Harnessing Evidence to Redesign Primary Care

The Milbank Memorial Fund & Mathematica

Thursday Mar 24, 2016 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm EDT

United States

Individual practices, private payers, and state and federal governments are all making significant investments to improve the quality of primary health care and achieve better health outcomes, especially for patients with complex needs. Sustainable patient-centered medical homes were among the first of these efforts, but is there strong enough evidence for policymakers to decide whether this innovative model is working?

As the health care industry evolves and as complex new service delivery models are tested, how can we keep pace by designing approaches that help us to evaluate the true impacts of the models? The Milbank Memorial Fund, through its Multi-State Collaborative, has worked with programs in 17 states and regions to pursue the answers to these questions. To better understand the impacts of these programs, the Fund commissioned Mathematica to report on their evaluations.

Join Mathematica’s Center on Health Care Effectiveness and the Milbank Memorial Fund on March 24th, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. (ET) for a health policy forum. We will present practical strategies from the new report for improving the strength of evidence from ongoing evaluations. Expert panelists who represent the perspectives of providers and state and federal governments will also talk about the kind of evidence they need if they are to understand the implications of primary care transformation for both the general population and people with chronic care needs.

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All in-person attendees are invited to a cocktail reception immediately following the forum.

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Ann O'Malley, MD

Senior Fellow, Mathematica

Ann S. O’Malley has over twenty years of experience doing primary care health services research. She conducts both qualitative and quantitative studies with a focus on improving support for primary care practices to provide more coordinated and comprehensive care, particularly for patients with multiple chronic conditions. read more

Christopher F. Koller

President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Christopher Koller is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund. The Fund is a 114 year operating foundation that improves population health by connecting leaders with the best information and experience. Before joining the Fund, he served the state of Rhode Island as the country’s first health insurance commissioner, an appointment he held from March of 2005 through June of 2013. Under Mr. Koller’s leadership, the RI Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was nationally recognized for its rate review process and its efforts to use insurance regulation to promote payment reform, primary care revitalization, and delivery system transformation. The Office was also one of the lead agencies in implementing the Affordable Care Act in Rhode Island. Prior to serving as health insurance commissioner, Mr. read more

Lisa Dulsky Watkins, MD

Director, Milbank Memorial Fund’s Multi-State Collaborative

Lisa Dulsky Watkins, MD, is the former Associate Director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health at the Department of Vermont Health Access, and one of the founding members of the Milbank Memorial Fund-supported Multi-State Collaborative. read more

Nancy McCall

Randall Brown, PhD

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Randall Brown is an expert in research design and health care policy. Brown is nationally known for his evaluations of programs that are designed to manage disease and coordinate care for Medicare beneficiaries, as well as his studies of long-term care and Medicare managed care. Brown was the senior author of a paper on care coordination, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which was awarded Best Paper in 2009 by both AcademyHealth and the National Institute for Health Care Management. He is currently leading two major evaluations for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—the evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, a program to improve primary care; and the evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards, Round 2. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin. read more

Renee Mentnech

Director of the Research and Rapid Cycle Evaluations Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Renee Mentnech has been with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) since 1988, and has served the agency in a variety of positions including as a Social Science Research analyst, Special Assistant to the Office Director, and as a manager for the last 17 years. She is a nurse by training and has a graduate degree in Health Policy from the University of Maryland. Currently, Mentnech is the Director of the Research and Rapid Cycle Evaluations Group; Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The Research and Evaluation Group includes a staff of over 40 Masters and PhD level economists, health services researchers, epidemiologists, sociologists, pharmacists, and other clinicians. Mentnech provides leadership and executive direction within CMS for a wide range of health care financing research activities. read more

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Christopher F. Koller

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