Webinar - Measuring Primary Care Investment: Overcoming Policy and Operational Issues

The panelists on this webinar are thought leaders in work to advance the measurement of primary care spending – at the state, federal and international level. 

Increasing our utilization of primary care will lead to lower costs, higher patient satisfaction, fewer hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and lower mortality. Unfortunately, it is difficult to measure actual primary care spend, which makes it difficult to quantify primary care investment and clearly demonstrate these positive associated outcomes.

The panelists will describe recent work including: 

Ongoing efforts to define and measure primary care – including important initiatives at the state and international level
State-level collaborations to generate a common primary care measure set and a possible code set for measuring primary care spending using claims data
Establishing a goal for investment in primary health care spending both internationally and in the United States
 
Speakers
Rachel Block
Program Officer
Milbank Memorial Fund
 
Jeffrey F. Markuns, MD
Deputy Director 
Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank Group, and World Health Organization)

Robert Philips, MD, M.S.P.H
VP of Research and Policy
American Board of Family Medicine 

Moderator
Ann Greiner
President & CEO
PCPCC

Ann Greiner, MCP

President & Chief Executive Officer, Primary Care Collaborative
Ann Greiner serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), where she is focused on defining and implementing an advocacy, research and education agenda that furthers comprehensive, team-based and patient-centered primary care.  read more

Jeff Markuns, MD, EdM

Deputy Director, Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI)
Jeff Markuns is the Deputy Director of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI - www.phcperformanceinitiative.org), a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization and the World Bank group, in collaboration with Ariadne Labs and Results for development. Dr. Markuns helps to lead PHCPI’s Secretariat in promoting the use of data and measurement to support further improvements in primary health care, particularly in low and middle income countries. read more

Rachel Block

Program Officer, Milbank Memorial Fund
Rachel Block is a program officer at the Fund. An independent consultant who worked for the Fund and other organizations focusing on federal and state health policy issues, she has served in numerous executive roles in the public and private sectors, including spearheading development of New York state’s health information technology strategy as deputy commissioner for Health Information Technology Transformation in the New York State Department of Health and as the founding executive director of the New York eHealth Collaborative. Ms. Block has also worked at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where she held several senior management positions directing policy development and operations for Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance, and federal survey and certification programs. read more

Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH

Founding Executive Director, The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care, American Board of Family Medicine Foundation
Robert Phillips is a graduate of the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Florida College of Medicine, where he graduated with honors for special distinction. He completed training in family medicine at the University of Missouri in 1998, followed by a two-year fellowship in health services research and public health. After fellowship, Dr. Phillips became assistant director of the Robert Graham Center, Washington D.C., and from 2004 to 2012, he served as its director. In 2012, he moved to the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) as Vice President for Research and Policy, where he led the launch of a national clinical registry. Dr. read more
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