Webinars | May 17, 2014

Payment Reform 101: Why Payment Reform? What is it?

Mary Beth Dyer, Michael Bailit and Richard Slusky, Bailit Health Purchasing

The first webinar in a three-part series on payment reform, this presentation by Bailit Health Purchasing addresses how traditional fee-for-service payment impedes state efforts to purchase value and describes the relationship between payment and delivery system reform. The webinar also highlights the role and influence of public purchasers in health care, reviews types of payment reform models being used by state purchasers and providse an overview of where payment reform is happening across the U.S. A state official offers insights into why his state opted to pursue payment reform and how it selected the models to implement.



Expert Perspectives

May 9, 2022

HHS Letter to the FCC on Text Messaging: Model Comments to Inform State Comment Letters in Support

On May 3, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened a public comment period for feedback on a letter submitted by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. The letter requests the FCC’s opinion on the use of text messages and automated calls to enrollees as states resume regular operations at the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. The public comment period is an opportunity for states to share how text messages and automated phone calls are needed to reach enrollees. This expert perspective provides model comments to inform and support state responses to the FCC’s public comment period. States must submit all comments by Tuesday, May 17, 2022.