What is payment reform? What are accountable care organizations?
What works, and what doesn't?
Those were some of the issues addressed by a conference
co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Commonwealth Fund.
Review and download presentations from the speakers, read
presentation summaries from MMS staff, and view video excerpts from
their presentations.
(All presentations in .pdf format)
Download a white paper by Harvard School
of Public Health Professor Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D., discussing
the themes of the conference.
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration and
breakfast |
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| 8:15 a.m. | Welcome, Opening
Remarks
Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, MD, President,
Massachusetts Medical Society (3 pages) |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Morning Moderator
Aligning Payment and Delivery System Reforms: An
Overview
Stuart Guterman, Vice President, Program on
Payment System Reform, The Commonwealth Fund (3
pages) |
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| 8:45 a.m. | Successful Implementation Strategies
Howard R. Grant, JD, MD, Executive Vice
President, CMO, Geisinger Health System (26 pages)
MMS Blog post: Bringing Geisinger Reforms to Lahey
Clinic
Video excerpt: Geisinger's Payment Reform
Successes (12:35) |
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| 9:30 a.m. | Making Healthcare Affordable-
Continued
Michael van Duren, MD, MBA, Chief Medical
Officer, Sutter Physician Services (18 pages)
MMS Blog post: Doctor-Led, Data-Driven Variation
Reduction
Video excerpt: Sutter Physician Services: ACOs and Getting
Physician Alignment (8:24) |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Moving From Theory to
Practice
Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Hirsh Professor and
Chair, Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and
Health Services, George Washington University Medical Center
(10 pages)
MMS Blog post: ACOs and the Law: An Evolving Issue
Video excerpt: ACOs, Payment Reform and Anti-Trust
Law (5:30) |
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| 11:15 a.m. | Panel/Audience Discussion
(morning speakers) |
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| 12:15 p.m. | Lunchtime Speaker
Vermont's Experience with Payment
Reform
James A. Hester, PhD, Director, Vermont Health
Care Reform Commission (14 pages)
MMS Blog post: Vermont's Three-Pronged Approach to Reform Centers
on Communities
Video excerpt: Vermont's Health Reform
Experiment (9:06) |
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| 1:15 p.m. | Afternoon
Moderator
Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, MD, President, Massachusetts Medical
Society |
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| 1:20 p.m. | Massachusetts Commission on
Payment Reform and Next Steps
Secretary JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Massachusetts
Executive Office of Health and Human Services (13 pages)
MMS Blog post: Finding the Balance between Regulation and
Innovation
Video excerpt: Dr. JudyAnn Bigby on Mass. Payment
Reform (8:18) |
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| 1:50 p.m. | Massachusetts Models of Success
Dana Gelb Safran, ScD, Senior Vice President,
Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Massachusetts (BCBSMA) (21 pages) |
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| 2:10 p.m. | Massachusetts Models of
Success
Gene Lindsey, MD, President and CEO, Atrius
Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (7
pages) |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Massachusetts Models of
Success
Barbara Spivak, MD, President, Mount Auburn
Cambridge Independent Practice Association (6 pages)
MMS Blog post: ACOs: How Is All This Working in
Massachusetts?
Video excerpt: ACOs: Early Adopters in
Massachusetts (13:10) |
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| 2:50 p.m. | Panel/Audience Discussion
(afternoon speakers) |
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| 3:50 p.m. | Summary |
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| 4:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
