This webinar features Candace Shaffer from Purdue University and Natalie Roberts from Monarch Beverage Company discussing how their companies have leveraged the RAND Hospital Price Transparency findings in their health care strategies.
Ryan Olmstead, MPH
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For the past 20 years, I have helped employers with their healthcare strategies and purchasing decisions. For the first 12 years at Mercer and Aon, I advised employers directly on their various benefits offerings, soliciting quotes for health and other coverages and providing hands-on support. Over the past eight years at Catalyst for Payment Reform, I’ve educated and advised employers on healthcare purchasing dynamics and innovative strategies to regain control of cost and quality of care.
This site links to my writings, podcast interviews, original research, tools, and events I’ve hosted over the last several years.
- blog (16)
- case study (5)
- podcast (14)
- publications (8)
- research (5)
- tools (12)
- webinars (17)
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With healthcare a large part of an employer’s budget, embracing big data is more important than ever.
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Genetic testing presents bioethical issues in benefits.
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Given the effort for purchasers to implement innovative benefit and network designs, they must also have a communications strategy. CPR worked with large purchasers and Benz Communications on this Toolkit.
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Find out how Self-Insured Schools of California (SISC) achieved a significant reduction in its cost trend and PMPM savings by overhauling its pharmacy benefit, implementing a waste free formulary.
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Here are recommended questions for your upcoming renewals.
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This How-To Guide helps employer-purchasers tackle substance use disorders. Various consequences of these diseases are likely impacting your organization’s health care costs, workplace safety and productivity.
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What do the letters V, Q, P, and D have in common? Besides being the remaining letters in your Scrabble tile holder, they also can make or break your health care strategy, individually and collectively. Hear us out below.
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Pharmacy spend eats up 20 cents for every health care dollar a purchaser spends. Purchasers are very concerned about the high price of prescription drug costs, seeking ways to increase the value of their pharmacy dollars.
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