To reform the payment system to promote and reward high quality, patient-centered care that is cost-effective and reduces disparities. Payment should foster improvement and innovation and effectively slow the growth of health care costs.
Unique Focus
The CPR represents a broad group of stakeholders and is:
- Fostering alignment between public and private sectors around payment reform
- Focusing on how payment changes are determined in addition to what changes occur
- Highlighting unintended consequences of proposed changes with recommendations to mitigate
- Leading payment reform on private side
Actions
- Principles for payment reform
- Framework and market assessments
- Action briefs to guide strategy for reforming payment
- Value assessments and a national scorecard
- Common sourcing tools, including standardized RFP/contract language
- Policy and advocacy to align payment within and across sectors