Financing and Payment Strategies to Support High-Quality Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop
Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street, NW, Room 100
Washington, DC 20001
November 29, 2017
Workshop Objectives
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
| 8:00 am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Welcome from the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness |
| Leonard D. Schaeffer (Chair) and James A. Tulsky (Vice Chair) | |
| Overview of the Workshop | |
| Mark Ganz and Haiden Huskamp, Planning Committee Co-Chairs |
| 8:40 am | Session 1: Financing High-Quality Care for People with Serious Illness |
| Moderator: Haiden Huskamp, Ph.D., 30th Anniversary Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School | |
| Session 1A: Patient–Caregiver–Clinician Perspective | |
| Interview with a patient/family caregiver and his clinician. | |
| Interviewer: Patricia Bomba, M.D., Vice President and Medical Director, Geriatrics, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield | |
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| 9:20 am | Session 1B: Framing the Challenges and Opportunities for Financing and Payment Innovation |
| Overview of the current financing landscape for care for people with serious illness, including the gaps, challenges, and opportunities; overarching framework of different payment models for people of all ages, all stages of serious illness. | |
| Moderator: Haiden Huskamp | |
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| Audience Q & A | |
| 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:30 am | Session 2: Financing and Payment Innovations: Challenges, Impact, and Lessons Learned from Fee-for-Service and Value-Based Payment Arrangements |
| This session will explore examples of challenges and opportunities for innovation in fee-for-service and value-based payment systems across a range of settings and patient populations. Speakers will discuss lessons learned from their efforts to implement innovative financing and payment arrangements and identify the key barriers to such innovation. | |
| Moderator: Harold L. Paz, M.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Aetna | |
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| Panel Discussion/Audience Q & A | |
| 12:00 pm | Luncheon Keynote Speakers |
| 12:00–12:45 pm | |
| Members of Congress have been invited to discuss the legislative and policy environment related to care for people with serious illness. |
| U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Finance | |
| U.S. Representative Phil Roe (R-TN), Chair, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs | |
| Buffet Lunch | |
| 12:45–1:40 pm | |
| 1:45 pm | Session 3: Financing and Payment Innovations: Challenges, Impact, and Lessons Learned in Global Budgeting Arrangements |
| This session will explore examples of challenges and opportunities for innovation in global budgeting arrangements across a range of settings and patient populations. Speakers will discuss lessons learned from their efforts to implement innovative financing and payment arrangements and identify the key barriers to such innovation. | |
| Moderator: Cheryl Phillips, M.D., President and CEO, SNP Alliance | |
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| Panel Discussion/Audience Q & A |
| 3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Session 4A: Regulatory and Policy Changes to Ensure High-Quality Care for People of All Ages with Serious Illness |
| Dr. Conway will share his insights and perspectives on policy and regulatory changes to ensure high-quality care for people with serious illness. | |
| Moderator: Mark Ganz, President and CEO, Cambia Health Solutions | |
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| 3:50 pm | Session 4B: Next Steps |
| This session will focus on policy changes necessary at the federal and state levels to address barriers to financing and payment innovation to support high-quality care for people with serious illness. | |
| Moderator and Discussant: Patrick Conway | |
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| Panel Discussion/Audience Q & A | |
| 5:15 pm | Wrap-Up and Adjourn |
| Mark Ganz and Haiden Huskamp |
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