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National Press FoundationWhy Pursue Health Reform –
One Provider’s View
National Press FoundationWhy Pursue Health Reform –
One Provider’s View
Robert K. SmoldtMayo Clinic
November 14, 2007
Robert K. SmoldtMayo Clinic
November 14, 2007
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Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
• Uninsured• Uninsured
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Ian Morrison*Ian Morrison*
“The U.S. is the only country where
owning a gunis a right and
getting health care is a privilege”
“The U.S. is the only country where
owning a gunis a right and
getting health care is a privilege”
*Ian Morrison quote from Mayo Clinic/RANDHealth Reform Forum, March 6, 2007
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Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
• Uninsured
• Variable quality
• Uninsured
• Variable quality
70.270.2MinnesotaMinnesota Mortality Amenableto Health Care
Mortality Amenableto Health Care
International variation, 1998International variation, 1998
Deaths before age 75that are potentially
preventable with timely and appropriate
medical care
Deaths before age 75that are potentially
preventable with timely and appropriate
medical care
Source: Commonwealth FundNational Scorecard on U.S. Health
System Performance, 2006
Source: Commonwealth FundNational Scorecard on U.S. Health
System Performance, 2006
Deaths per 100,000 populationDeaths per 100,000 population
8181
8484
8888
8888
8888
9292
9797
9797
9999
106106
107107
109109
109109
115115
129129
130130132132
7575
114.7114.7
00 5050 100100 150150
FranceFrance
JapanJapan
SpainSpain
SwedenSweden
ItalyItaly
AustraliaAustralia
CanadaCanada
NorwayNorway
NetherlandsNetherlands
GreeceGreece
GermanyGermany
AustriaAustria
New ZealandNew Zealand
DenmarkDenmark
U.S.U.S.
FinlandFinland
IrelandIreland
U.K.U.K.
PortugalPortugal
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Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
• Uninsured
• Variable quality
• Disintegrated,fragmented care
• Uninsured
• Variable quality
• Disintegrated,fragmented care
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Why is coordinated,integrated care needed?
Why is coordinated,integrated care needed?
• Medicare patients with 4+ chronic conditions are what % of total cost?
68%
• Yearly per person average• 13 physicians• 50 prescriptions
• Medicare patients with 4+ chronic conditions are what % of total cost?
68%
• Yearly per person average• 13 physicians• 50 prescriptions
Sources: WSJ, Feb 8, 2006; Archives of IM, Nov 11, 2002
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Efficient Resource UseICU Days for Decedent in Last Six Months
Efficient Resource UseICU Days for Decedent in Last Six Months
% changeRegion Number integrated
avgIntegrated systems
Temple, TX 1.8Rochester, MN 2.5Salt Lake City, UT 2.1
Integrated avg 2.1 Base
U.S. 3.3 +57%
Miami 6.6 +214%
LA 6.4 +204%
Philadelphia 5.3 +152%
Houston 4.3 +105%
% changeRegion Number integrated
avgIntegrated systems
Temple, TX 1.8Rochester, MN 2.5Salt Lake City, UT 2.1
Integrated avg 2.1 Base
U.S. 3.3 +57%
Miami 6.6 +214%
LA 6.4 +204%
Philadelphia 5.3 +152%
Houston 4.3 +105%Source: Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care website, Sep 26, 2007
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Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
Fundamental Issuesfrom a Provider’s Perspective
• Uninsured
• Variable quality
• Disintegrated,fragmented care
• High cost
• Uninsured
• Variable quality
• Disintegrated,fragmented care
• High cost
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Is U.S. only place where health care costs are rising?
Is U.S. only place where health care costs are rising?
Health spending per person in “real terms,”average annual % increase 1970-2002
Health spending per person in “real terms,”average annual % increase 1970-2002
Source: “The Health of Nations,” Economist, July 17, 2004
4.0%4.0%OtherOECD
countries
OtherOECD
countries
4.4%4.4%
00 1.01.0 2.02.0 3.03.0 4.04.0 5.05.0
U.S.U.S.
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Variability in EfficiencyVariability in Efficiency
Leapfrog’s Honor Roll 39 U.S. teaching hospitals (based primarily on process measures)
Dartmouth data on cost per Medicare enrollee in last 6 months of life*
• Most efficient hospital
$15,800• Least efficient
$45,600
Leapfrog’s Honor Roll 39 U.S. teaching hospitals (based primarily on process measures)
Dartmouth data on cost per Medicare enrollee in last 6 months of life*
• Most efficient hospital
$15,800• Least efficient
$45,600*Dartmouth Atlas, 2006(?)
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A view that health spending does yield benefits…
A view that health spending does yield benefits…
NY Times, August 22, 2006:“Making Health Care the Enginethat Drives the Economy”
“By 2030, predicts Robert Fogel, Nobel Laureate at the University of Chicago, about 25% of GDP will be spent in health care ‘making it the driving force of the economy.’ Dr. Fogel is not alarmed. Americans can afford it. He explains,“At the end of the 19th century, food, clothing and shelter accounted for 80% of the family budget. Today it is about a third.”
NY Times, August 22, 2006:“Making Health Care the Enginethat Drives the Economy”
“By 2030, predicts Robert Fogel, Nobel Laureate at the University of Chicago, about 25% of GDP will be spent in health care ‘making it the driving force of the economy.’ Dr. Fogel is not alarmed. Americans can afford it. He explains,“At the end of the 19th century, food, clothing and shelter accounted for 80% of the family budget. Today it is about a third.”
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A view that health spending does yield benefits…
A view that health spending does yield benefits…
NY Times, August 22, 2006:“Making Health Care the Enginethat Drives the Economy”
Says Robert E. Hall (Stanford) andCharles I. Jones (University of California, Berkley), “We have to spend our money on something.So we get older and richer, which is more valuable: a third car, yet another television, more clothing—or an extra yearof your life?”
NY Times, August 22, 2006:“Making Health Care the Enginethat Drives the Economy”
Says Robert E. Hall (Stanford) andCharles I. Jones (University of California, Berkley), “We have to spend our money on something.So we get older and richer, which is more valuable: a third car, yet another television, more clothing—or an extra yearof your life?”
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Mayo Clinic Health Policy CenterMayo Clinic Health Policy Center
Goal
• Influence stakeholders to implement substantive health care reformbefore 2011 that will preserve quality and availability of health care for all patients
Goal
• Influence stakeholders to implement substantive health care reformbefore 2011 that will preserve quality and availability of health care for all patients
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Top Issues from SymposiumTop Issues from Symposium
Baker Center – Univ. of TennesseeBaker Center – Univ. of Tennessee• Health insurance for all Americans• Health insurance for all Americans
• Improving effectiveness and efficiency
• Improving effectiveness and efficiency
• Improving integration of care• Improving integration of care
• Pay for value• Pay for value
Harvard Kennedy Health Policy CenterHarvard Kennedy Health Policy Center
RAND CorporationRAND Corporation
Dartmouth Evaluative Clinical SciencesDartmouth Evaluative Clinical Sciences
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Individual Ownershipof Insurance for All
Individual Ownershipof Insurance for All
Provide health insurance and access to basic health care for all Americans – regardlessof their ability to pay
• Require individual ownership of insurance
• Provide sliding-scale subsidies for those in need
• Create a simple mechanism (FEHBP) to coordinate insurance offerings
• Appoint an independent health board to define essential health care services
• Allow people the option to buy more coverage
Provide health insurance and access to basic health care for all Americans – regardlessof their ability to pay
• Require individual ownership of insurance
• Provide sliding-scale subsidies for those in need
• Create a simple mechanism (FEHBP) to coordinate insurance offerings
• Appoint an independent health board to define essential health care services
• Allow people the option to buy more coverage
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Are there models of this approach?Are there models of this approach?
NetherlandsNetherlands
FEHBPFEHBP
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Effectiveness and EfficiencyEffectiveness and Efficiency
Increase quality and patient satisfaction.Decrease medical errors, costs and waste.
• Develop a common definition of value
• Measure and display outcomes, patient satisfaction scores and costs as a whole
• Create a trusted mechanism to synthesize scientific, clinical and medical information
• Reward consumers for choosing high-quality health plans and providers
• Hold all sectors accountable for reducingwaste and inefficiencies
Increase quality and patient satisfaction.Decrease medical errors, costs and waste.
