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Background and Purpose
The Delivery System Committee is chartered to make recommendations to create a “high-performing health systems in Oregon” including issues on cost-containment/control, end-of-life care, payment reform, quality and revitalizing primary care, managing chronic diseases, health information technology, cost and quality transparency, new clinical technologies, and public health and prevention. The current draft recommendations include:
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Defining and requiring transparency on costs, quality and revenue;
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Creating payment systems that reward integrated health homes.
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Creation of a new Quality Institute
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The Committee’s draft cost-containment strategies include:
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Reducing pharmaceutical spending
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Require transparency for payers and providers on costs, profits, margins
and reserves.
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Administrative simplification
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Use of patient decision aids and end-of-life care
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Creation of a Quality Institute
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Evidenced-based practices
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Health Information Technology.
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Accountable Care Districts (ACD) - While initial discussions of ACDs focused on data gathering and analysis. Newer recommendations envision ACDs encompassing local planning, resource utilization and global budgeting. Proponents say this is not a regulatory approach but a collaborative community process.
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