Payment and Delivery Reform: Can Implementation Keep Up with Policy?

In December 2012, AcademyHealth’s Research Insights project convened an expert meeting of leading academic researchers together with policy audiences to discuss how well physicians, organizations, and payers respond to and implement strategies to improve value in the U.S. health care system. Based on this discussion, a Research Insights report was released in April 2013. The report summarizes the meeting’s discussions from the different participant perspectives: payers, patients, and providers (including both clinical organizations and individual physicians). The report underscores the need for more precise performance measurement and better data as key issues for successful payment reform efforts.