Tony Coelho: "Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced new goals intended to move the Medicare program further toward value-driven health care. In addition, Secretary Burwell unveiled a newly launched Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network to support those goals. The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) shares the Secretary’s goal of achieving a more efficient, high-quality and patient-centered health care system.
"Since its founding, PIPC has been at the forefront of patient-centeredness in comparative effectiveness research (CER) – both its generation at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and translation into patient care. Having driven the concept of patient-centeredness in the conduct of research, PIPC looks forward to also bringing the patient voice to the discussion of how to advance patient-centered principles in an evolving health care system. We recognize that policymakers want to shift from health care payment based on volume to “value-based” models.
"As the Secretary seeks to develop and test new payment models for specialty care, starting with oncology care, and institute payments to providers for care coordination for patients with chronic conditions, we also urge consideration of the significant implications these models will have on the patient-centeredness movement, and the related issues of patient access and the physician-patient relationship.
"As part of our ongoing commitment to patient-centeredness in health care, PIPC recently developed a white paper to highlight some of the most important opportunities and issues that must be addressed in translating principles of patient-centeredness into value-based payment. It will be imperative for the newly created Network to include the patient voice so that value for the patient is prioritized."
"As the Secretary seeks to develop and test new payment models for specialty care, starting with oncology care, and institute payments to providers for care coordination for patients with chronic conditions, we also urge consideration of the significant implications these models will have on the patient-centeredness movement, and the related issues of patient access and the physician-patient relationship.
"As part of our ongoing commitment to patient-centeredness in health care, PIPC recently developed a white paper to highlight some of the most important opportunities and issues that must be addressed in translating principles of patient-centeredness into value-based payment. It will be imperative for the newly created Network to include the patient voice so that value for the patient is prioritized."
