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2. A Washington Perspective on Payment Reform
October 13, 2011
Karen Ignagni
President and Chief Executive Officer
America’s Health Insurance Plans
3. Overview New Landscape
Achieving the Triple Aim
Strategies Driving Change
What’s Next?
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5. The New Landscape of HealthCare: It’s Not the 90s Anymore Partnerships
Quality and Cost Goals
Improved Performance Standards
Population Focused
Patient Centered
Leveraging Technology
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6. Triple Aim: Better Health, Better Care, Lower Cost
Health Plans are Working on Three Fronts to Achieve This Aim:
1. Redesigning care delivery
2. Engaging patients to be more active participants
3. Restructuring payment models to incentivize redesign
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7. Partnerships to Incentivize Redesign Move from Encounters ? Continuum of Care
Accountability for Care & Gaps in Care
Demonstrate Better Value
Experience Better Individual and Population Health
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8. Health Plan Payment Models Driving Change
Data drives approach
Population-based /primary care approaches
PCMHs/advanced primary care practices
ACOs
Procedure/episode-based approaches
Bundled payments
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9. Health Plan Payment Reform & Cancer Care -- Approaches Approaches include bundled payments, shared savings
Build on traditional FFS
Incorporate care management fees, performance-based payments
Different approaches to achieving similar goals
Reduce variation
Promote best practices
Improve patient outcomes
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10. Health Plan Payment Reform & Cancer Care – Identifying Targets
Use of clinical pathways
Flexibility to account for clinician choice, patient characteristics
Evaluation of data targets priority areas
Avoidable hospitalizations
Avoidable emergency department visits
Wide variation in treatment patterns
Redundant imaging and testing
Lack of improved outcomes
11. Health Plan Payment Reform & Cancer Care – Evaluation
Quality metrics used measure effectiveness of model
Complications and side effects
Care plan development
Provision of counseling
Adherence to pathways
Identify best practices
Feedback to clinicians
Comparison to peers, benchmarks
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12. What’s Next: Maximizing Opportunity
Identify Best Practices, Advance High-Quality Care and Facilitate Rapid Learning by:
Investing in Research on What Works
Developing a Strategy for Clinical Registries
Migrating from Per Procedure Payment in Public Programs to Coordinated, Integrated Care
Learn from Private Sector Experience to Drive Public Program Change
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