Value considerations, including price and quality, are beginning to transform how consumers make healthcare decisions. As a result, health plans need to provide information that is useful to consumers, instead of just publishing technical data, experts say.
More than half of payer organizations report plans to make significant investments in transparency initiatives this year, according to a recent survey by Health Industry Insights. Transparency is an important step toward health care reform that reshapes the entire delivery system, most industry stakeholders believe.
"Transparency is at the heart of a more integrated, efficient, and effective healthcare system. To respond successfully to healthcare market business and performance mandates, healthcare payers must manage their provider relationships with greater care, efficiency, and agility than ever before. Healthcare information transparency requires efficient automation processes, integration of cost, benefit and care management information, and a consistent delivery of information to all stakeholders at the point of decision," said Janice Young, program director for Healthcare Industry Insights.
What are the key healthcare payer transparency strategies and initiatives this year? How can current provider criticisms of health plan transparency be overcome? And what are the requirements to be successful?
Learn how leading US healthcare payers are approaching transparency and what future opportunities transparency will lead to in the future. Join The Managed Care Information Center and attend “Health Plan Transparency Strategies and Initiatives: Investing in Today's Market and Business Mandates,” that took place in June 2008.
Agenda
- Key findings of recent Health Industry Insight survey highlighting transparency and processing strategies of leading U.S. healthcare payers
- How transparency and efficiency mandates are propelling healthcare payers to invest in required systems
- Why a provider network management process and information flow is critical
- How will health plan transparency solutions evolve over the next one to three years?
- What future opportunities will transparency provide for healthcare payors?
- Case Study: Details on Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s new Blue Distinction program, a collaboration with leading hospitals, physicians and medical societies
- Case Study: How MN Community Measurement brought together the Minnesota Medical Association and seven Minnesota health plans to publicly report health care quality information
- Details on the impact from this community-wide transparency solution
- Question and answer session
Health plans, hospitals and health systems, PHO and IPA's,
pharmaceutical and disease management companies, medical device
manufacturers, healthcare technology companies, TPAs, PBMs,
associations, government officials, and employers with
titles:
CEOs, COOs, CIOs, hospital and managed care executives, vice
president of operations, vice president of finance, business
development, strategic and implementation consultants, medical
directors, sales executives and marketers, network services, public
relations executives, compliance officers, operations executives,
executive directors, team leaders, planners, product managers,
knowledge managers, department heads, pharmacists, human resource
benefit managers, employer health plan decision makers, network
development and provider services directors, strategic planners,
utilization management, network managers, physician practice
management, medical staff leadership, medical management directors,
analysts, implementer
consultants, account services, administration executives, ancillary
products managers.
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