PBGH in the News

PBGH's DRIVE Health Initiative calls on Congress, the President, and new HHS Secretary to renew government's commitment to value-based health care.

Bill Kramer, PBGH's Executive Director for National Health Policy, is interviewed in this article from Managed Care.

PBGH shared with CMS its vision for the health care system and ways to enhance the impact of models tested and expanded under the Innovation Center's purview.

David Lansky co-authored this opinion piece with the Jeff Micklos.  Read the full article in The Hill here .

Read the article Why One California County Went Surgery Shopping here.

The DRIVE Health Initiative is discussed in this new opinion piece in The Hill.  Read the article here.

PBGH signed on to C-P Alliance’s comment letter, urging CMS to close the gap between the MIPS and Advanced APM tracks in MIPS

PBGH, along with 19 other consumer and purchaser organizations, signed on to C-P Alliance's comment letter, urging CMS to adopt only high-value measures - that is, those that are meaningful, important, and actionable - in its hospital accountability programs including the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR), the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP), the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACR), the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), and the PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting Program (PCHQR). We caution CMS against making any changes to these programs to reduce burden without considering the trade-offs in availability of information.

PBGH's Olivia Ross co-authored an article in the Harvard Business Review about large employers that directly purchase bundled care for their employees through selected providers. Read more