Committee on the Status of Payment Reform Legislation

Introduction
Meeting Schedule and Materials
Membership
Committee Readings
 
Introduction

The Committee on the Status of Payment Reform Legislation, a committee of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council, was charged with reviewing a draft outline of legislation to implement comprehensive payment reform in Massachusetts.  The committee solicited input from interested stakeholders and experts. The goal of the committee was to make recommendations about key decision points to the full Council in order to inform comprehensive payment reform legislation.


Meeting Schedule and Materials

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Overview of Health Care Quality and Cost CouncilCommittee on the Status of Payment Reform Legislation (PPT) 
• Payment Reform In the Context of the Roadmap to Cost Containment and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPT) 

Wednesday, September 22nd

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, The Basics of Accountable Care Organizations (PPT)  file size 1MB
• Committee on the Status of Payment Reform Legislation Work Plan and Timeline (PDF) 
• Process for providing feedback (PPT) 

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Establishment and Regulation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), presented by Julia Feldman, Esq., Center for Health Law and Economics Commonwealth Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School (PPT) 

Wednesday, October 20th
 

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Establishment and Regulation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Section 1 presented Julia Feldman, J.D. (PPT) 
• Committee on the Status of Payment Reform Legislation: Timeline and logistics (PPT) 

Wednesday, November 3rd

• Agenda (PDF) 
• New Oversight Entity (OE) Section 2 presented by Julia Feldman, J.D., Principal Associate, Center for Health Law and Economics, University of Massachusetts Medical School (PPT) 

Wednesday, November 17th

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Role of Oversight Entity/ Establishment and Regulation of Alternative Methodologies for Payments to ACOs presentation by Julia Feldman, J.D., Principal Associate, University of Massachusetts Medical School (PPT) 
• Committee on the Status of Payment Reform Legislation: Timeline and logistics (PPT) 

Wednesday, December 1st

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Consensus Points; Alternative Payment Methodologies and Additional Issues, presentation by Julia Feldman, J.D. (PPT) 

Wednesday, January 5th
9:30 am-11 am
 

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Minutes (PDF) 
• Overview Public Forum presented by Jessica Moschella, MPH, Administrative Director HCQCC (PPT) 
• Goals of Payment Reform Legislation presented by Julia Feldman, J.D., Center for Health Law and Economics, Commonwealth Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School (PPT) 
  

Wednesday, February 16th
12:30 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
1 Ashburton Place, 21st Floor

• Agenda (PDF) 
• Goals for Payment Reform Legislation (Pending revisions based on discussion at February 16, 2011 Committee Meeting) (PDF) 

Membership:
Committee on the status of payment reform legislation

Committee Readings

• The Case for Integrated Delivery Systems by Francis J. Crosson, M.D., NEJM 361;14, nejm.org, october 1, 2009 (PDF) 
  
• Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver? by Marsha Gold, Mathematica Policy Brief, January 2010 (PDF)  file size 1MB file size 3MB
  
• How to Create Accountable Care Organizations, First Edition, September 7, 2009, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (PDF)  file size 1MB
  
• How The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation Should Test Accountable Care Organizations, by By Stephen M. Shortell, Lawrence P. Casalino, and Elliott S. Fisher, Health Affairs (PDF) 
  
• New Approaches for Paying Providers Will Change the ORganization of Healthcare Services by Stuart H. Altman, et al., Healthcare Trends and Implications 2010-2015 (PDF) 
  
• Massachusetts Payment Reform: An Overview of Critical Foundational Issues, by The Massachusetts Hospital Association (PDF)  file size 1MB file size 2MB
  

This information is provided by the Health Care Quality and Cost Council.