government is on the hook for most of the cost, Medicaid on the whole is one of the biggest items in state budgets and the fastest growing. So there are some understandable concerns about the financial implications and how implementation would work.

January 28, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, The Associated Press

In the News

The steps that I think are most promising are really about changing payment methods to reward providers for better health outcomes.

January 21, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, Financial Times

Past Event

UDI Expert Workshop #2: Identifying Steps for Implementation and Integration of UDI within Electronic Data Infrastructure of Care Delivery Sites

December 13, 2012