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On June 26, NIHCM hosted a policy briefing on Capitol Hill.

THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA: A POLICY FORUM

• When: Friday June 26, 9am to 12pm (breakfast served at 8:30am)
• Where:  Rayburn Office Building, Room B339
  

A distinguished panel of policy experts and marketplace leaders engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of the future of health care in America, providing a broad perspective on the major issues facing the Obama administration and Congress as they tackle health care reform this year

Additional Information

• Video Archive as broadcast on CSPAN
  
• AGENDA
• SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
• SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
  
  • Robert Reischauer, The Urban Institute
  • Cleve Killingsworth and Andrew Dreyfus, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Paul Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health System Change
  • Patrick Geraghty, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
  • Mark McClellan,  The Brookings Institution
  • Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University; also see his New York Times blog, Economix

NIHCM hosted a conference on December 1, 2008 at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, DC. 

MANAGING HEALTH SYSTEM CAPACITY: MARKET AND POLICY APPROACHES

The number of hospitals, physicians and other providers affects the amount of care delivered to American patients and the value received from our health care spending. Some capacity expansions produce benefits that exceed their costs, yet the reverse may be true when overuse of expensive goods and services occurs. A better understanding of the effects and drivers of capacity changes and identification of strategies to manage capacity growth are essential for improving the efficiency and quality of our health care system.

The conference provided an in-depth examination of the critical issues surrounding health system capacity:

• How does the supply of hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers affect utilization of services, health spending, and quality of care?
• How can pricing be improved to remove distortions that influence relative prices and drive capacity investments and use?
• What types of informational, organizational and financial changes could help to align providers’ incentives to deliver care more efficiently?
• What are private-sector payers and providers doing to promote more efficient use of existing capacity?
• Is state health planning an effective tool for managing system capacity?

Additonal information

• Agenda
• Conference Video
  
• Speaker Biographies
  
• Speaker Presentations
• The Challenges of Health System Capacity Growth by Laurence C. Baker, PhD
  
• Bibliography of Relevant Literature
  

NIHCM funded a white paper, produced by the Barents Group LLC (now BearingPoint), analyzing the wide variety of markets for health insurance, the many state approaches to regulation, and potential effects of federal and state reform on this fragile market. It was presented at a National Health Policy Forum briefing. A series of three issue briefs on the subject are also available. See Health Care Reform Publications .

NIHCM Foundation produced a series focused on state and private sector efforts to reform health care. It included reports on health care problem variations; Medicaid managed care; state employee benefit programs and types of state health care reform. See Health Care Reform Publications.