Presentations from Expert Witnesses

Review of Analytic Findings from the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy

• Private Health Insurance Premium Trends: Dianna K. Welch, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Senior Consultant, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc. (PPT)  file size 1MB
• Health Expenditure Trends: Deborah Chollet, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (PPT)  file size 4MB

Review of Findings from the Division of Insurance

• Joseph Murphy, Commissioner (PPT) 

Review of Findings from Investigation into Health Care Cost Trends and Cost Drivers

• Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General (PPS)  | Word 

Review of Analytic Findings: Price Variation in Massachusetts Health Services

• Stacey Eccleston, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (PDF) 
• Karen Tseng, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Health Care Division (PDF) 

Expert Witness: Consumers' Role in Cost Containment

• Michael E. Chernew, Ph.D., Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School (PDF) 

Review of Analytic Findings: Alternate Payment Methodologies

• Potential Savings Associated with Bundled Payments: Stacey Eccleston, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (PDF) 
• Susan Brown, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Health Care Division (PDF) 

How Better Payment Systems Can Help Improve Healthcare Quality and Control Costs

• Harold D. Miller, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (PDF)  file size 1MB file size 2MB

Review of Analytic Findings: Health Resource Planning

• Total Medical Expenses: Stephen McCabe, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Health Care Finance and Policy and Dianna Welch, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc. (PDF)  file size 2MB file size 2MB
• Primary Care Access and Supply: Stacey Eccleston, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (PDF) 

Expert Witness: Thinking Creatively About The Health Care System We Need For The 21st Century

• Cathy Schoen, Senior Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund (PDF)  file size 1MB file size 8MB

Review of Analytic Findings: Challenges in Care Coordination

• Preventable Hospitalizations; Avoidable Emergency Department Visits; Potentially Preventable Readmissions; and Results of Emergency Department Diversion Programs: Stacey Eccleston, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (PDF)  file size 1MB
• Lois Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Health Care Division (PDF) 

Expert Witness: Relational Coordination in Healthcare

• Jody Hoffer Gittell, Ph.D., Professor of Management, Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Director of the Relational Coordination Research Collaborative, and Acting Faculty Director of the MIT Leadership Center (PDF)  file size 10MB

Expert Witness: Role of Government and Market in Reducing Health Care Costs

• Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D., President, Center for Studying Health System Change (PDF)  file size 1MB

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