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Moderating Payment Reform: Mark Your Calendars For April 12

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I'm not kidding. The discussion will be moderated by my fabulous blogging partner, Carey Goldberg, who has an innate gift for transforming wonky content to delicious fun. So it should be a blast. (And there's free parking.)

Here are details from The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium:

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium's Spring Workshop is less than a month away. This year, the theme is Payment Reform: Achieving the Three-Part Aim?.

The movement toward reforming the payment system is accelerating rapidly, and Massachusetts is a national leader in changing from a fee-for-service to a value-based payment model. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has challenged the healthcare system to achieve the three-part aim: better care for individuals, better health for populations, and reduced expenditures for CMS program beneficiaries. This conference will address why payment reform is needed, and explore how to change the payment system while improving quality, reducing costs, and ensuring adequate access to care.

Our keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Galvin of Blackstone Consulting, will discuss why we should transform the payment system. Following the keynote address, Charlie Baker of General Catalyst Partners and Paul Levy, formerly of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will discuss if changing the payment system is what is needed. Their conversation will be moderated by Carey Goldberg of WBUR’s CommonHealth. In addition, we will have panel discussions on why cost control is critical and how to maintain quality and access in a new payment system.

You can view the agenda here. The event is on April 12, from 8:30-3:30 at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport.

This program aired on March 15, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.

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Rachel Zimmerman previously reported on health and the intersection of health and business for WBUR. She is working on a memoir about rebuilding her family after her husband’s suicide. 

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