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The German Health Care System and its Impact on Patient Access – Lessons for the U.S.

12/12/2022

 
Since its inception over a decade ago, PIPC has focused on infusing patient-centricity in our health care system. We have been highly focused on patient-centered solutions for evidence-based decision-making, including advocating for the development of high-quality patient reported outcomes data and development of high quality patient-centered comparative clinical effective research, as well as opposing reliance on one-size fits all cost-effectiveness thresholds. Our goal is for high-quality patient-centered data to equip and empower patients and people with disabilities to make decisions, with their providers, about the care and treatment best to address their individual needs.

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Aligning Health Technology Assessment with Efforts to Advance Health Equity

11/4/2022

 
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The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC),  Global Liver Institute, National Minority Quality Forum, and the Preparedness & Treatment Equity Coalition have published a new report (executive summary) to assist ​organizations, health systems, payers, and policymakers that want to center their value assessment work on health equity.


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PIPC White Paper: Targeted Literature Review on Patient-Centered Cost Outcomes

11/16/2020

 
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​In September 2020, the Board of Governors for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) approved the proposed Principles for the Consideration of the Full Range of Outcomes Data for public comment. The goal of these principles is to outline PCORI’s compliance with its reauthorization legislation, which states that, in addition to clinical outcomes, research should also endeavor to capture patient-important outcomes that assess the economic burden of treatments and services. 

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Issue Brief: Traditional Value Assessment Methods Fail Communities of Color and Exacerbate Health Inequities

9/28/2020

 
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As healthcare costs in the United States have continued to grow, there has been an increasing desire to move towards “value-based” care in which patients and payers would be paying for the “value” of the treatment patients receive. This idea has been gaining particular momentum as policymakers look for strategies to curtail spending on pharmaceuticals. While there is merit in paying for services and treatments that work and eliminating wasteful spending, it is important to step back and consider to whom “value” is being provided. As the ultimate beneficiary, we would advocate that the measure of “value” in a healthcare setting should focus on value to the patient, but currently, we are concerned that the trend is to look towards “value” to the payer by prioritizing reduced cost over care outcomes for patients in the form of cost-effectiveness analyses. 


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White Paper: Value for Whom? Incorporating Patient Perspectives into Value Assessment for Novel Cell and Gene Therapies

9/21/2020

 
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​Cell and gene therapies (C&GTs) are revolutionary advancements that offer potentially life-altering therapies – and in some cases even cures – for patients with rare and severe diseases. Around the globe, various health technology assessment (HTA) and value assessment organizations are attempting to estimate the health and economic value of new C&GTs to better inform healthcare decision making. These organizations most commonly employ cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), which seeks to determine whether the costs of a given therapy are justified by its benefits; that is, whether it is a “good buy.”


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Responding to Stakeholder Input: Finding the Patient Voice in ICER's Value Assessments

10/1/2018

 
PIPC has partnered with Xcenda to quantify the extent to which ICER incorporates stakeholder input in its final assessments, particularly patients.  Upon review of submitted comments, and comparing those comments to ICER’s final value assessments, Xcenda was able to quantify that patient perspectives were half as likely to be incorporated than other stakeholders. The report published today by PIPC bolsters their argument that ICER needs to take steps to improve not only its process for engagement, but also its consideration of input received from patients. 

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White Paper: Uses and Misuses of the QALY - Ethical Issues and Alternative Measures of Value

6/21/2017

 
Value assessment in general, and the use of cost-effectiveness in particular, is receiving renewed interest as a tool for controlling health care spending. Currently, the most common method for determining incremental cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions is based on a calculation of quality-adjusted-life-years (QALYs). While the model has a basic appeal for making population-level decisions (by reducing patient populations to single, aggregate numeric values), it also poses several significant concerns from the vantage point of patient-centeredness and efforts to preserve access to needed care for individual patients and people with disabilities.  Of particular concern to me are the implications of use of QALYs for discrimination against people with disabilities, and its conflicting goals from the goals of personalized medicine.


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White Paper: A Roadmap to Increased Patient Engagement at CMMI

12/7/2016

 
The health care system is moving to models that seek to pay for value. In January 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accelerated the movement towards value-based payments by setting a goal to shift 50 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative payment models (APMs) by 2018.1 The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is playing a significant role in advancing value-based or alternative payment models. In addition, many State health agencies and private payers are exploring similar changes. However, CMMI and other payers lack sound procedures and standards for patient-centeredness. Patient-centered approaches to value-based payment are needed to ensure that new payment models support value that matters to patients. To get it right, patient engagement is essential.

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White Paper: A Roadmap to Increased Patient Engagement in Value Assessment

12/7/2016

 
​Value frameworks and similar value assessment tools are playing an increasingly prominent role in health care as insurance companies, Medicare, state agencies, and other stakeholders all are working rapidly toward "value-based" payment models. But will they pay for care that patients value? The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) was founded on principles of patient-centeredness that cannot be achieved without engaging patients and people with disabilities. For the transition to a value-based health system to achieve outcomes that matter to patients, patients must have a seat at the table in defining value through the development of the value frameworks and tools.

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White Paper: Building a Patient-Centered Health System

10/9/2014

 
Today, the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) released a new White Paper on patient-centeredness in alternative payment models (APMs).  This White Paper represents an important step in PIPC’s discussion of the application of comparative effectiveness research, and should serve as an important tool for policymakers in considering the future of value-based payment models

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