Appendix B
Workshop Agenda
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
- Explore innovative financing and payment strategies across a range of settings for people of all ages facing serious illness.
- Identify existing barriers to scale and spread of financing and payment innovations.
- Examine potential policy actions to address barriers to innovation.
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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