BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150838Z CREATED:20231103T154125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150838Z UID:25899-1386810000-1386810000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The cost of health care: Is transparency possible? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentations: \n\n\nSuzanne Delbanco\, Ph.D. \n\n\nKatherine Hempstead\, Ph.D.\, \n\n\n \nAHCJ Core Topic: Insurance \nWill price transparency drive up health care costs? \nInsurance highlights from Covering Health \nCompanies rethink roles in the new health economy \nFive Takeaways from the National Transparency Summit \nAll Payer Claims Database \nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Hospital Price Transparency Challenge \nOkay Copay \nChange Healthcare \nIntermountain Healthcare extends data-driven approach to reducing costs \nUnaccountable\, by Marty Makary\, M.D. \nChoosing Wisely \nChoosing Wisely: How to avoid unnecessary tests and treatments\, Consumer Reports \nChoosing Wisely: An Initiative to Improve the Quality and Safety of Health Care \nFlip the Clinic consumer experience \nOpenNotes \nMedical practice survey \nPros and Cons of Concierge Medicine \nProvider consolidation \nCPR Market Power Summit \nImpact of hospital consolidation \nMass. health care delivery system map \nReport care on state price transparency laws \nThe Effects of Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry \nGood examples of why we should talk about transparency in health care costs \nCompare prices at N.Y. hospitals: Look up procedures\, compare costs\, charges \nTransparency: Big Data Sexy and Pricey \nNational Summit on Health Care Price\, Cost and Quality Transparency \nTransparency is key to free-market cost control  \nHigh Deductibles Fuel New Worries of Health-Law Sticker Shock \n\nOn Jan. 1\, many formerly uninsured Americans will have health insurance coverage and thus will be prepared to engage the health system. \nBut the newly insured will be like most Americans using the health care system today: They will lack the information they need about the cost of health care services and about how much of the total cost is their responsibility. \nAnd\, like most Americans\, many of the newly insured will have high-deductible health plans and thus may face sticker shock when they visit and physician or hospital and learn how much they have to pay out of pocket until they reach their deductible. \nThis lack of price transparency is widespread in the U.S. health care system. Yet\, for years\, health insurers and employers have been shifting the responsibility to pay for care to consumers and employees. Clearly there is a pressing need for information on the cost of care. \nAHCJ will explore these issues during a one-hour webcast on price transparency on Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific). \nSpeakers:\n\n\nSuzanne Delbanco\, Ph.D.\, executive director of the Catalyst for Payment Reform in San Francisco \n\n\nKatherine Hempstead\, Ph.D.\, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton\, N.J. \n\n\nModerator: Joseph Burns\, AHCJ topic leader on health insurance \n\n\n \nSuzanne F. Delbanco \nKatherine Hempstead \nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-cost-of-health-care-is-transparency-possible/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131218T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131218T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150839Z CREATED:20231103T154224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150839Z UID:25902-1387328400-1387328400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Medicare: Whose Entitlement Is It? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentations (PDFs): \n\nStacy Sanders\nRosemary Gibson\n\n\nWednesday\, Dec. 18\, 2 p.m. ET\n \nAbout the webcast\nMedicare reform is a hot topic on the agenda for the bipartisan congressional budget committee whose Dec. 13 deadline for a compromise deal on a federal spending plan is looming. Both political parties have proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age and premiums on older adults\, among other changes.    \nIn the midst of this debate\, two policy experts will help AHCJ members understand:  \n\n\nwhat are the underlying forces driving up Medicare spending and what does it mean for older adults? \n\n\nwhat is being done to combat waste\, fraud and overtreatment? \n\n\nhow did Medicare become a big business and a darling of Wall Street? \n\n\nwhere does the money for Medicare come from and where does it go? How much of Social Security income are seniors paying for Medicare?   \n\n\nwill boomers be able to find a doctor when they become eligible for Medicare? \n\n\nwhat rights and protections do older adults have in this changing Medicare landscape? \n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\nRosemary Gibson\, senior adviser to The Hastings Center  \n\n\nStacy Sanders\, M.S.W.\, is federal policy director at the Medicare Rights Center \n\n\nModerator Liz Seegert\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on aging and an independent journalist \n\n\nAbout the speakers\nRosemary Gibson is national authority on patient safety and the health care industry. She’s a senior adviser to The Hastings Center and an editor for JAMA Internal Medicine. She’s authored several books\, including “The Treatment Trap\,” which puts a human face on overtreatment\, and “Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It\,” which examines the business of Medicare and its impact on the fiscal challenges facing the federal program for older Americans. Gibson led national health care initiatives at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for 16 years.  She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. \nStacy Sanders\, M.S.W.\, is federal policy director at the Medicare Rights Center a national\, nonprofit organization that works to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities understand their rights and benefits\, navigate the system and gain affordable\, quality care.  Previously\, Sanders led national campaigns to enhance income security for older adults\, including strengthening social security for older women. She completed her master’s at the University of Michigan as a fellow of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education. She is an executive fellow of the Center for Progressive Leadership\, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served as co-chair of the Income Security Committee of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations in 2011. \nModerator Liz Seegert is AHCJ’s core topic leader on aging. Her reporting and writing background spans more than 25 years in print\, broadcast and digital media covering consumer and professional health topics. Seegert’s writing credits include Kaiser Health News\, New America Media\, Women \, Home Care Technology Report and professional journals\, such as the Journal of Healthcare Information Management and Practical Diabetology. She is a regular contributor to theHealthCetera\, blog and to the award-winning HealthStyles radio show (WBAI/Pacifica)\, both part of the Center for Health\, Media and Policy at Hunter College\, NYC\, where she is a senior fellow. \nRosemary Gibson \nStacy Sanders \nLiz Seegert URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/medicare-whose-entitlement-is-it/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR