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Health Care Purchasers Need to Hit the “Play” (not the “Pause”) Button on Value-Based Purchasing Strategies
October 26, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
This month’s letter is written by Deputy Director Susie Dade on a timely topic, the impact of purchasers on value-based purchasing strategies – one of her many areas of expertise.... Read more »September 2018 Letter from the Executive Director: Nancy Giunto to Testify on Transparency Before Senate Subcommittee
September 12, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
On a hot, smoky, not-so-transparent day in Seattle last month, I received an email from a staff member of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee inquiring... Read more »August 2018 Letter from the Executive Director: The Why and How of Health Care Affordability
August 14, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
“Americans aren’t buying more health care overall than other countries. But what they are buying is increasingly expensive.” I’m sure this quote from the recent Wall Street Journal article “Why... Read more »Building our next health system: Highlights from the Lown Conference
April 17, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
The Lown Institute’s Annual Conference was held last week, with the theme of “Breaking the cycle of high cost and low value: America’s next health system.” The Alliance’s Deputy Director,... Read more »New Study Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Washington Patients Receive Unnecessary Tests, Procedures, and Treatments
February 1, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
In one year, an estimated $282 million was spent on “wasteful” health care for 622,000 Washington patients Washington becomes just the third state in the nation to use a new... Read more »Takeaways from the National Affordability Summit
October 2, 2017 by Nancy A. Giunto
Last month I shared that the Alliance received a scholarship through the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement’s Getting to Affordability initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for registration... Read more »Reporting on Pricing a Critical Step in Alliance’s Promotion of Transparency
May 16, 2017 by Nancy A. Giunto
At the Alliance, we define high-value health care as high quality and good patient experience at a fair price. Over the past eleven years, and with the help and support... Read more »Price transparency gets graded in new report
August 5, 2016 by Washington Health Alliance
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) and the Catalyst for Payment Reform recently released their fourth report card on State Price Transparency Laws. Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and... Read more »Washington state lags behind on health care cost transparency
May 11, 2016 by Nancy A. Giunto
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the National Employer Leadership Seminar, an invitation-only event sponsored by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI). The goal of... Read more »New study finds stark difference in prices between private insurance and Medicare
December 15, 2015 by Washington Health Alliance
A report released today from the Health Care Pricing Project highlights the stark difference between Medicare and private health insurance pricing for common health procedures. The report has garnered media attention,... Read more »