NCQA convened a one-day conference entitled Pay for Performance: A Critical Examination on December 1, 2006. Leading experts debated and discussed the effectiveness of Pay for Performance, the method of rewarding providers based on quality instead of quantity, as a means to improve the quality and affordability of health care. They also discussed the impact of the recent elections on the health care policy landscape.
A monograph of this event is available here.
When: December 1, 2006
Where: Washington Court Hotel
525 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
Event Highlights
"Will Pay for Performance Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care?”
A point/counterpoint discussion featuring:
- The Honorable Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House; Founder, Center for Health Transformation
- Bruce Vladeck, Former Administrator, U.S. Health Care Financing Administration; Interim President, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
"How Will the New Congressional Leadership Approach Pay for Performance for Physicians, Hospitals, Health Plans, and Others?"
- Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.); Incoming Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Health
Other distinguished speakers included:
- Margaret O’Kane, President, NCQA
- Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., Senior Vice President, Consumer Health and Medical Care Advancement, UnitedHealth Group
- Robert Galvin, M.D., Director, Global Health Care, General Electric
- Jeffrey Rideout, M.D., Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group, Global Healthcare Practice and Corporate Medical Director, Cisco Systems
- Stephen C. Schoenbaum, M.D., Executive Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund
- Ronald Bangasser, M.D., Director of External Affairs, Beaver Medical Group, Integrated Healthcare Association
- R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the University of California-San Francisco