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Audioconference Series Exploring Accountability in Health Care from Four Perspectives

This series of four web-assisted audioconferences will discuss the elements of a quality health care system including value based purchasing, provider incentives, transparency, and performance measurements.  These sessions are sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through NCSL's Critical Health Areas Project (CHAP).  The CHAP project is designed to strengthen the ability of state health policymakers to address four main critical health problem areas --chronic care and quality, healthcare access, addiction prevention and treatment, and providers and workforce.  This series of audioconferences will look at accountability issues through the prism of each of these four areas.

• October 19: Transparency in Health Care

• October 26: Provider Incentives to Improve Care

• November 2: The Outcomes of Addiction Treatment and Approaches to Measuring Performance

• November 9: Using Data and Performance Measures to Evaluate State Health Reform Activities

Quality of Care: Transparency in Health Care
October 19th

***FREE Archive is now available*** Free archive for this webcast is available here.  This webcast was produced by WebEx.

This web-assisted audioconference will explore the idea of transparency in health care, what it means and how consumers can lower their health care costs and receive more effective and higher quality care.  This discussion will include state activities to increase transparency in their systems. 

• Nancy Wilson, Senior Advisor to the Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Patricia Kolodzey, Associate Director-Legislative Affairs, Texas Medical Association

Event Resources:
 Slides
Texas Senate Bill 1731
Texas Hospital Association Analysis of Senate Bill 1731
Texas Hospital Association and Texas Medical Association flyer on Senate Bill 1731

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Workforce: Provider Incentives to Improve Accountability
October 26th

***FREE Archive is now available*** Free archive for this webcast is available here.  This webcast was produced by WebEx.

This web-assisted audioconference will focus on performance measurement from a provider perspective, and will explore pay for performance programs and physician incentives.  Dr. Glaseroff will focus on the challenges and triumphs of California's experience with pay for performance, and will also address what other states can do to build an accountable health system.

• Alan Glaseroff, President of the Humboldt - Del Norte Foundation for Medical Care and chief medical officer of the Humboldt-Del Norte Independent Practice Association

Event Resources:
 Slides

Addiction: The Outcomes of Addiction Treatment and Approaches to Measuring Performance
November 2^nd

***FREE Archive is now available*** Free archive for this webcast is available here.  This webcast was produced by WebEx.

This web-assisted audioconference will help legislators address issues of performance measurement and treatment efficacy in addiction treatment, including performance-based contracting and how states are increasing their return on investments.  Dr. Brooks will discuss new ways to look at treatment effectiveness, the use of outcome measures to improve quality, and legislators' options to promote accountability through performance improvement initiatives.  Ms. Johnson will discuss the Maine Office of Substance Abuse's performance-based contracting with its substance abuse treatment providers.

• Adam Brooks, Ph.D., Scientist, Treatment Research Institute
• Kimberly Johnson, Former Director, Maine Office of Substance Abuse

Event Resources
 Slides

Access to Care: Using Data and Performance Measures to Evaluate State Health Reform Activities
November 9th

***FREE Archive is now available*** Free archive for this webcast is available here.  This webcast was produced by WebEx.

This web-assisted audioconference will explore using data and performance measures to evaluate what works and what doesn't in states' expansion initiatives.  This discussion will include what types of data and research that are most important to help states move forward on health reform.  Mr. Leitz will give an overview on data and performance measures states can use to evaluate their expansion initiatives. Ms. Lipson, who is working on an evaluation of Maine's Dirigo Health, will discuss what types of indicators the study chose to assess Dirigo's progress and the pros and cons of various data types and sources. 

• Scott Leitz, Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health
• Debra Lipson, Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Event Resources
 Slides
Leading the Way? Maine's Initial Experience in Expanding Coverage Through Dirigo Health Reforms

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