Starting tomorrow, the ticket prices for our June 24 breakfast are going up so register today for this interactive forum that takes a deep dive into the rising costs of healthcare.
Oregon Health Forum is bringing a national expert to town, Harold Miller, president and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
The event gets underway at 6:45 a.m., and runs until 9:15 at the Multnomah Athletic Club located at 1849 SW Salmon. We expect a sold-out crowd, and this is definitely an event you won’t want to miss.
Our other panelists include:
- Mylia Christensen, Executive Director, Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation
- Brian DeVore, Vice President, National Healthcare, Thought Leader
- James Raussen, Director, Oregon Educators Benefit Board
- Dr. Michael Rohwer, Founder, Community Health Innovation Accelerator Project and Former CEO, PH Tech
- Dr. Evan Saulino, Clinical Advisor, Oregon’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program
“The fact that a payment system is different from the traditional fee-for-service payment system does not automatically mean that it is better," according to Miller. "Many of the alternative payment models currently being implemented in Medicare not only fail to solve the problems in the current payment system, they can actually make things worse for physicians who want to improve care and reduce spending.”
In his talk, Miller will explain the latest CMS initiatives including the new Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), Comprehensive Primary Care Plus and other new innovations in payment reform, and share his perspective about the unique opportunities and barriers in Oregon and provide recommendations for how employers, physicians, hospitals, and other stakeholders can use the provisions in federal law and regulations to support success in Oregon.
MACRA permanently repeals the Sustainable Growth Rate, establishes a framework for rewarding clinicians for value over volume, streamlines quality reporting programs into one system and reauthorizes two years of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Miller, an adjunct professor of public policy and management at Carnegie Mellon University, is a nationally-recognized expert on healthcare payment and delivery reform. He has twice given invited testimony to Congress on how to reform healthcare payment, he has worked in more than
40 states and metropolitan regions to help physicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, and government agencies design and implement payment and delivery system reforms, and he assisted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with the implementation of its Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative in 2012.
Miller is also one of the eleven members of the federal Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee that was created by Congress to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the creation of alternative payment models.
This event is being co-sponsored by Advantage Dental, FamilyCare and PH Tech. If your organization is interested in co-sponsoring this breakfast forum or has ideas for future events, please contact Diane Lund-Muzikant, executive director.
Oregon Health Forum is the educational arm of The Lund Report and collaborates with other nonprofit organizations to sponsor monthly breakfast forums.
