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2016 Payer Forum: "Implementing Quality and Value in HCT" View summary (PDF) and slides:
- Implementing Quality and Value in HCT
- Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Moving Beyond Survival to the Patient's Perspective
- Quality of Life after HCT - What can an outcomes registry do?
- Quality Across a Network of HCT Programs
- Corrective Action Strategies to Improve Care
- ASBMT Quality Outcomes Committee
- Center Specific Outcomes Reporting
- Value Based Purchasing & Access
- Brass Tracks: The Money Problem
- Center Specific Outcomes Reporting
- Moving Forward
- Brass Tracks: HCT & The Money Problem
- Implementing Quality & Value in HCT WrapUp
2015 Payer Forum: "Aligning Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplantation"
Summary to come. View slides:
- Meeting Orientation (PDF)
- Linking Registries, EHRs and Comprehensive Care Programs to Drive Quality in Cancer Care (PDF)
- A Perspective on Transparency (PDF)
- Overview of ASH Quality Improvement Activities (PDF)
- Facilitating Care Improvement Practices via Accreditation (PDF)
- Center Outcomes Reporting in HCT - Progression Recommendations from the Center Outcome Forum 2014 (PDF)
- History and Status of Quality Measurement in SCT (PDF)
- HCT and the Costs of Care - Improving the Value of HCT - A System Perspective (PDF)
- The Medical Neighborhood - Value of the Home - Neighbor Relationship (PDF)
- Creating High-Value Health Care in HCT - Moving Forward Together (PDF)
2014 Payer Forum: “Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplantation”
View summary (PDF) and slides:
- Defining Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplant (PDF)
- Applying the Triple Aim to Specialty Care: Understanding Cost,Quality and the Patient Experience in Complex Care Settings (PDF)
- Measurement Evolution (PDF)
- Center Outcomes Reporting and the CIBMTR (PDF)
- Incorporating Clinical Outcomes into Accreditation Requirements(PDF)
- Quality Through Benchmarking: Leveraging UHC Data Capabilities (PDF)
- Transplant Center Survey (PDF)
- The Integration of Palliative Care in Stem Cell Transplantation:A New Language for Palliative Care (PDF)
- Creative Thinking: Bundled Payment Models in Complex MedicalSettings (PDF)
- Quality and Value in Stem Cell Transplant: What do employers andpayers want to see? (PDF)
- Defining Value and Quality in Stem Cell Transplant Beyond theDollars (PDF)
- Pay for Performance in Blood and Marrow Transplant (PDF)
- Moving Forward: What’s Next? (PDF)
- Better Than Expected: City of Hope Case Study (PDF)
2013 Payer Forum: “Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant: A Forum on Quality, Transparency, Cost and Value”
View summary (PDF) and slides:
View summary (PDF) and slides:
- Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Costs and Trends (PDF)
- Moving Forward:Helping Employers and Other Payers Make Informed Decisions about Benefit Design (PDF)
- Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network (PDF)
- Determining the “Real” Costs of Transplant: The Health Services Research Perspective (PDF)
- Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant: How to Appeal to Self Funded& Stop Loss Markets (PDF)
- Center specific outcome reporting for HCT 2013 Quality, Transparency and Patient Safety in BMT (PDF)
- BMT Community Report to Third-Party Payers (PDF)
Other Resources
- Standardization of Terminology for Episodes of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Patient Transplant Care: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2013
- Recommended Benefit Plan Design (PDF)
- Standardized Transplant Authorization Form (PDF) for Transplant Centers and Payors
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