Posted on July 14, 2010 16:36
Categories: State and Local | Legislative and Regulatory Issues
Topics: Health Care Reform | Legislation (National) | Legislation (State & Local) | Spending
On June 17, the RWJF released a report examining the work of an RWJF panel convened to discuss health care payment reform under the national health care reform law. The report highlights the recommendations of the panelists, which include focusing on community-based payment reform, improving the ability to measure process efficiency and quality, and incorporating Medicaid into all payment reform models and strategies. The report concludes that payment reform is essential for improving quality and reducing costs but faces significant implementation challenges.
From the report:
On April 8, 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) convened a payment reform advisory panel composed of health policy experts as well as representatives of health plans, purchasers, consumer groups, health professionals, government and philanthropy. Please see the attached participant list. The panel developed a set of general, high level recommendations to the field of relevant policymakers and health care stakeholders regarding pragmatic next steps necessary for payment reforms. Reforming payment is a critical piece of the ongoing, years-long effort to help American health care drive sustainable high quality, efficient, and high value care. Most understand that current payment strategies too often promote fragmentation and high volume rather than high value. The recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) incorporates this view about the critical nature of payment reform for the overall success of health care reform. The advisory panel made its recommendations against this reform backdrop of heightened attention to and concern about the success of payment reform.
Full report: Charting a Path for Health Care Payment Reform (PDF | 519KB)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2010). Charting a path for health care payment reform: recommendations for the field.
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