WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: September 27, 2012 Featuring: Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Population Health, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Palmer “Pal” Evans, MD, former Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Tucson Medical Center (TMC) John Friend, Vice President Business Development & Associate General Counsel, TMC Healthcare; Executive Director, Arizona Connected Care, LLC One of the best-kept secrets about US health care this election season is the degree to which change and transformation are coming, no matter what happens in November. You won’t hear “global payment” or Medicare Shared Savings Program mentioned as often as “individual mandate” in the current political debate, but ask anyone leading a health care organization today which issue keeps them up at night, and it’s definitely payment reform. In general terms, the entire system is shifting from paying for volume – lots of procedures – to paying for value, or how well patients are cared for over time