Pharmaceutical & Drug Policy
Incorporating information on therapeutic alternatives into the IRA prescription drug negotiations
A key component of a transparent health care system is providing access to physician payment data because it can reveal important trends in how we pay doctors differently, and likewise reveal glaring evidence of the faults in our payment system: inconsistent pricing of services, overuse of expensive tests and procedures; and extreme variations in health care spending. An April 2014 release of millions of lines of Medicare Part B physician payment data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was just one of many recent data releases designed to enhance transparency.
On December 1, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform brought together providers, payers and consumer advocates to discuss the value of current health care datasets, and explore how future releases can be used to drive health system improvements via more transparency.
Download the Commonwealth Fund issue brief by Kavita Patel, “
Making Sense of the Medicare Physician Payment Data Release: Uses, Limitations, and Potential
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Download “Online Health Care Data Sources.”
Join the conversation by following @BrookingsMed or #HealthData
Enhancing Health System Transparency through Meaningful Health Data Releases
Agenda
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December 1
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Opening Remarks
2:00 pm
SGStuart Guterman Vice President, Medicare and Cost Control - The Commonwealth Fund -
What Health Care Data Have Been Released and What Have We Learned?
2:05 pm
NBNiall Brennan Chief Data Officer - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)COCharles Ornstein Senior Reporter - ProPublicaCCCharles Cutler Immediate Past Chair, Board of Regents - American College of Physicians -
A Vision of the Future: What Does the Public Care About and Need?
3:35 pm
DPDoris Peter Director, Health Ratings Center - Consumer Health ChoicesRKRobert Krughoff President - Consumers' CheckbookRRRobert Restuccia Executive Director - Community Catalyst -
Closing Remarks
4:20 pm
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Implications and Perspectives from Policymakers, Payers and Researchers
2:50 pm
Paul B. Ginsburg Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Senior Fellow - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
Chapin White Adjunct Senior Policy Researcher - RAND CorporationLSLewis Sandy Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement - UnitedHealth Group
Bruce Steinwald Consultant - Bruce Steinwald Consulting
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