• Develop a common definition of value
• Measure and display outcomes, patient satisfaction scores and costs as a whole
• Create a trusted mechanism to synthesize scientific, clinical and medical information
• Reward consumers for choosing high-quality health plans and providers
• Hold all sectors accountable for reducingwaste and inefficiencies
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Improving IntegrationImproving Integration
Patient care services must be coordinated across people, functions, activities, sites and timeto increase value
• Center care around the needs of the patient
• Form coordinated systems to deliver effective and appropriate care to patients
• Develop incentives to encourage teamwork
• Increase support for health care delivery science
• Provide accurate information so patients can make informed decisions
Patient care services must be coordinated across people, functions, activities, sites and timeto increase value
• Center care around the needs of the patient
• Form coordinated systems to deliver effective and appropriate care to patients
• Develop incentives to encourage teamwork
• Increase support for health care delivery science
• Provide accurate information so patients can make informed decisions
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Mayo/Dartmouth ForumMayo/Dartmouth Forum
Principles for Payment Reform
• Payment systems should be designed to provide patients with no less than the care they need and no more than fully informed, cost-conscious patients would want
• Pay providers based on value –measurable outcomes, safety and service compared to the cost over time
Principles for Payment Reform
• Payment systems should be designed to provide patients with no less than the care they need and no more than fully informed, cost-conscious patients would want
• Pay providers based on value –measurable outcomes, safety and service compared to the cost over time
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Mayo/Dartmouth ForumMayo/Dartmouth ForumProvider scores on the “importance of continuing
development of the payment approach”Provider scores on the “importance of continuing
development of the payment approach”
00 22 44 66 88 1010Score (10 = very important)Score (10 = very important)
FFS with shared savingsFFS with shared savings
Overall capitationOverall capitation
FFS with outcomes rewardFFS with outcomes reward
5.65.6
5.85.8
5.95.9
Mini-capitationMini-capitation
Shared decision makingShared decision making
Chronic disease coordinator (medical home)
Chronic disease coordinator (medical home)
7.57.5
7.67.6
8.68.6
Present Medicare P4P based onprocess delivered by individual provider
Present Medicare P4P based onprocess delivered by individual provider 1.81.8
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Dr. Len M. Nichols(New America Foundation) testimony to U.S.
Committee of the Budget, June 26, 2007
Dr. Len M. Nichols(New America Foundation) testimony to U.S.
Committee of the Budget, June 26, 2007
“The secret is not, however, to re-jigger 10,000 prices in 3,000 counties so that we
get them ‘right’ once and for all (until medical knowledge or technology or input prices change again). The secret is to…
bundle ever-larger sets of services into one payment, which frees clinicians and
providers to find the most efficient way to deliver health.”
“The secret is not, however, to re-jigger 10,000 prices in 3,000 counties so that we
get them ‘right’ once and for all (until medical knowledge or technology or input prices change again). The secret is to…
bundle ever-larger sets of services into one payment, which frees clinicians and
providers to find the most efficient way to deliver health.”
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Hypothetical example of problem with line item pricing emphasis
Hypothetical example of problem with line item pricing emphasis
MDTeam A
$7,200
0.5
$18,000
2,500
$45.0 M
MDTeam A
$7,200
0.5
$18,000
2,500
$45.0 M
MDTeam B
$6,500
1.2
$21,000
4,400
$92.4 M
MDTeam B
$6,500
1.2
$21,000
4,400
$92.4 M
Coronary Angioplasty
Fee
ICU days
Cost per episode
No. per 1 million population
Cost per 1 million population
Coronary Angioplasty
Fee
ICU days
Cost per episode
No. per 1 million population
Cost per 1 million population
Cost of B as % of A
-10%
+17%
+105%
Cost of B as % of A
-10%
+17%
+105%
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Total Cost =Price x Use Rate
Total Cost =Price x Use Rate
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Price Controls: Grayson’s Maxim Price Controls: Grayson’s Maxim
“Add (price) controls and you will see ‘new’ services appear. Expect ‘unbundling’ of services with the price of individual units, when added together, totaling more than the original services.”
