Pharmaceutical & Drug Policy
Amicus brief on the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug pricing provisions
With U.S. health care expenditures projected to double by 2035, reforming payment and delivery systems is essential to reining in costs and achieving higher-value care. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMI)—created by the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—has the potential to accelerate, optimize and speed health care payment and delivery innovation.
On October 18, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings hosted a forum focused on key themes for accelerating health care innovation, including the importance of strategic public and private collaboration and alignment of investments to effect system-wide improvements in payment and delivery. Following keynote remarks by Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, experts discussed methods to spur rapid identification, execution and evaluation of promising payment and delivery reform models, as well as issues surrounding CMI implementation.
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Agenda
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October 18
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12:00 PM -- Introduction
Mark B. McClellan Former Brookings Expert, Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University -
12:15 PM -- Panel I: Evaluation and Implementation for System-Wide Impact
ADAllen Dobson President, North Carolina Community Care NetworkAKAllan Korn Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield AssociationMAMModerator: Aaron McKethan Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information TechnologyRGRichard Gilfillan Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid InnovationPBPolly Bednash Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, American Association of Colleges of NursingLSLisa Suennen Co-Founder and Managing Member, Psilos Group -
1:15 PM -- Keynote: Overview of CMI and Its Role in Broader Health Reform
DBDonald Berwick Administrator -
1:45 PM -- Panel II: Federal Leadership for System-Wide Impact
JKJeff Kang Chief Medical Officer, CIGNA Corporation
Farzad Mostashari Former Brookings Expert, CEO - Aledade IncJHJason Hwang Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight InstituteDSDana Safran Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts -
2:50 PM -- Closing Remarks
Mark B. McClellan Former Brookings Expert, Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
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