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Rewarding Results Pay-4-Performance Press Conference, November 15, 2005

With Looming Congressional Action On P4P, Experts Share Findings
From One Of The Largest And Most Diverse P4P Projects

 
A growing number of private and public health care payers, including Medicare, are embracing pay for performance (P4P) as a means to improve the health of patients and foster new behaviors from physicians.  But little is known about its real-life application. After nearly three years of study, a group of seven participants from one of the largest and most diverse P4P experiments in the U.S. will offer insight into how offering incentives has led to better, safer and more cost-efficient care.

Leaders from the national Rewarding Results project representing employers, health plans, hospitals, physicians, and consumers will share results of their quality-incentive models and discuss whether P4P has improved care for people with chronic illnesses and enabled health plans to treat sicker populations without spending more.  The group’s report on their three-year experiment comes amid Senate efforts to attach a P4P measure to the budget reconciliation bill now moving through Congress. 
 
Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D., of The Leapfrog Group, which provides technical assistance to the Rewarding Results project that is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund, will moderate a reactor panel of medical experts to discuss the merits of P4P and how it fits into the national quality improvement agenda. Panelists will include Barry Straube, MD, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Brent James, MD, a national leader on quality.  

When:     Tuesday, November 15, 2005
                9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. [Continental breakfast will be available]

Where:    National Press Club, Murrow-White-Lisagor Room

Who:     
-Suzanne Delbanco, CEO, The Leapfrog Group
-Ronald Bangasser, MD, Chair, Technical Committee, Integrated Healthcare Association
-Barbra Rabson, Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
-Elaine Batchlor, MD, Chief Medical Officer, L.A. Care Health Plan, Local Initiative Rewarding Results Project
-Carl Volpe, Vice President, Strategic Health Partnerships, Blue Cross of CA 
-Martin Hickey, MD, Senior Vice President, Excellus
-David Share, MD, Clinical Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
-Francois de Brantes, President, Bridges to Excellence
                   
Reactor Panel
-Brent James, MD, Vice President for Medical Research and Executive Director, Intermountain Health Care’s Institute for Health Care Delivery Research 
-Barry Straube, MD, Acting Director & Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS
-Peter Basch, MD, practicing physician and Medical Director, MedStar e-Health

For more information, or to reserve a space for the November 15 event, please contact Tai Milder at Burness Communications, 301/652-1558, x199 or e-mail him at: tai@burnesscommunications.com

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