As scientists and clinicians race to develop effective treatments to improve survival from COVID-19 and a vaccine to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Health Affairs has launched a new project to help identify for policy makers the critical decisions they will face that will have a substantial effect on whether and how quickly society reaps the benefits of these advances.

You are invited to join us on Monday, August 24, for a virtual symposium when some of the top minds in the field will join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for a discussion of these issues.

Featuring:

Margaret A. Hamburg, Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
Orin Levine, Director, Global Delivery Programs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Rena M. Conti, Dean’s Research Scholar, Questrom School of Business, Boston University; Associate Professor, Markets, Public Policy, And Law, Associate Research Director, Institute For Health System Innovation And Policy
Mark Feinberg, President and CEO, IAVI
Nicole Lurie, Strategic Adviser to the CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School; and former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, US Department of Health and Human Services
Rebecca Lynn Weintraub, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Gavin Mark Yamey, Professor, Practice of Global Health, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Others to be announced

Health Affairs is grateful to the following sponsors for their support of this work and this symposium: Anthem, Inc., Amgen, Inc., Avalere, Kaiser Permanente, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Gilead Sciences, McKesson, Quest Diagnostics, Dynavax, Alexion, and Danaher.

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

After COVID-19, A Payment Policy Reboot: Three Lessons From The Pandemic On How To Improve Value-Based Payment
By Amol S. Navathe and Joshua M. Liao

Prior to COVID-19, payment policy had largely involved incremental changes. While positive, this approach has been insufficient on its own to move Medicare off its unsustainable course toward insolvency. COVID-19 provides a powerful wake-up call to address these issues. Read More >>

How To Ensure COVID-19 Doesn’t Delay Value-Based Care
By Soleil Shah and Bob Kocher

The longer we proceed under pure fee-for-service models, the longer health care costs will spiral with limited improvements in quality. We suggest supporting the adoption and existence of accountable care organizations; creating opportunities for new value-based payments; and preventing the loss of value-based opportunities via private equity or large hospital network acquisitions. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

RESEARCH ARTICLE: ORGANIZATION OF CARE

Financial Integration’s Impact On Care Delivery And Payment Reforms: A Survey Of Hospitals And Physician Practices
By Elliott S. Fisher, Stephen M. Shortell, A. James O’Malley, Taressa K. Fraze, Andrew Wood, Marisha Palm, Carrie H. Colla, Meredith B. Rosenthal, Hector P. Rodriguez, Valerie A. Lewis, Steven Woloshin, Nilay Shah, and Ellen Meara

Elliott Fisher and coauthors write that national data on what different types of health care organizations are actually doing to improve care are "largely missing from the existing literature." This article aims to address this knowledge gap to determine the relationship between financial integration of hospitals and physician practices and better quality, as measured by higher levels of adoption of care delivery and payment reforms. Read More >>

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