C. Jackson Grayson Jr. Chair, U.S. Price Commission (1971-1973)
“Add (price) controls and you will see ‘new’ services appear. Expect ‘unbundling’ of services with the price of individual units, when added together, totaling more than the original services.”
C. Jackson Grayson Jr. Chair, U.S. Price Commission (1971-1973)
Source: Wall Street Journal, 29 Mar 1993
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Annual Rates of Increase in Physician Fees and Expenditures/Fee-for-Service BeneficiaryAnnual Rates of Increase in Physician Fees
and Expenditures/Fee-for-Service Beneficiary
Source: Letter to Medicare Payment Advisory Commissionfrom Herb B. Kuhn, Director, Center for Medicare Management, CMS 4/7/06
as referenced by Dr. Stuart Guterman, The Commonwealth Fund
3.4
-0.7
7.4 7.4
-2
0
2
4
6
8
3.4
-0.7
7.4 7.4
-2
0
2
4
6
8
Fees
SGR-relatedexpenditures/fee-for-servicebeneficiary
Fees
SGR-relatedexpenditures/fee-for-servicebeneficiary
Annual percent change
Annual percent change
1997-20011997-2001 2001-20052001-2005
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Price Controls: Grayson’s MaximPrice Controls: Grayson’s Maxim
“No matter how simply you begin, your controls will get more complex and voluminous.We started with…3 ½ pagesof regulations and ended with 1,534. In an effort to correct one inequity, you create another.”
C. Jackson Grayson Jr. Chair, U.S. Price Commission (1971-1973)
“No matter how simply you begin, your controls will get more complex and voluminous.We started with…3 ½ pagesof regulations and ended with 1,534. In an effort to correct one inequity, you create another.”
C. Jackson Grayson Jr. Chair, U.S. Price Commission (1971-1973)
Source: Wall Street Journal, 29 Mar 1993
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Patient/Public Input – Focus GroupsPatient/Public Input – Focus Groups
• Six sessions in Atlanta, Cincinnati,and Los Angeles with chronic disease patients
• Reviewed cornerstones of MCHPC recommendations without identifying them with Mayo Clinic: Insurancefor all, coordinated care, value
• Six sessions in Atlanta, Cincinnati,and Los Angeles with chronic disease patients
• Reviewed cornerstones of MCHPC recommendations without identifying them with Mayo Clinic: Insurancefor all, coordinated care, value
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Public Views OverallPublic Views Overall
• Cornerstones accepted when explainedbut are not self evident
• When changing delivery system,concerned about major shifts• Recommend a phased approach – try
new things, see if work, then put in play more broadly
• People are dissatisfied with U.S. health system, BUT are happy with their providers• Change could make things worse
for them
• Cornerstones accepted when explainedbut are not self evident
• When changing delivery system,concerned about major shifts• Recommend a phased approach – try
new things, see if work, then put in play more broadly
• People are dissatisfied with U.S. health system, BUT are happy with their providers• Change could make things worse
for them
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YOUR VOICE, NEW VISION ProgramYOUR VOICE, NEW VISION Program
• Nine city tour to collect letters and film and record “woman/man on the street” views
• Mayo organized, but other partners:
• Partners• American Hospital Association• American Medical Group Association• Kaiser Permanente
• Nine city tour to collect letters and film and record “woman/man on the street” views
• Mayo organized, but other partners:
• Partners• American Hospital Association• American Medical Group Association• Kaiser Permanente
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Mayo Clinic National Symposiumon Health Care Reform
Mayo Clinic National Symposiumon Health Care Reform
• Brief review of forum principles
• Review/analyze major health reform proposals from presidential candidates
• Identify/prioritize actions that different sectors can take to contribute to positive health care reform
• Begin creating an action plan for change
• Brief review of forum principles
• Review/analyze major health reform proposals from presidential candidates
• Identify/prioritize actions that different sectors can take to contribute to positive health care reform
• Begin creating an action plan for change
March 9-11, 2008Leesburg, VA
March 9-11, 2008Leesburg, VA