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Webcasts/Audio/VideoAHCJ WebcastsMedical school officials say value-based care is not a fad June 2019 In fact, students at the school are learning to deliver care in value-based settings. They define value-based care and explain how medical students are learning to deliver care under this new method of payment. Author exposes rampant fraud in the generic drug industry
Medicaid Expansion and ACA Enrollment for 2019 November 2018 Reporting the prize-winning 'Seven Days of Heroin' October 2018 Understand new insurance plans and their impact on the ACA July 2018 How employers are improving maternal health July 2018 Prescription Drug Costs: Can Increased Competition Restrain Prices? June 2018 Marketplace open enrollment preview Marketing matters: ACA enrollment in 2018 New administration, new approach to Medicaid waivers? Where Medicaid stands: From the AHCA to state waivers Catching up on health reform What's next for health policy? Health insurance markets during a time of change: The nuts & bolts Covering consumers: Tackling costs, pricing and access Oncologists addressing financial toxicity June 2016 How consumers can evaluate physician quality November 2015 François de Brantes, HCI3’s executive director, explained the methodology and previewed the results of the organization’s third annual State Report Card on Transparency of Physician Quality Information. An examination of bundled payment: How insurers and providers are dispelling the myths September 2015 In this webcast, de Brantes discussed how providers and payers are getting good results from bundled payment programs and expanding many of these initiatives. How value-based insurance design breaks down barriers to care August 2014 Fendrick explained the principals of VBID and why this strategy is important for consumers. Most health insurers do not use VBID when implementing cost-sharing strategies with consumers. Instead they use what Fendrick called a “one-size-fits-all approach,” such as high copayments and high-deductible health plans. Transparency in health care costs December 2013 Two experts shared information on efforts to increase transparency in health care costs, tips on stories reporters should be covering and an extensive list of resources on the topic. How will rural Americans tap into the insurance marketplaces? October 2013 VideoHealth care: America vs. the World True cost of U.S. health care shocks the British public What Do Americans Think of ‘Socialized’ Medicine? What experts say about who has the world’s best health-care system What does U.S. health care look like abroad? Black and Latinx health care workers answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccines Video series from KFF Investigate Insulin Now with Congresswoman Katie Porter Johns Hopkins Medicine: Minority Health Disparities | Michelle’s Story Tackling ethnic health disparities: Lisa Cooper at TEDxBaltimore 2014 Third Quarter 2020 Health Plan Financial Results Podcast RIP Medical Debt hosts Medical Debt Summit How Health Insurance Works: What is a Deductible? Coinsurance? Copay? Premium? Community Health Center Doctors on COVID-19, Health Equity and Vaccines HEDIS Quality Scores Explained The National Committee for Quality Assurance uses the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) to assess the quality of care that health plans deliver. Walmart executives during a presentation at a conference discuss their experience with, plans for and enthusiasm about direct contracting, showing how Walmart was influencing the direct-contracting trend. Dr. Eric Bricker Explains How One Hospital Was Unique In Tracking Its Costs... and Lowering Them. Dr. Eric Bricker explains how unit price X use = Total Healthcare Costs with Examples. Making a Crisis: How the high-deductible revolution went off-track Health care costs have been an issue for decades. Average Deductible Goes from $379 to $1,350 Since 2006... Learn Why Dr. Eric Bricker Explains The Law of 'Cause and Effect' As It Relates to Health Insurance Deductibles. Dr. Eric Bricker Explains How PBMs and Pharmacies Make Money Through Spread Pricing. Single Payer Health System Dr. Margaret Flowers and Michael Tanner discussed the feasibility of a government-funded national health insurance program for the United States. Introduction to Hotspotting The Camden Coalition explains that health care hotspotting is the strategic use of data to reallocate resources to a small subset of high-needs, high-cost patients. We know that a small number of individuals drives much of the cost in the American health care system. The system struggles to help extreme patients, or outliers – the small number of patients with complex, hard-to-manage needs and chronic conditions. These outliers are known as super-utilizers. Over time, their chronic conditions worsen, leading to ever more expensive, invasive and risky treatment. Super-utilizers are the patients our standard systems have failed. Hotspotting uses data to discover the outliers, understand the problem, dedicate resources, and design effective interventions. It is a movement for a new system of multi-disciplinary, coordinated care that treats the whole patient and attends to the non-medical needs that affect health: housing, mental health, substance abuse, emotional support. Health Care Consolidation: What You Need to Know The Alliance for Health Reform hosted a discussion about health care consolidation on Dec. 15, 2015. A top Federal Trade Commission official, along with key experts, met with reporters to discuss the recent surge in health care consolidation; the driving forces behind this trend; and the implications for policymakers and enforcers. In 2014, there were a total of 1,299 mergers and acquisitions in the health care sector – a record number, up from 1,035 the year before. That includes a recent spike in pharmaceutical transactions, including inversions, which base U.S. drug companies overseas. Speakers will provide the latest information about the roles of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission; efforts by policymakers; the scope and extent of consolidation among doctors, hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies; and implications for consumers and other stakeholders.
A transcript of the discussion is available. Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago interviewed Jonathon Gruber of MIT in the first installment of a three-part series on the Affordable Care Act. Transparency in Health Care Prices, Costs and Quality Susan Dentzer, senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, led a discussion of the growing interest in transparency in the quality and cost of health care. Panelists include Anne Weiss, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement; Peter Isaacson, chief marketing officer at Castlight Health, a leading health care transparency company; and Chris Baily, interactive designer at Consumer Reports and winner of the RWJF Transparency and Data Challenge. Enrollment Tips for Medicare, ACA Coverage Mark Miller talks with Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar.com, about what Medicare members should consider when choosing a prescription drug plan under Medicare Part D. Harvard's ACA This Week: Risk Corridors In this video, John E. McDonough, DPH, MPA, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, explains risk corridors under the Affordable Care Act. Risk corridors are common in all kinds of insurance, particularly when insurers introduce policies in new markets where risk is unpredictable, he explains. The corridors help to prevent insurers from suffering steep losses or from having to set premiums too high, he adds. McDonough helped to write the ACA when he served as senior advisor on national health reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions from 2008 to 2010. N.C. insurer uses data analysis to identify high utilizers of health care Daryl Wansink, director of health economics for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, talks about how BCBSNC is using data to identify those members who are high utilizers of the emergency room and inpatient services. Health insurers are interested in this small proportion of members (usually about 5 percent) who are responsible for a big chunk of costs (some estimate as much as 50 percent of all spending). These are the patients who use the ER for primary care or who have multiple in-patient stays in a year. By using data to identify these patients, the insurer can get them the care and the resources they need to help them use the health system more effectively. Such strategies are important for health plans seeking to contain costs in accountable care organizations and in patient-centered medical homes. They also are important for these patients who are often neglected by the health system and end up getting care in the ER repeatedly rather than with a primary care physician. The U.S. Healthcare Law Rollout: Where Do We Stand? During a forum sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, experts from Harvard discussed the introduction of the Affordable Care Act and the issues that insurers and the federal and state governments will face in the coming months and years. David Morgan, a correspondent for Reuters, moderated the session. The speakers included David Cutler, a Harvard professor of applied economics; Katherine Baicker, a professor of health economics at the Harvard School of Public Health; Robert Blendon, a professor of public health and senior associate dean for policy translation and leadership development at the Harvard School of Public Health; and John McDonough, a professor of the practice of public health and director of the center for public health leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health. |
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