Achieving Equity, Affordability and Quality: The Indispensable Role of Payment Reform
With health care reform emerging as a priority for the new administration and Congress, the health care community has an opportunity to help shape a system focused on achieving the societal goals of equity, affordability and quality. One issue central to that dialogue is exploring how to reform physician payment. At this year's Forum, physician leaders, consumers, patients, purchasers, payers, policy makers, and other stakeholders convened to discuss the underlying values and develop shared principles to guide physician payment reform and to support physician professionalism.
The goals of this year's Forum were to:
- Develop a set of principles and recommended actions for physician payment reform that assures equity, affordability and quality of health care and reflects the values of the medical profession.
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Learn how different stakeholders define the purposes and aims of the health care system – and how to optimize value derived from expenditures on health care.
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Discuss the implications for how services are paid and organized. Explore how delivery systems, physicians and other stakeholders can advance changes in physician payment and how medical professionalism can be fostered by these changes.
Day 1 (August 2, 2009)
Values and Physician Payment Reform
Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP
President and CEO
American Board of Internal Medicine
ABIM Foundation
Values and Principles: Can They Help in Setting Priorities?
Bernard Lo , MD
Professor of Medicine
Director of Medical Ethics Program
University of California, San Francisco
International Perspective: How Does the U.S. Health System Compare to Other Countries? What are the Implications for Payment Reform?
Sheila Leatherman, MSW, CBE, FRCP
Professor, Health Policy and Management
University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health
London School of Economics
Day 2 (August 3, 2009)
Kimball Lecture
Principled Payment: Reform Strategies to Achieve Equity, Affordability and Quality
Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD
President
Institute of Medicine
Day 3 (August 4, 2009)
Physician Payment and Incentives: The Permanente Medical Group Experience
Francis J. Crosson, MD
Senior Fellow
The Permanente Medical Group and Institute for Health Policy, Kaiser Foundation
A Health System Striving to Achieve Equity, Affordability and Quality
Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD
President and CEO
Geisinger Health System