Payment reform: Educating policymakers

In order to align public and private payments with better health quality outcomes for all Ohioans, HPIO educates state policymakers and the people who influence them by providing concise, comprehensive and easy-to-understand information and analysis on the topic. HPIO is an objective source for unbiased analysis of data, research, and state/federal laws and regulations.

Recent HPIO payment reform event

Paying for Health Care Value in Ohio: Implementing accountable care (ACO) in the public and private sectors

On July 21, HPIO hosted an educational forum on accountable care organizations as an innovative way to reform public and private payment for health services featuring Harold D. Miller, founding Executive Director of the national Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform and President and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and Doug Anderson, Of Counsel to Bailey Cavalieri LLC.

Click here for the presentation packet from the ACO event

HPIO resources

• Understanding the Medicare ACO and Its Potential Impact on Ohio and the Nation: Considerations of CMS Draft Rules
  ACO primer
  Table of 65 proposed measures in Medicare Shared Savings Program
  (May, 2011) A policy brief (and accompanying primer) on Accountable Care Organizations, including a summary of the Medicare Shared Savings Program Proposed Rules, highlights of key considerations and concerns, and reactions from several Ohio-based health systems that are already implementing some form of accountable care.
• Exploring Medicaid Payment Reform
  A presentation by Deborah Bachrach, former New York Medicaid Director, as part of HPIO’s “Key Health Policy Issues for 2011: A Luncheon Series for Policymakers”

Other payment reform resources

• “Payment Reform: Analysis of Models and Performance Measurement Implications”
  A report by the Rand Corporation
• “The Trajectory of Health System Improvement”
  A presentation by Craig Brammer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, given at a European American Chamber of Commerce event 
  (May, 2011)
• "Toward a Shared Vision on Payment Reform"
  A Commonwealth Fund white paper by Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health
• "Accounting for the cost of health care in the United States"
  A report from McKinsey Global Institute