Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR)
Driving Payment Reform — A Roadmap for 2019
At the Quality Institute, we begin 2019 with a baseline for where we are on payment reform in New Jersey — and a greater understanding of the challenges ahead. As the lead New Jersey partner of Catalyst for Payment Reform’s (CPR) Scorecard 2.0, we worked with CPR as they assessed payment reform activity in New…Read More…
Scoring Payment Reform in the Garden State
Two numbers struck me after reading Catalyst for Payment Reform’s New Jersey Scorecard: 80 and 20. In our state’s commercial market, the share of total dollars paid to specialists (outpatient and inpatient) is 80 percent compared with just 20 percent to primary care providers. The national figures are only slightly better: 75 and 25 percent….Read More…
NJ Upends How Doctors Get Paid, So Why Do Vaccination, C-section Rates Lag?
Published on Asbury Park Press.com. New Jersey doctors and hospitals are increasingly paid based on quality, but patients aren’t getting the care they need to prevent illnesses and bigger bills down the road, a report released Tuesday said. Despite incentives to promote good health, the report by Catalyst for Payment Reform found New Jersey has fewer vaccinations, more C-section deliveries and…Read More…
52% of Commercial Payments to Doctors and Hospitals in the Garden State Now Tied to Value
New scorecard finds overwhelming majority of payments are still based on fee-for-service PRINCETON, NJ – September 25, 2018 – Over half of the health care payments (52%) paid to doctors and hospitals in New Jersey by the private sector contain incentives to improve the cost and quality of care patients receive. However, a closer examination of these value-oriented…Read More…
Measuring the Impact of Payment Reform
At the Quality Institute, we believe payment reform can drive quality and reduce costs — and help make sure we only pay for health care that’s truly valuable to patients. We’re working hard with our partners to collect data and measure quality as we drive alternative payment models that move us away from fee-for-service. Are our…Read More…
Take Five with CPR’s Suzanne Delbanco
Suzanne Delbanco is Executive Director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, a non-profit corporation working to catalyze employers, public purchasers, and others to implement strategies that produce higher value health care. Delbanco will be the keynote speaker of the Quality Institute’s All Council Conference: Power of the Purchaser, on May 16. For large employers that self-fund…Read More…
Listen In: Linda Schwimmer on what’s happening in New Jersey
Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) Program Director, Andrea Caballero, dials up Linda Schwimmer, to hear about the challenges and successes of the health care marketplace in the Garden State, and to discuss CPR’s Payment Reform Scorecard 2.0 pilot initiative. Listen in here! And click here to learn more about CPR’s Scorecard 2.0!Read More…
New Jersey to Put Payment Reform Scorecard to the Test
New Jersey to Put Payment Reform Scorecard to the Test Mary Caffrey Despite the unrest in Washington, DC, payment reform is very much alive in markets across the country, as employers and large purchasers of healthcare look for new ways to deliver care. In fact, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a group of progressive purchasers…Read More…
Health care institute hopes program will show if payment reform works
Published on Return on Information New Jersey by Anjalee Khemlani.. Is the much-touted value-based reimbursement model, in which providers get paid for care of a patient rather than per procedure, working? It’s a question the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center is asking the public. CMS has been the driver of the preventative care model,…Read More…
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute to Spearhead Catalyst for Payment Reform’s New Jersey Scorecard
Catalyst for Payment Reform has selected New Jersey as one of three states where the progress of payment reform will be measured. The initiative aims to improve health quality and reduce costs. Published on PRWEB. Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a non-profit corporation working to improve the quality of health care while also reducing costs,…Read More…