For the last several years, U.S. private and government healthcare payers have been experimenting with quality improvement initiatives and various reimbursement changes.  In some cases, they are tying quality and outcomes directly to provider payment levels.  So it is not surprising that both the House and Senate reform bills include more of these types of provisions. 

Philips Healthcare would like to invite you to a free webinar entitled Reimbursement and Quality under Health Reform on January 28, 2010, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m., ET. A panel of three health policy thought-leaders, Gail Wilensky, Former Administrator of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Murray Ross, Vice President of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan; and Alex Calcagno, Director of Federal Relations of Massachusetts Medical Society will discuss how U.S. health reform may impact reimbursement, what policies are under consideration in the proposed legislation, and what new measures will be enforced to evaluate performance and quality.

Moderated by Philips Healthcare Senior Director of Global Reimbursement Policy Laurel Sweeney, this event is intended to give participants a better understanding of reimbursement health policy issues. Register for this webinar.

You can find past webinars in the “Reimbursement Simplified” series on the Philips website. 

For more information on reimbursement and health reform, check out this video focused on reimbursement and imaging entitled “A View from the Hill” from the 2009 RSNA conference.

Tom