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Overview

The primary goal of the 2008 Summit is to continue the important ongoing dialogue about the appropriate role and structure of pay for performance in both the private and public sectors. This includes exploring key policy issues and practical challenges for implementing pay for performance, its potential to achieve meaningful improvements in healthcare access, quality and efficiency, and its influence on payment reform and value-based purchasing. These are relevant, dynamic topics in light of new and proposed health care reforms, increased engagement in pay for performance by Medicare and Medicaid, new research, and findings from the practical experiences of pay for performance programs both nationally and internationally.

Summit topics will include presentations, panel discussions and case studies from leading researchers, policy experts and pay for performance administrators. Technical experts in performance measurement, data collection, public reporting and incentive design will also lend their experience and perspectives to the Summit proceedings.

Key topics will include:

  • Designing Pay for Performance Programs
  • Medicare Hospital and Physician Pay for Performance Programs
  • State Medicaid Pay for Performance Programs
  • Standardizing Performance Measurement
  • Efficiency Measurement in Pay for Performance
  • Aligning Payment Reform and Care Integration
  • Latest Research Findings in Pay for Performance
  • Information Technology: Its Role in Pay for Performance
  • Data Collection: Practical Challenges and Solutions
  • Transparency and Public Reporting
  • Pay for Performance and Health Disparities
  • Integrating Cultural Competency in Pay for Performance
  • Specialty Care and Pay for Performance
  • Case Studies: Physician and Hospital Pay for Performance Programs

Featuring Mini-Summits On:

  • Mini Summit I: Case Studies in Physician Engagement in P4P
  • Mini Summit II: Medicaid Pay for Performance Programs
  • Mini Summit III: Making Performance Measurement Work
  • Mini Summit IV: Health Disparities and Pay for Performance
  • Mini Summit V: Standardizing and Scoring Health Plan-based P4P Programs
  • Mini Summit VI: Building Successful Efficiency Measurement: Lessons from the Field
  • Mini Summit VII: Value Based Benefit Design and Pay for Performance
  • Mini Summit VIII: Designing Reimbursement, Payment and Incentives
Who Should Attend:

Chief Executive Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Board Members, Executive Directors, Nurses, Health Information Managers, Healthcare Compliance Officers, Accountants, Senior Managers, and Consultants of Health Plans, Health Systems, Hospitals and Physician Organizations, Pharmacy, and Pharmacy Benefit Managers responsible for:

  • Benefits Consulting and Management
  • Clinical Quality Improvement
  • Clinical Affairs
  • Consumer Organizations
  • Finance and Reimbursement Policy
  • Government Programs
  • Health Care Policy
  • Health Care Purchasing (Private Employers or Public Purchasers)
  • Health Care Law and Regulatory Affairs
  • Health Services Research and Academics
  • Medical Affairs
  • Medical Management
  • Medicare and Medicaid Programs
  • Network Contracting and Management
  • Payment Policy
  • Pharmacy Management
  • Pharmacy Benefit Management
  • Physician Services
  • Practice Management
  • Provider Relations
  • Quality Management
  • Value-Based Purchasing Strategy
Why Attend?

Whether participants are healthcare providers, health plan administrators, purchasers, consumers, or regulators, all will gain a better understanding of each stakeholder perspective on Pay for Performance measurement and transparency. Presentations and panel discussions will raise provocative issues and challenges with regards to performance measurement and management, and value-driven healthcare. The Summit offers dialogue with industry leaders on best practice solutions and case studies.

Purpose Statement

To increase knowledge on policy issues and practical challenges for implementing pay for performance and its influence on improving healthcare access and value based purchasing.

Learning Objectives:
  • Explain the role of pay for performance and the impact it has on the stakeholders.
  • Identify the challenges of performance measurements.
  • Describe the framework for performance measurement standards.
  • Outline ways to expand pay for performance in a value driven healthcare market



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