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Market Research Report
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
10:15 am -
10:20 am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
10:20 am -
11:05 am
Getting the Bang for Your Buck from P4P – Lessons Learned from P4P in Action
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of Pay-for-Performance to date – Lessons learned and program adaptations
  • An overview of the California P4P Model – Program goals and guiding principles
  • Strategies for providers to achieve small wins and ultimately long-term improvements with P4P
  • Sitting at year six, what can the industry expect from P4P in the future?
Dolores Yanagihara - Speaker Photo Dolores Yanagihara, MPH
Program Director, Pay for Performance
Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)
11:05 am -
11:50 am
Aligning Hospital and Physician Incentives with Bundled Payments
Nicholas Wolter - Speaker Photo Nicholas Wolter, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Billings Clinic;
Former Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC);
Member, Board of Trustees, American Hospital Association (AHA)
11:50 am -
1:00 pm
Luncheon with Executive Discussion Roundtables
1:00 pm -
1:45 pm
Collaborative Payment Models to Drive Quality – An Update on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC)
  • Moving beyond pay-for-performance to provider contracts that pay for quality and reward efficiencies
  • Tying new payment models to evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness models
  • Development and launch of the Alternative Quality Contract to pay providers for quality and outcomes, not volume and complexity
Deborah Devaux - Speaker Photo Deborah Devaux
Executive Director, Community Transformation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)
1:45 pm -
2:30 pm
Accelerating the Adoption of HIT to Improve Outcomes and Maximize Reimbursement
Executive Presenter TBD
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