Purchaser Business Group On Health

Programs: Redesign carepbgh works side-by-side with physicians and other practitioners to redesign how care is delivered, align payment with optimal care design, and support providers to deliver optimal care, experience, and price. Pbgh's programs include ones that provide care management for high-need, high-cost patients (those with multiple, serious chronic conditions) and those that spread best practices for common care episodes (for example, maternity), as well as programs that train physicians to provide high-quality, patient-centered care, prevent patients from receiving duplicate services, and reduce unnecessary visits to emergency departments and hospitals. These programs aim to engage patients in their own care, an approach that speeds a patient's recovery and return to work.

influence policypbgh works to help policymakers create public policies that improve care, moderate costs, and ensure a sustainable healthcare system. Pbgh's programs include efforts to identify and disseminate policy recommendations that support value-based delivery and payment, use of measures to support value-based delivery and payment, data transparency, and the fostering of competitive markets. Pbgh educates and engages policymakers, employers, providers, and consumers on effective policies for improving quality and affordability of healthcare for all.

accelerate transparencypbgh advances the ability and incentive for providers, purchasers, plans and consumers to access and use information for providing, choosing, and paying for better care. Pbgh's programs include efforts to create public reporting of physician quality measures and to provide practitioners with patients' assessment of their experience of care.